Gives the do-it-yourself restorer the confidence to tackle bodywork repairs and achieve professional results. The text is easy to read, the photos bright and colorful, and the instructions are clear. This book gives the backyard mechanic confidence to tackle bodywork repairs and achieve professional results. Specially devised techniques which don't rely on professional workshop equipment enable even the most difficult tasks to be undertaken.
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www.front-runners.net, June 2007 - UK website
Classic Car Bodywork is a guide of start-to-finish body restoration, it goes through techniques from how to replace panels with new items all the way up to fabricating your own sheetmetal from scratch. The author is a Triumph fan, and all the examples shown in the book are applied to British classic cars with occasional examples from other manufacturers thrown in where there are fundamental differences.
I have to say that this book is a great read, the author's enthusiasm for classic cars comes through in the writing yet all the way through it remains easy to understand; an enthusiastic reader can easily digest it from cover to cover. Many of the techniques for metalforming shown will come in handy for those doing running repairs at MoT time, as well as covering proper restoration. It also has useful advice on dealing with rust and making the basic preparations for painting.
In short I rate it at 5/5 – both useful and a good read.
"You can't fail to pick up lots of tip if you're the average DIY mechanic. The book is recommended for any home mechanic undertaking restoration work, and could end up saving you a small fortune." – Mini Cooper Register
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A book written for the home restorer who, until now, lacked the confidence to tackle bodywork. With specially devised techniques which don't rely on workshop plant, this work spans the gap between professional and amateur. The text is readable, the photos bright and the instruction clear. A real boon for the enthusiast.
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It is a great book to get great information from.,
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This is a very good book. This guy can turn a completely rusted out car into a new one. I am talking about a car that anyone else would take the motor out, and put in another one. He shows you how to patch and repair anything, without having to go and buy a piece of the car. And how to do it with budget tools.
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Very practical for the home car restorer or repairer.,
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This is an extremely richly and well illustrated book that shows you in easily understood words and pictures how to do minor and relatively major car body repairs at home. While the examples and pictures are mainly UK classic sports cars (or what start out as rust buckets), the techniques apply equally well to modern Australian and North American cars.
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Excellent book clearly written instruction for someone considering extensive metal restoration on a Classice Car Body. Focussed on metal work, I will also buy a book by this author on painting if available when i progress to the painting stage. Well worth the money i'd be happy to answer any specific questions on [...]. Buy without hesitation!
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This book was written for all those classic car enthusiasts who want to get involved with bodywork, but who, for whatever reason, feel they lack the necessary knowledge or confidence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cross pien, resistance spot welder, bumping hammer, new wheelarch, gash metal, inner wheelarch, sill assembly, inner sill, beating block, zinc spray, outer sill, new sill, lamp panel, sill end, spring hammer, separate chassis, body file, door gap, panel repair, angle grinder, cutting disc, rear quarter panel, cutting disk, inner arch, overlapping spots Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This book was written for all those classic car enthusiasts who want to get involved with bodywork, but who, for whatever reason, feel they lack the necessary knowledge or confidence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cross pien, resistance spot welder, bumping hammer, new wheelarch, gash metal, inner wheelarch, sill assembly, inner sill, beating block, zinc spray, outer sill, new sill, lamp panel, sill end, spring hammer, separate chassis, body file, door gap, panel repair, angle grinder, cutting disc, rear quarter panel, cutting disk, inner arch, overlapping spots Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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