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How To Rebuild and Modify Your Muscle Car
Filed Under (Car Insurance) by admin on 17-11-2009
As cool as classic muscle cars might be, they’re only as good as the automotive technology of their era. That’s where this book comes in. With clear, easy-to-follow instructions, this guide shows how to give your car all the muscle of today while preserving the classic styling of your muscle car. In this updated and fully illustrated edition of his popular handbook, veteran overhauler and automotive writer Jason Scott takes readers through the step-by-step improvements that wil…
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I wanted a good book on modifying cars and this is what I needed. Yet another book in the “Motorbooks workshop” series so you know its going to be good. Its all about bringing any car from the basic model to the muscle car variants up to date. Plenty of sound advice from what to consider,planning your project,bodywork,interior,long engine blocks,drive train,chassis and so much. This book tells you what you need to know and why. It doesnt get any better than this. Even though this book is quite thorough it still could have done with several more pages. Its a great book. Highly recommended.
This book is titled wrong. It should be titled, “What to do to Rebuild and Modify Your Muscle Car. ” It has no business starting the title with ‘How’. It does NOT tell you “how” to do anything. It points to different aspects of a car that would be a good idea to modify, and actual brand names of different products that carry such parts (i. e. Edelbrock, Hotchkis, etc. ), but it won’t show you the first thing about how to make the change. I expected diagrams/photos of how to actually remove the old and replace with the new. It assumes you already have extensive mechanical knowledge or have already resigned yourself to letting someone else do it. It definitely is not for the do-it-yourself guy who is competent with tools, but has no experience (but wants to try). I noticed that the other review that gave it 5 stars actually says the exact same thing as me. He says the book showed him WHAT to change, and WHAT to look for to modify a car. I couldn’t agree more, but WHAT isn’t HOW. Why he gave it 5 stars is beyond me (must have been a mechanic who just needed direction?). The author needs to look up the different terminologies of What vs. How, and how they are really not synonymous as he apparently believes that they are. I hate being mislead, hence the single star rating. Anyone want to buy a cheap book?