 | Build Your Own Sports Car for as Little as £250 and Race It!, 2nd Ed. by Ron Champion
Buy used from: $99.00 How to build your own car from scratch using parts off of a rear wheel drive Ford Escort, which was never available in the U.S. It looks like this is out of print, but it shouldn't be hard to find. "Build your own Sports Car: On A Budget" is the updated version.
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 | Car Builder's Manual by Lionel Baxter
Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $19.69 Haynes companion book to: Build Your own Sports Car for as Little as 250 lbs...
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 | Build Your Own Sports Car: On a Budget by Mr. Chris Gibbs
Buy new: $21.75 / Used from: $19.51 Now available. I'm reading it now...
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 | How to Build a Cheap Sports Car (Motorbooks Workshop) by Keith Tanner
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $16.35 Finally a published build diary! Miata based Locost. Very well done Motorbooks book, with an excellent companion web site: http://www.cheapsportscar.net/
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 | How to Build Your Own Tiger Avon Sportscar (Speedpro Series) by Jim Dudley
Buy used from: $173.72 An interesting alternative to Ron Champion's Locost Seven. Uses the Merkur Sierra (in the USA: XR4Ti) and features it's fully independent rear suspension: www.tigerracing.com
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 | Lotus Seven & the Independents: Featuring the Lotus Seven and a History of the World's Independent Builders by Dennis Ortenburger
Buy new: $35.09 / Used from: $27.98 This is a very informative book covering the many Lotus Seven clones and other curious variations on Chapman's genius.
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 | How to Build and Modify Sportscar and Kitcar (Speedpro) by Des Hammill
Buy used from: $61.99 A useful primer on suspension geometry. Very easy to understand what's happening at the corners and how it affects your handling. Valuable resource for the "Locost Seven" fabricator.
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 | Rebuilding and Tuning Fords Kent Crossflow Engine by Peter Wallage
Buy used from: $37.95 A compliment to this with blueprinting info would be: "How to Build and Maintain Competitive(yet legal) Formula Ford 1600 Engines, by Jake Lamont, No ISBN, check... http://www.pegasusautoracing.com/
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 | Your Kit Car Assembly Manual by Gary Brizendine
Buy new: $20.95 / Used from: $43.30 I finally ordered this, based on it's positive reviews, and am evaluating it now. I'll let you know what I think...
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 | The Kitcar Manual: The complete guide to choosing, buying and building British and Amercan kit cars by Iain Ayre
Buy used from: $16.00 I'm looking for copy of this.
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 | Performance Roadsters: The Enthusiast's Guide to Cars Inspired By The Classic Lotus 7 by Monty Watkins
Buy used from: $26.78 An interesting collection of many Lotus clones, soft bound magazine format.
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 | The Magnificent 7 - The Enthusiast's Guide to Every Lotus 7 and Caterham 7 from 1957 to the Present Day by Chris Rees
Buy new: $28.15 / Used from: $17.00 An excellent coffee table book that features every variation of the Seven (be it Lotus or Caterham) in chronological order.
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| Lotus Seven: Preparation, Restoration and Maintenance. by Tony Weale
Buy used from: $179.95 Certainly one of the most useful books for a Lotus 7 owner. Many facts about the original cars and where Colin Chapman scrounged parts for them. This is the closest thing to an owners manual.
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 | Caterham Sevens: The Official Story of a Unique British Sportscar (Marques & Models) by Chris Rees
Buy used from: $59.35 The Official Story, what more can you say?
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 | Caterham Sevens: The Official Story of a Unique British Sportscar from Conception to CSR (Marques & Models) by Chris Rees
Buy new: $50.60 / Used from: $45.20 I'm not sure what has changed for this edition. It's on my wish list so please feel free to buy it for me :)
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 | Lotus and Caterham Seven: Racers for the Road (Crowood AutoClassic) by John Tipler
Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $14.00 This high quality hard cover book is packed with info, and a favorite of mine because of the many recent assembly photos from the Caterham works.
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 | Lotus Seven Gold Portfolio 1957-1973 by R.M. Clarke
Buy used from: $22.50 These 2 Brooklands magazine article compilations are great reading. More than 50 period articles from car magazines.
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| Lotus Caterham Seven Gold Portfolio, 1974-95 (Brooklands Road Tests)
Buy used from: $68.95 Ditto above. Brooklands '74- '95
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| Lotus Seven (Super Profile) by Graham Arnold
Buy used from: $19.66 A brief yet complete and well done overview of Lotus 7 models (just 56 pgs, 8 pages color). 1984, Foulis Motoring Book "Super Profile Series"
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| Lotus Seven (Osprey Classic Marques) by Andrew Morland
Buy used from: $29.97 |
 | Lotus Seven: Collector's Guide (A collector's guide) by Jeremy Coulter
Buy used from: $96.53 |
 | Seven Passion
I'm looking for copy of this.
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 | Colin Chapman, Lotus Engineering: Theories, Designs & Applications by Hugh Haskell
Buy used from: $174.95 This is an interesting history book with Lotus Inc. background info. Helps one "get into" Colin's head.
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