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How to build your own Supercar (The Essential Manual)

How to build your own Supercar (The Essential Manual)
By Brian Thompson

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Using the author’s mid engined sports car as the featured build this book is written to encourage and inspire you with your own automotive dreams. It describes the unique inexpensive ideas and techniques that were combined to achieve impressive results and lift the project car from average to outstanding. All the ideas can be adapted to solve your own problems and meet your own particular requirements. The book focuses mainly on fiberglass moulding and modification including the manufacture of a stylish rear wing spoiler from a basic wooden mould to the construction of a pair of gull wing doors using the same method. It does not neglect other aspects of car building with other sections covering such things as the vacuum forming of a pair of headlight fairings, how to ensure systems such as twin fuel tanks and mid engined gear linkages work as intended and how the exhaust system was made. The final chapter lifts the lid on how to make a professional looking leather trimmed interior. Two hundred and fifty detailed photographs, sectional views and exploded diagrams ensure maximum clarity.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #880058 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-08-15
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 112 pages

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Customer review from Amazon.co.uk, September 2008

Having seen the finished vehicle at the Newark Kit Car Show earlier this year I expected this book to be good – I didn't expect it to be this good! The useful information in this book is far more than any fibreglassing book I've read before, and I'm only part way through the book, which arrived today. The modest author seen at the show certainly can write as well as build cars, and this book is absolutely superb, giving the necessary info in an entertaining way, with good detail. What more can I say! I have no aspirations to build a Supercar (a more sedate form of transport is ideal for me), but if you have ANY interest in kit cars this is a must-have read, if only to wonder how the author has so much patience. I've now run out of superlatives!

About the Author

Brian is an aircraft technician and former Royal Air Force apprentice, which gives him a thorough understanding of structures and systems. Ever since he could drive his hobby has been cars, and Brian has written articles for various car magazines relating to his build and restoration experiences. He thoroughly enjoys solving problems that such projects always throw up. Cars that have received treatment include a Dolomite Sprint engined Triumph TR, a Carlton Commando kit car, 1967 Austin Mini Moke and an original 1967 Cox GTM.  That build featured many body modifications that provided useful fiberglass experience. He honed his self-taught fiber-glassing and other self-build skills by creating a unique, road legal, supercar.

Customer Reviews

Total Junk1
This book is total junk! The publisher is just trying to make a buck and has lied about the title! The lines of the car are great, but the car was built when the "project" started. This has ZERO frame design, and is a modification of a one off car. You can't even replicate the book as you can't get the raw car to start with. Totally mis-leading. Additionally all the information given is for fiberglassing, and can be found in any good boatbuilding book for 1/3 of the cost. I am an engineer by trade and would expect a lot more for my money. I would watch this publisher as they do not deliever on their promise in the title

How to Modify a Kit Car3
What the books covers, it does in detail. I thought it would cover all aspects of car building and it doesn't. The author modifies a kit car so he doesn't talk about electrical, chassis, suspension, any mechanical system and drivetrain. He basically modifies the body and interior. Useful but far from complete.