There was a time, Jonny Trunk reminds us in the introduction to his new book, Auto Erotica, when cars had no electric windows, no sat navs, no central locking, no power steering and drivers had to de-ice the locks and radiator when it was freezing cold.
And cars back in this pre-digital age were ‘way, way more sexy’, he says.
Jonny sets out his evidence in the tome with a time-travel ‘grand tour’ through British car brochures from the 1960s