Morning, I hope you are well. All not bad here, although half term is about to begin and all our plans for running into the lovely British countryside and leaving our kids there have been scuppered. I am sure we are not alone. Might get baking again. Or start tunnelling in the garden.
So, today I'm launching the ALL NEW TRUNK BOOK. This is the next in the Jonny Trunk / Fuel series, a fab follow up to Own Label and Wrappers Delight. This nostalgic new book all started when I was a kid, when I first started collecting car brochures. I used to pester local garages into giving me brochures to their new cars. I used to write to car companies for brochures, used to stand on the local bypass at the weekend waiting for rare cars to drive past. It was my first real obsession.
This has now manifested itself in Auto Erotica. It's a sexy new book all about the sexy car brochures that sold us our cars, back in the 60s, 70s and 80s. My collection of beautiful period car brochures will be turned into a book full of amazing and rarely seen graphics, superb photography and brilliant creative ideas. And of course there will be brilliant old cars from that era at every turn. It's the first time a book has been made about this forgotten ephermeral corner of motoring.
Just like Wrappers Delight we are attempting to fund the book via Kickstarter. Here is a link to the page. Worth looking at for the groovy film we have made.
It would be amazing to get this book off the ground. So please do have a look, there are some great rewards available including a drive out with me in my little drophead Triumph (with period mods no less). And if you know anyone into "old motors", let them know too.
I'm now off to go and hide until the book is funded.
Thanks for listening as always.
Jonny