Product Description

This second edition is bigger and better with new color photography and updated information about new materials, parts sources, and restoration techniques. This massive book includes more than 1,300 photos that offer detailed step-by-step coverage of restoration processes.

By thoroughly presenting the restoration of 12 of the most coveted muscle cars of all time, the authors cover virtually every aspect of restoration, from disassembly to first drive. Featured cars include: 1968 Yenko Camaro; 1966 Pontiac GTO; 1969 Dodge Charger 500; 1963 1/2 Ford 427 Galaxie 500 Hatchback; 1973 Pontiac Super Duty Trans Am; 1966 L79 Chevy Nova SS; and 1966 Dodge Coronet Hemi.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #266637 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review

About the Author
Paul Zazarine is a former senior editor of Musclecar Review magazine and is the author of Pontiac GTO Restoration Guide and GTO Recognition Guide. He lives in Sarasota, Florida.

Greg Donahue is a master restorer who has won more than 185 national automotive awards, ranging from the AACA Senior to the Gold Spinner Award to the prestigious NCRS Duntov.

Customer Reviews

The ideal restoration guide.
Even though this book has been reprinted and extra colour pages added its still one of the best books on restoring cars.And,its published by "Motorbooks" in their "Motorbooks workshop" series so you know its good.

The book gives you step by step instructions with appropriate b&w photos throughout and a few colour photos added.It set out in the order of disassembly,paiting tips,restoring each part,reassembly,as well as preparing the freshly restored vehicle for detailing,etc.This book is also ideal to helping with any restomod project.

Appreciation for the Restoration Art
I found the book informative, though I lack the experience in restoring and showing cars to judge competently the quality of the information presented. I own Paul Zazarine's book on restoring GTOs and liked it as well.

I can see two types of people for whom this book will perform a useful service:

1) "Musclecar appreciation" types who have a general interest in the restoration process and who might later engage a professional shop;
2) Someone who plans to restore what I would call a "second-tier" musclecar, e.g. any Pontiac without the words "Ram Air", "Super Duty", or "Judge" in their name (or a convertible), which would cost more to restore professionally than it could ever fetch on the market.

Where I see this book failing is for the people who somehow own a restorable top-shelf musclecar, such as a Yenko or a Superbird, and who want to save a few dollars by doing the restoration themselves. I hope that such people will take the book's advice and research their vehicles thoroughly. By then they should conclude that a professional restoration - whether concours or "correct" - would be money well spent -- or that maybe their baby deserves a better home.

As for me, the owner of a relatively common '68 GTO HT (with an auto), it makes more sense to take the Pro Touring route. A 99-point restore on my car would just burn cash, and still not get any respect at the shows. Might as well make it an awesome driver...

Looks Like More Than It Is
I feel this is a good book, I was looking for something to just be sort of a checklist, since I feel it's important to thorough. But I feel that someone who doesn't have experience with such a diverse and complicated machine would not be able to actually read this book and then immediately jump into a restoration project. Simply because this book seems thorough in its length a lot of the complications and intricacies of restoring a car are missing, probably because they wanted to condense it but I feel that this is a perfect reminder of the simple joy of restoring a car and its great for a beginner to see how its simplest form is done and then go out and seek direction from an experienced builder. Hope that wasn't too confusing. :P