Porsche 356, Guide to Do-it-Yourself Restoration has something for all 356 enthusiasts. Author Jim Kellogg covers everything an individual do-it-yourselfer needs to know to transform a rusty project car to a restored classic. The text is primarily focused for the prospective restorer unfamiliar with the nuances of the 356 Porsche and is presented in an easy-going, uncomplicated style with numerous photos. Advanced subject areas, such as major body repairs and adding a sunroof, will prove informative to those who have been around the block a couple times, as well. Topics covered include disassembly, paint & rust removal, structural & body repair, paint preparation, reassembly and final detailing. Information is also provided about locating a project car, long lead time items, reproduction vs. original parts, painter selection and project budgeting. There is even a section about swap meet etiquette! Capping it off are the most up to date chassis number listings and color charts. Even if you do not plan to take on your own carªs restoration, this book will help you understand the process and pitfalls, and is told by someone who has restored or repaired over eighty 356s in the past thirteen years. His insights and advice will assist in assessing the wisdom of embarking on the process or just knowing what to expect from the shop restoring your car.
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Included in the 356 Defined are Porsche year-by-year model descriptions with attention to changes in details, both mechanical and cosmetic. The chassis number and color information, more accurate than available from the factory, is provided in easy to use charts. The text has been reviewed and approved by an impressive array of recognized 356 authorities worldwide. All models, from the commonplace to the very unusual are described and presented with full color photos of over 75 original and correctly restored 356 Porsches. Not only coupes, cabriolets and Speedsters, but Carreras, America Roadsters, even pushrod GTs are revealed in a way to simplify the incredibly complicated 356 lineage and nomenclature. Along the way, a number of established myths are challenged and the unique hand-built one-of-a-kind masterpiece Porsche 356 is transformed into a naturally evolving limited-production sports car.
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Alan Bock is the senior editorial writer and essayist for the Orange County Register. He wrote the best selling title "Ambush at Ruby Ridge" a highly respected account of the Randy Weaver affair.
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14 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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Mr. Bock addresses both the political and philosophical argument in favor of freedom, both medical and political, in this consise book. He was evidently on the front lines and his reporter-like analysis is thorough and researched. All legislators, especially so-called "conservatives" need to get a copy of this book and read what it means to have the people stand for what they believe and work towards that goal peacefully and legally, and to see what government and its agents really do to stifle freedom and kill people. Please tell your friends about this book...
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Alan Bock, senior editorial writer for the Orange County Register, knows marijuana. Bock has covered California's medical marijuana initiative, Proposition 215, since the movement began in 1996. His book, Waiting to Inhale, gives its readers a smoking inside look at the forces behind the movement to give medical patients access to the legal use of marijuana.
Bock leads us through a journey that begins with his sporadic involvement covering hemp and marijuana reform issues, and centers on the campaign to pass Proposition 215, the Medical Marijuana Act.
In 1995, California patient-activists began the process to legalize the medical use of marijuana, and later enlisted the help of East Coast pros and big-money entrepreneurs such as George Soros. Facing opposition from just about every aspect of government, including most Federal, State, and local agencies, Proposition 215 passed, and the obstacle then became one of implementation in the face of bureaucratic and law enforcement tyranny.
The voters of California had spoken. And clearly, they decided that no drug enforcement issues should stand in the way of medical patients who found that smoking a joint -- in private, on their own property -- could bring pain relief and a better quality of life.
Immediately upon passage of the referendum, the drug war movement went into action. "Drug czar" General Barry McCaffrey threatened the arrest of doctors recommending marijuana; former czar William Bennett claimed stupidity on the part of the voting public for passing such a referendum; and the entire neocon-right asserted the for the children morality argument against "drugs".
The issue of implementation soon became a question of State's rights vs. federal usurpation of powers. Most staggering is the blatant abuse of federal powers in sustaining a block on the implementation of State laws through the use of bureaucratic and administrative procedures. In addition, the IRS promised to torment doctors prescribing marijuana while Orrin Hatch's Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings to battle the legality of the California law. Bill Clinton's bevy of antagonists included Janet Reno and Donna Shalala, both avowed leftists that clashed against their own kind; clearly, sustenance of a federal mastery over the behavior of its minions superceded a politically incorrect freedom-for-pot-smokers movement.
