With clock-like regularity, publisher Waft releases a new book. The books are all gems and often become collector’s items due to their limited edition.

Their latest book is a straight flashback to the 1980s. Large spoilers on mainly German cars play the leading role.

Germany for most of us has something stern and that combined with their ‘Gründlichkeit’ makes us think the Germans have little or no humour.

German tuners, and mainly those from the 1980s, did their best to turn those prejudices on their heads.

German tuning built on the tradition of German technical excellence, but deliberately offended most of the conservative values that had made (West) Germany an economic powerhouse in the past decades.

WAFT’s latest book, Spoilers, Foxtails and Mullets, invites you to travel back in time, to an extremely conservative country, where a disparate bunch of tuners had decided to do things their own way and go for breit or die.

The book will make you laugh because of the excess and amazing creativity of this unique period.

Spoilers, Foxtails and Mullets is both a celebration of and a swan song to an era that had to end sooner rather than later.

For many of you, the following brands will seem familiar. Abt, Alpina, AMG, Arden, Brabus, Buchmann & Buchmann, Carlsson, DP Motorsport, Gemballa, Hartge, Irmscher, Kamei, Koenig Specials, Mattig, Nothelle, Oettinger, Rieger, Ruf, Schacht, Schulz, SGS, Strosek, Treser, Zender. There are quite a few and they are all covered in the book.

Did you also fancy getting more? Then you can order the book from now on via the link to Waft’s website.

Know that there is also a ‘limited’ edition of this book on sale. This one comes in a deluxe sleeve and you get a real Foxtail with it. And that’s not all because you also get a Waft Tuning keychain, a boy’s room dream poster and a Waft Tuning baseball cap.

You can order this Limited edition from this link to Waft’s website.

We have also included this book in our gift ideas list. Curious? Then click through to our list.