Discover the latest strategies and technologies that can make your restoration a pleasurable experience and avoid the expensive mistakes that can plague a project. Get a hands-on lesson in the latest chemical products and understand the benefits of environmentally safe tactics and materials for perfect effects on that next undertaking.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Advanced auto restoration,
By Ken Wickham (Austin TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Modern Techniques for Auto Restoration (Paperback)
Ok, I'll admit I'm partial because I'm the author but I feel I need to clear a few things up. This book is meant to supliment other restoration books. Most books stop w/ chemicals and equipment used in the 70's and early 80's. A lot has changed since then and this book fills in the missing pieces. I wrote the book so I know there is only 1 picture of a 57 Chevy featured and the book is not subsidized by anyone. I use a lot of refences to other companies to help you purchase materials so I guess that's where the "subsidized" remark came from. After reading this book, you will not just be able to read numbers off of obsolete paint cans from the 70's but you'll actually understand how all the chemicals in paint and body work, work with each other and why they are used. Even though paint companies change the numbers and labels from year to year, you will know how to go to a paint store and ask for what you need. You'll have insight to what judges look for in competetions, and if you haven't purchased a car yet, I'll teach you a few tricks that I use to buy a problem free car. I hope this provides some balance to the fairly inaccurate remarks made earlier. Good luck with your dream!
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The perfect guide for the wealthy restorer,
By A Customer
This review is from: Modern Techniques for Auto Restoration (Paperback)
This book covers all the fundamentals of auto restoration, basing its "how to" principles on the complete strip-down of a '57 Chevy. Most of the techniques used are applicable to any vehicle restoration. Unfortunately, the author found it necessary to use the book as a political forum (he's quite clear on his views against environmentalism) and the book almost reads as a 192 page advertisement for one particular company I won't mention. Also, much of the equipment the author refers to is WAY out of the price range of the average restorer. Overall, the book is good for ideas, but I think it's a bit pricey for an advertiser-subsidized publication.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Best book on auto restoration that I know of,
By Bobster (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Modern Techniques for Auto Restoration (Paperback)
This book is written by someone who restores cars full time and is a member of the Pontiac club. He emphasises first of all buying the right car to restore, then goes into stripping the paint and disassembling the car, taking the body off the frame, restoring the chassis, the engine and transmission - emphasis on restore, not rebuild, and finally painting and then maintaining the restored car.
It's full of good advice, such as disassembling as little of the car as possible at a time, so you won't forget how things go back together, and where best to spend your time, eg. don't spend a week fixing an easily replaced part like a bumper, when you could use the time block sanding the body. I found the chapter "Applying and compounding paint" especially informative. There are just 160 or so pages of text, including photographs, so it's not a super detailed step by step book not a comprehensive encyclopedia of restoration - it assumes you have been around cars for awhile and have tools and basic skills. The emphasis is on how to restore a car to show winning standards, and for this it's been the best book that I have found so far.
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