{"id":20488,"date":"2020-12-10T20:29:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/?p=20488"},"modified":"2020-12-10T20:29:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:29:56","slug":"back-to-the-seventies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/12\/10\/back-to-the-seventies\/","title":{"rendered":"BACK TO THE SEVENTIES"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There have been lots of superb book releases in 2020, which is great given that we all had a bit more time on our hands and also another sign of the renaissance of the hard copy publication!<\/p>\n

When considering my personal book of the year award there were several live wire candidates and until just recently it was a toss-up between Steve Saxty\u2019s brilliant book \u2018Secret Fords\u2019 or the great book on the life of the late John Haynes\u2026<\/p>\n

However, a late entry and just about snatching victory is Richard Heseltine\u2019s \u2018Excess All Areas\u2019. A well deserving winner even if this review is an attempt to appease Performance Publishing\u2019s Adam Wilkins as I\u2019m sure he\u2019s going to shout at me, as the review was due to make it into our book review section of the forthcoming January\/February 2020 issue of TKC Mag, but sadly because it deserved a long review there wasn\u2019t room for it! It will be in the March\/April issue, though.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve already said on these pages, any book on specialist cars is welcomed with open arms by me but when it\u2019s as good as this one and written by an expert on the subject like Richard then it is always going to be a winner.<\/p>\n

\u2018Excess All Areas \u2013 British Kit Cars of the 1970s\u2019 to give it its full title, is an informative and well-produced romp through a decade of anything went for our industry with some outlandish and often over ambitious attempts at car building as well as some of the most revered kitcars ever produced. A proper melting pot.<\/p>\n

Richard takes a light-hearted approach but the book is a fact laden gem with a layout harking back to the seventies, which I thought was a really clever\u00a0and incisive touch.<\/p>\n

The format is an A-Z one kicking off with the ABC Trimini and totalling around 170 makes and notable specials builders of the seventies within its 124-pages, written in an enjoyable style while still feeding those hungry for facts everything they could need to know about that decade in kitcar history.<\/p>\n

Well worth the \u00a327 asking price the book is available now from https:\/\/www.performancepublishing.co.uk\/excess-all-areas.html<\/a> ENDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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