A rib-tickling stroll through family cars from the ’50s to the ’80s with the emphasis on cars which your good old dad would have driven. Solid and dependable — just like dad — the cars surveyed may not have been the most exciting vehicles, but they’re the ones that appealed to the old man.

=Of course, even dads could be smitten by a pretty face — hence the inclusion of the Triumph Stag — but, in the end, it’s the plain-Jane everyday saloons that win over the day, and this book has a whole section on the ultimate dad’s car — the Cortina. Recommended bed-time reading for dads of all ages.

by Giles Chapman & Richard Porter
Review book supplied by the publisher
Review by James Black