I hereby give you a chance to take a little bit influence on my next book projects and by suggesting a car you can also earn a spot in the credits. Hopefully you all know that i am a famous book writer and (blablabla...).

Okay i write books since 12 years, but the only book that was officially published at Amazon (yet) was Space Galaxies 1, but its not available in english. Sorry guys... https://www.amazon.de/Space-Galaxies-1-Ferne-Galaxien-ebook/dp/B013JSXY52?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&linkCode=ur2&site-redirect=de&tag=boweyobo-21

Currently i am doing "Space Galaxies 2" and "Space Galaxies 0", writing them in this order so i will finish this book series with the prequel. As a company was the unintentional bad villain in Space Galaxies 1, i created the fictional company Winter Industries, who builds everything: Cars, planes, big rigs, handkerchiefs.... It was an intentional parody of Mitsubishi and you might know why.

So what ideas can you give me?

1.) I am looking for a rubbish late 80s cars. Something like the Alfa Romeo Arna but please dont suggest any sports cars. I hate sports cars and only included one for the laughs. As i only base my car visually on it it doesnt matter in what country it was sold. Any other idea?

2.) This is a little bit harder. The scene takes place in July 1947 in some US desert (uh, hint-alarm!!) and i am looking for a military ambulance. Currently i have a Dodge WC-54 in mind. Is that a good idea?

And something funny about my book "Chinese Project: Above and Beyond" (also a Prequel): Its about a chinese spy agent and he drives a BAW B40 Special Edition. While on mission in foreign countries this chinese car can transform into a Jeep Wranger for example. So look at what the BAW B40 slightly resembles...

for rubbish car.... Dodge/Plymouth Omni/Horizon duo ? or the nice, beautiful Hyundai Pony ( or Excel ) maybe ?

As for BAW B40.... yeah, changing into a Wrangler should be quite easy...

Londsdale
Austin Ambassador

A 4x4 must be needed for this collection of 80s Rubbish so what about a Portugese UMM:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/65005481@N06/7924301318/

The UMM is so funny looking. Oh my god, i have to include that. Either as my rubbish 80s car the main character drives or as random traffic car that gets crashed. As it was sold in Europe, i can include it as traffic.

But i am open for more.

I have to admit: Generic cars are a bad idea, because how can i describe it? "A boxy car with four wheels and square head lights"? The less generic it is, the better it is. So Alfa Arna and Omni/Horizon are not good enough i think.

oh my....


What about...unconventionnal then ; Dodge Rampage

or did i went too far ?

I've just seen this thread and I've got to tell you all this:

I've been writing books for about two years or so, and my books always concern Baltic teenagers over a long period of time. Sometimes I even write a sequel to the book.
Here are the "Baltic books" I've written so far:

Untitled: Riian "Ryan" Anderson, Estonian-American, 15 and a diehard Sonic fan, ventures on a chaotic roadtrip across America. It took me eight months to write this, and it's basically a bunch of drab facts mixed with story, hence why it has 300 pages.

Maple syrup and a red Samara: A year after his misadventures in the US, Ryan ventures through Canada in a Canadian-spec Lada Samara, and we get to learn more about his Estonian past.

Miles' Miles: May 2000. Majdek "Miles" Avery, 15 and Belarusian-American, originally wanted to spend the summer in Mexico. But when he hears of a million dollars lost off South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, he ventures on a four-month roadtrip through Central and South America to retrieve it, planning to grant his 93 year old uncle Louis' wish to turn 100. It could have been so easy if villanous, girlish and dumb gangster Bella Washington wasn't also after the money...Bella's appearance is directly modeled after Elle Woods from the movie poster of Legally Blonde 2, minus the dog.

Miles - The Journey Home. It is now 2001. Having sent Bella to prison, Miles resumes his job on his father's junkyard in Wyoming, deciding which cars to save and which to scrap. When pulling out a '96 Buick Regal Olympics Edition for saving, Miles' girlfriend Yolanda, who he met at the end of the first book, notices a newspaper which states Bella has escaped from prison. To find her, Miles traverses from May to September through the Russian republics, Transnistria and Crimea in a Lada 111.

Final Days of Generation X: Set between July 1998 and September 2000, Joseph/Jāzeps is a 14-16 year old Latvian-American from North Carolina with a love for punk rock and translating books. This story describes how he witnesses the last days of the 20th century, with lots of 1990s Americana (including the Offspring album) referenced, and eventually, he goes to college with his friends. There will likely not be a sequel to this book.

