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How to Restore Your Chevrolet Pickup

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A Great starting point if you want to see whether or not you're cut out to do a full restoration or a rebuild of an older Chevy pickup. Things I liked about this book: It gives you a pretty thorough picture of what you're in for. Spells out what you'll need (shop tools) and the steps and time you'll need to do a good job. It also provides a list of where you can go for shop manuals and other technical references. Things I didn't like about this book: Black and white photography...

I have had this book for several years and go back to it often to motivate and inform me on the restoration of my '52. They tend to favor the Advance Design series trucks, but there are commonalities for all year trucks. I really found useful the chapters on how to disasemble and clean. The book was full of helpful tips and ideas. Home brew degreaser, metal cleaning and rust memoval/repair tips, etc. The book was fairly well written and easy to understand without being simple or condesending. There are good pictures that help illustrate what you are reading about. I highly reccomend this book.

It has good tips for all aspects of the restore/rebuild job. Not the only book you will need though. you will also need a shop manual, because this book doesnt go that in depth.

An excellent source of information for any level of mechanical knowledge.
Great source of links and information.

A great guide for anyone wishing to restore an old Chevy truck, but fantastic for a newbie to the task! This book will help you decide the path you really want to take.. True restoration or a rebuild so you can use and enjoy your old truck. If you buy one book first, this is the one!

This book has been very helpful as my mechanical skills are limited. I am a novice but have been bitten by the old truck bug. The book covers Chevys but also has a lot of references to GMC trucks. There are also a lot of photos to go along with the text. It explains the basics and then some. I would strongly recommend it for a novice or mid-level mechanic. If you are a professional, you probably know the contents already.
What bothers the heck out of me though are the typos and improper grammer. Whoever did the proof reading gets an F.

I bought this book as a gift for my husband to match his purchase of a 1953 1 ton Chevy pickup. Moose as we have named him is in totally original condition (including the paint). My husband has rodded vehicles several times over the years, but we want to keep as much of Moose original as feasible. This book has already been read cover to cover (twice) and several pages have been dog earred. It is especially complete on the era which includes 1953, and that of course is what we are working with. I would have to say later years may be disappointed, but it is still quite good at offering more than one option for "how-to" restore the major components. This is not really a book for hot rodders, but if you want to learn the history or restore this is a good purchase. I'd love to see a more recent edition.

I am restoring a 1953 Chevrolet 5-window cab pickup. I was looking for a manual, catalog, book that would give me some detail about the project I am undertaking, like whether to replace or repair the body work, etc. While this book offered some interesting information, I found it too generic for my tastes. If you are "just thinking" about undertaking this kind of project, this might be an interesting read. If, however, you want some good usable information, even tech stuff, the internet/google will provide so much more.

I would reccomend This book to anyone who is thinking about restoring or rebuilding a classic Chevy Truck. It is full of tips and ideas. For specfics on rebuilding systems of the truck you'll need more info, but to get started and to figure out if you even want to attempt a project truck this is the book for you.

The book has some basic ideas, but I was looking for more specifics such as reassembly order and tips, which were not given.