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Muscle Car Interior Restoration (Restoration Series)

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Muscle Car Interior Restoration Guide is a 'must' for any automotive library. It tells how to return a muscle car's interior to original or like-new condition, providing an expert's advice on the process and covering instrumental panel and dashboard restoration, firewall, steering wheel, and pedal as well as carpet, door panels and convertible tops. Any library catering to auto restoration buffs will find this a rare and popular, specific pick.

I was pretty disappointed in this book, there were not many actual do it yourself articles but a lot more of what can be done by aftermarket companies.

There was an interesting section on repairing a cracked steering wheel. It started out giving a great explanation and lot of photos, but when it came time to show the end results and the steps leading to the finished repair, there were no more photos. So I have no way of knowing how they recreated the grain or what it actually looked like.

The section on convertible top replacement was way too brief. I have actually seen more detail in some of the car magazines when they run articles like that.

The section on dash repair was basically like an ad for Just Dashes. It showed you the process they go through to recover a 1970 GTO dash, it was a reprint of an article from one of the car magazines so nothing new there. Most people know they can drop $1000 bucks and have Just Dashes recover their dash for them, so why not show a repair a home restorer can do? I happen to own a 70 GTO, so I know there is nothing the home restorer can do for that dash, so no need for that chapter. Even the section on dash gauge wiring; the author makes reference to how neatly he ran all the grounds through one wire, but doesn't bother showing what he did.
It's more a book of ideas and less a book of how to.