How to Restore Your Muscle Car (Motorbooks Workshop)
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Customer Reviews
- Looks Like More Than It Is
- Reviewer: Andres Borges (Los Angeles, Ca), Date of review: May 13, 2009
- Avg. Customer Rating: 4 Stars
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
- 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
- Good book
- Reviewer: Brad C. (Nokomis, IL.), Date of review: March 28, 2009
- Avg. Customer Rating: 4 Stars
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
- This book is well organized and help a lot in the process of restoring a car. I have a 1970 Chevelle SS and the references used pertain to my exact application. I am not completely thru the book but it will help you restore your muscle car because the pictures are good and he explains thing really well. He provides instructions for several different cars for certain teardown procedures. Well worth the money to help you thru your restoration.
- Appreciation for the Restoration Art
- Reviewer: K. Parmalee (Atlanta GA USA), Date of review: December 08, 2008
- Avg. Customer Rating: 4 Stars
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
- 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...
- The ideal restoration guide.
- Reviewer: Chris Sellick (South Australia,Australia), Date of review: September 01, 2007
- Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
- 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.