Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #150592 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-27
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Review

www.front-runners.net, June 2007 - UK website Classic Car Bodywork is a guide of start-to-finish body restoration, it goes through techniques from how to replace panels with new items all the way up to fabricating your own sheetmetal from scratch. The author is a Triumph fan, and all the examples shown in the book are applied to British classic cars with occasional examples from other manufacturers thrown in where there are fundamental differences.

I have to say that this book is a great read, the author's enthusiasm for classic cars comes through in the writing yet all the way through it remains easy to understand; an enthusiastic reader can easily digest it from cover to cover. Many of the techniques for metalforming shown will come in handy for those doing running repairs at MoT time, as well as covering proper restoration. It also has useful advice on dealing with rust and making the basic preparations for painting.

In short I rate it at 5/5 – both useful and a good read.

Customer Reviews

Very practical for the home car restorer or repairer.
This is an extremely richly and well illustrated book that shows you in easily understood words and pictures how to do minor and relatively major car body repairs at home. While the examples and pictures are mainly UK classic sports cars (or what start out as rust buckets), the techniques apply equally well to modern Australian and North American cars.

It is a great book to get great information from.
This is a very good book. This guy can turn a completely rusted out car into a new one. I am talking about a car that anyone else would take the motor out, and put in another one. He shows you how to patch and repair anything, without having to go and buy a piece of the car. And how to do it with budget tools.