Books

Anyone familiar with Richard Heseltine’s writing will know that the subject of this book is not just right up his street but also metaphorically parked in his garage: if it’s stylistically weird, of its time – or preferably out of it – and a one-off, then Richard is interested in it. Which begs the question: why has it taken so long for him to produce a book like this?

The, er, concept (sorry) is beautifully simple. Almost 200 show cars of the 1960s have been profiled year by year, each illustrated with period press and brochure shots. The text is written in Richard’s trademark snappy but authoritative style, with photo captions that are often subtly witty. So, for example, the Curtiss-Wright ‘Air-Car’ of 1960 is described