Customer Reviews

How to Restore Classic Car Bodywork (Veloce Enthusiast's Restoration Manual Series)

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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.

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.

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!

This book details techniques being replaced by more modern tools. These superior methods should not be forgotten. They will be applied to the restoration of my 73 Cuda.

It is unfortunate that I am forced to study pictures of these little English toy cars while preparing to build a Hemicuda restomod. I think my engine choices are bigger than the entire cars featured in this book. What are you going to do?

Jokes aside- great book.

An adequate overview of car bodywork - but not an authoritative, or exhaustive treatise on the subject. A reasonable starting point, but don't just read this and then charge off and begin a full-scale body restoration on your expensive classic car.

The examples shown in this book are rusty as hell and this goes a long way in giving you the confidence to try the skills shown in bringing them back to life. As far as diy bodywork books go this is the best on the topic so far. I can actually afford all the tools used in this book and that is one major reason why it gets 5 stars.

My fiance is currently restoring a '36 Ford. I got him this book and he said it's perfect for the body work projects he has ahead of him. =)