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We love TV, and we love our cars, but there's never been a book dedicated solely to cars made famous by television - until now.
From Knight Rider's trusty Firebird, to Lady Penelope's FAB1 and the unmistakable MC G15 van driven by the A-Team, TV Cars offers a lively and fond look at 50 all-time great shows and the iconic cars that they propelled to stardom.
More than being a simple roll call of famous vehicles, this is a thoroughly researched compendium of TV knowledge - allowing readers to discover how many Dodge Chargers were actually used on the Dukes of Hazzard and the TV Car that even made it onto a postage stamp, Inspector Morse's Jaguar MKII.
TV Cars also features a wealth of behind-the-scenes pictures - taken from other classic programmes such as The Avengers and Starsky and Hutch, cult comedy series such as Only Fools and Horses, and modern shows like Life on Mars and The Apprentice too.
Alongside its lavish colour photography, TV Cars contains a biography of each car, detailing its history, why it was chosen for the series, and an explanation of the key modifications made for filming.
These machines are part of the magic formula that made each programme a hit - sometimes receiving more fan mail than their illustrious human co-stars. TV Cars
now reveals what happened to them once the cameras stopped rolling, whilst providing an array of facts and anecdotes for car and TV buffs to treasure.
Author:
Giles Chapman has been a motoring journalist for over 25 years, and has extensive knowledge of automotive industry, history and culture.
He moved into magazine publishing in 1985 and by 1991 was editor of Classic & Sports Car, the world's best-selling classic car magazine.
Today, he contributes to national newspapers and motoring publications, and was voted Jeep Consumer Journalist of The Year in 2005 and BCA Feature Writer of The Year in 2008. He lives in Sevenoaks, Kent.
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