Victor's Mission (Working title) After three different attempts at writing a novel about a Lithuanian, I think this time I've finally nailed it. The first idea failed at what Victor would do upon arriving at where the aliens that attacked the earth were. Idea 2 was a rehash of Ryan's story with less information: Victor and his annoying spoiled cousin Julia from Malibu traverse the Lincoln Highway in a US-spec Citroen XM, and they squabble a lot. Julia's appearance was directly based off Poppy from the movie poster for http://www.imcdb.org/movie_1024255-Wild-Child.html
Idea 3 is the current one, and I'm trying to make it nice and long: At a secret service consisting entirely of animals, the evil Dr. Zigzag has kidnapped Kaitlin, the girlfriend of Joey the kangaroo, and despite all skeptism concerning humans, the Systeminformatiker Jenna Jaguar uses a high-tech program to search for the perfect human for the job. That person turns out to be Viktoras Aukstatijos, a 17 year old Lithuanian teenager who lives divorced with his family in a Civil War-era farmhouse in rural Kentucky. Victor, as his friends call him, is a bit stupider than all the other Baltics, but nonetheless, he possesses great strength and intelligence. Like Joseph, he enjoys punk rock, but also boxing. Interestingly, several of the animals are based directly on designs found on Deviantart.

And then when I finish that book, there will be a grand finale.

About 50 percent of Space Galaxies 1 was also designed as a road trip through USA (before it goes back into Space!) and main character Jack Christopher drives the following cars:

Ford Crown Victoria Taxi, 1954 Ford F-100, Dodge Dart, Snow mobile, BMW X3

This all takes place in future, but car manufacturers stopped their development in the early years of 21st century. They entirely focussed on building batteries to make them last longer. Due to an alien attack all battery engines fail and Jack must rely on a 100 year old Ford Crown Victoria and an even older Ford F-100 before all electric engines work again.

So the Dodge Dart was built in the year 2139, but it looks like a 2016 model year. Jack even comments about this, remarking that he cant see any difference between this year and last year.

Oh and speaking about female antagonists: My only female villain was designed after Lara Croft. She dies by being crushed underneath a snack automat which is a reference to the Happy Tree Friends episode "Nuttin' Wrong With Candy":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb-K6N1CMeA

I'm in the final stages of writing "Victor's Mission" and when Dr. Zigzag is defeated, it's like a pop-culture bomb exploded and not the doomsday device on his car:

As the doctor jumps out of his car, he screams "I hate that kangaroo!" referencing Dr. Robotnik's infamous line from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic SatAM. The fact that they are both evil doctors passed me until now.

The car almost kills a farmer and daughter who are having lunch in an old barrack. To warn them, Victor yells: "TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING!" referencing the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Moments after the car explodes, Victor and Joey both sing the following lines in unison:
Broken bombs, and baking skin
Notify your next of kin
You know you'll come alive some day!
which are taken from "Huck It" by The Offspring.

Immediately after, Victor refers to Joey as "Skippy" which is a reference to Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

When the doomsday device explodes, it is mentioned that the desert sand "melted into green glass" a reference to the Trinity test.

Also, the truck that Dr. Zigzag and the agents avoid is described as a black Peterbilt with a dented bumper and a busted left headlight. This is the truck from Black Dog(1998)

IMCDb's entry of "Furious 7" helped me! Truly over night i came up with the idea for the cars and trucks in the final car chase of Space Galaxies 2. Its not the last action scene, thats an exploding oil rig. But that car chase had to be a good one. Its short but only because it directly succeeds another long car chase.

So we have the main antagonist driving a Pickup which could be described as a Pickup with the front end of the Dodge Magnum from "The Island" ( http://www.imcdb.org/i010561.jpg ) and a big letter W in the middle of the grille as the manufacturers badge.

He fights against an International 4000 ambulance with a longer wheelbase (that gave me inspiration http://pics.imcdb.org/2/ff7_015359_c33.jpg ). The Ambulance is unmanned but a cyber creature who can control electronics steers it. Not by its paws but by telepathy and in the future cars almost entirely exist of electronic parts and so is the steering. You can call it Drive-by-Wire if you want. Thats why the creature can control it.

T-X

As i mentioned a longer chase before that i will briefly tell you something about that too. Its a fight between a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat and a Liebherr LTM 11200 in Beijing. At first the Charger was an ordinary SRT-8 but my writing took so long that the Hellcat came out and i switched it. The Liebherr has the longest telescopic boom in the world (of roadgoing cranes).

And if anyone is interested, I've been sketching scenes from my newest book as well as the predecessor lately. Here's the latest page, which I've just completed:

As you can see by the Halloween pictures, Joseph is an avid Spirou fan.

And for ingo, the drawn of the Volga (scenes set in December 1980) is good, isn't it?

I didn't know that you can write in Russian

I can match the letters to their Latin counterparts, that's all...
It's Google Translate - I-Denev will probably laugh his "four letters," as we say in German, off...

I'll post the other half if someone can identify the car in the first pic.

I see, Gamer

Translations:
1.
KGB
Immigration Certificate
For: Sandra and Arturs Velneks
Location of immigration: Kentucky, USA
From:
1 January 1981
To:
30 December 1983
Andropov - General Secretary
Breshnew - Head of State

2. With this paper, the aforementioned subjects may leave the USSR for the length of the specified dates.
Reason: scouting Western countries as KGB spies.
Moscow, 12 December 1980.