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Boring Car Trivia volume 2
£5.70
Sniff Petrol is back with another pocket-sized compendium of arcane car facts, guaranteed to repel and appal friends and family alike. If you simply can’t rest until you know what Land Rover almost called the Defender and which was the first car with xenon headlights then this is the book for you. The sequel to the Triumph Acclaimed Medium-sized Book of Boring Car Trivia, Boring Car Trivia volume 2 is packed with even more obscure info and is guaranteed to have you nodding off within minutes.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Independently published (26 Nov. 2020) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 101 pages |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8572072303 |
| Dimensions | 13.34 x 0.66 x 20.32 cm |
by Hedders
Don your bobble hats, Richard Porter (a.k.a ‘The Fourth Amigo’) returns with another definitive slab of cold hard automotive trivia.
In this second volume you will:
• Finally understand why Ferdinand Piëch carried a small tool set with him wherever he travelled.
• Discover why a stationary-wielding man named Peter Schultz is one of the greatest unsung heroes of the automotive world.
• Revel in the knowledge that 1.4mm is the perfect length of travel for a piece of switchgear and in what car you will experience such automotive euphoria.
Some additional Porter trivia :
A renowned fan of Midlands-based car manufacturing – Porter boasts several associated brand logos tattooed about his person.
• In 2014, Porter began maintaining a full beard in order to cover up a tattoo of the Jaguar ‘leaper’ which covers the entirety of his left cheek.
• In an effort to acquiesce the Chinese takeover of MG Rover in 2005, Porter had ‘Vitesse’ tattooed, in Mandarin script, around the circumference of his navel.
• The only people to have seen his ‘Longbridge Longship’ Rover tattoo are his wife, his GP and a travelling salesman named Ken, who inadvertently caught sight of it whilst at Knutsford motorway services in 1998.
by Ronnie Whelan
Disappointingly interesting. Having read the first installment of boring car trivia and been agast at how interesting it is, I was hoping Mr. Petrol had learnt his lesson and made volume 2 extra boring. But no.
At first I was encouraged by the sheer tedium of Clarkson’s forward, but as soon as I started on the actual book I found myself stimulated and eager for more.
Try again, Porter, and next time it’d better be dull or I shall be writing a sternly worded letter to the Daily Mail.
Pah!
by Simon Rockman
I bought this as a Christmas present for my sister to give to me. That was far easier than explaining what I wanted for Christmas to her. So last week I gave her the book and said “Wrap this up and give it to me for Christmas”.
Thing is, she didn’t. She started reading it. She has no interest in cars. She doesn’t drive and thinks all cars are much of a muchness. She lives with my similarly-minded mother. They both love the book. They’ve started reading bits out over the phone to me. So what I’ll get for Christmas is a pre-loved book, two careful readers, in THE BEST COLOUR.
by E. Gallagher
Perfect for reading allowed to guest who have overstayed their welcom ????
by Amazon Customer
Sink in to the fine Corinthian leather of this executive fact-car, as it whisks you to the furthest flock-lined door pockets of a mind possessed with knowing only the most achingly arcane mundanities of late-70s British Leyland trim options.
Pull purposefully into the service station of inane knowledge and fill your mind-lungs to the brim with 14.1 gallons of tedious inanity.
Hitch up the hems of your insight-slacks and slip your wisdom-hooves into the gold-buckled driving loafers of giddy motoring miscellany.
Once the sat-nav of absurdity has delivered you to your cerebral destination, you can slam the door on this gleaming trivia-mobile, and crunch down the gravel driveway of intellectual contentment, knowing there are no more automotive-minutiae-related worlds to conquer. Until the next one.
by Nathan Quick
I really enjoyed the completely random facts that are in this book. I couldn’t put it down and annoyingly finished on day 2 of our holiday.
Best order the other two!
by Ian Barker
There is a school of thought which says that all information is valuable and that no fact, however trivial or arcane, is completely useless. Once again Mr Petrol sets out to disprove this theory with a book of car facts.
As with the previous volume you’ll find loads of things here you never knew – and arguably never wanted to know. But if you’re enough of a car anorak you will also find a few things that will make you marvel that your brain has chosen to devote a part of its storage capacity to, say, a fact about Citroen AX door bins, when it could of held onto something more useful like the date of your anniversary.
by Amazon Customer
Brought as a gift great book he really enjoyed it