Grease Junkie, Edd China
Grease Junkie, Edd China
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Grease Junkie
A book of moving parts

Author: Edd China

Narrator: Edd China

Unabridged: 7 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Virgin Digital

Published: 07/04/2019


Synopsis

Penguin presents the audiobook editon of Grease Junkie by Edd China.

'Think fast. Think big. Think the unthinkable!'

As you'll discover in his incomparable memoir, inventor, mechanic, TV presenter and walking tall as the definition of the British eccentric, Edd China sees things differently.

An unstoppable enthusiast from an early age, Edd had 35 ongoing car projects while he was at university, not counting the double-decker bus he was living in. Now he's a man with not only a runaround sofa, but also a road-legal office, shed, bed and bathroom. His first car was a more conventional 1303 Texas yellow Beetle, the start of an ongoing love affair with VW, even though it got him arrested for attempted armed robbery.

A human volcano of ideas and the ingenuity to make them happen, Edd is exhilarating company. Join him on his wild, wheeled adventures; see inside his engineering heroics; go behind the scenes on Wheeler Dealers.
Climb aboard his giant motorised shopping trolley, and let him take you into his parallel universe of possibility.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on May 26, 2019

I found this book very disjointed. Edd China would start with a story, and then it would derail him to another story or a fact he wanted to share before he finished the story he originally started sharing with the reader. To me, China is known as the mechanic from the Velocity/MotorTrend show Wheele......more

Goodreads review by Vittorio on June 30, 2024

Like many people, I got to know Edd China from the TV show "Wheeler Dealers" and I was very sad when I learned that he would no longer appear on it. His repairs had always been the main point of interest for me. I soon discovered that Wheeler Dealers is just a small part of what Mr. China has done in......more

Goodreads review by Aditya on April 16, 2023

This is indeed a Book of Moving Parts. Edd mostly rambles on about everything under the sun, anecdotes from his personal life, wacky projects he took on, ideas that come to him as he writes, and a lot more than one cannot form a pattern of. It's all very nonlinear and I don't blame him for that. The bo......more

Goodreads review by Bill on March 22, 2022

I have been following Edd China’s work for many years and was excited to see he had written a book. The content focuses on his humble beginnings, appreciation of cars, time on Wheeler Dealers, and fun stories. Edd’s writing style is honest and insightful. I liked that he only focused on the essentia......more

Goodreads review by Richard on November 29, 2024

For anyone who has seen Wheeler Dealers and the co-hosts this book is from the mechanic Edd China, in his book, we learn about him getting released from Wheeler Dealers from his perspective anyway, the other side could be different. And it goes through his life and his adventures and escapedes and a......more