In continued opposition, the feds stood in the way of the use, distribution, and sale of medical marijuana. Federal controls on marijuana meant that California had passed a law but it could not be implemented by state agencies. In fact, the DEA raided medical marijuana distributors that adhered to state laws for the distribution of prescribed marijuana. Also, individuals were arrested at will for growing their own pot for their own prescribed use, which state law allowed. Therefore, the state was powerless against the feds.
Even where the feds were not present, some of the locals fought implementation, as judges and prosecutors and police made medical marijuana users favorite targets of judicial impediment. Local law enforcement was allowed to bust patient-growers, arrest doctors, and close down legal distribution centers. The problem was that the state Attorney General's office not only did not see to it that local law enforcement didn't run hog wild with a despotic harassment methodology, but rather, they stood by while these thugs broke down doors and arrested legal medicinal users.
Bock oftentimes points out that there was never much grass roots opposition standing in the way of medical marijuana consent. Everywhere there are polls on this issue, voters overwhelmingly support the use of medical marijuana. After all, most people have the ability to discern that individuals have the right to alleviate pain, even if that includes using non-typical methods not approved by the assorted government bureaucracies.
Overall, Bock does an admirable job of making the case for State's rights and the necessity for judicial decisions to uphold a legally passed state law in the face of federal resistance. However, he is almost too nice in taking up a whole lot of space to sustain the argument that smoking marijuana doesn't lead to the increased use of illicit drugs. Whether or not this is the case, the decision to ingest particular foods or smoke certain substances is one that only an individual can make, for no government can make these decisions for us without sustaining tyranny over our lives. Medical marijuana is compassionate, yes, but it is also a liberty that should not have to be decided by federal or state bureaucrats, or even our neighbors.
The outcome of this entire bloody drug war is that Americans no longer have control over their own lives. In fact, they are economically raped to provide for the bureaucrat's warfare machine. Bock quotes Thomas Szasz as saying, "the American 'war on drugs' represents merely a new variation in humanity's age-old passion to 'purge' itself of its 'impurities' by staging vast dramas of scapegoat persecutions."
Indeed, the trampling of individual rights will continue. Knowing how warped our government is in terms of its insidious War on Drugs, don't expect to legally toke anytime soon, suffering or not.
6 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Alan Bock is a writer for the Orange County (CA) Register and an advocate for medical marijuana. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Bock at a convention where he signed a copy of this book for me. I had heard of Bock before, and based on what I knew, I was confident that his book would be a good one.
Bock dissects the medical marijuana issue, talking about the different initiatives that have come before the voters, the activists who helped get them on the ballot, the problem of effective distribution, and the interesting methods used by opposition forces to bring them down. Bock explains the history of this plant as a drug, reminding everyone how marijuana once was an ordinary, acceptable prescription drug used to treat many different ailments and how the federal governments' anti- marijuana propaganda was used to turn this relatively harmless drug into a Schedule 1, forbidden fruit substance- the same classification that includes heroin and crack.
This book has many memorable parts that get you thinking, but I think my personal favorites are the chapters that talk about the reaction by the feds when each medical marijuana initiative passed its respective states. In each instance, when placed before the voters, the people have responded in decisive fashion, voting to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes. And in each case, the feds reacted in a rather strange way. Instead of acknowledging the will of the people, Bock points out in the book that they tried to brush it off, claiming that the people had been "duped". This is a very weird reaction, and I think it speaks volumes. It shows that the feds had no intelligent argument against medical marijuana and had to resort to, in essence, a form of name calling. It was a sour grapes- type response, and it showed that the feds were just irritated that the public didn't fall for its propaganda anymore.
Bock is obviously on the side of the medical marijuana patients, but he still manages to show objectivity in his analysis and conclusions. He agrees that some of the opponents' concerns could be valid, but then he quickly explains why they are unfounded, offering evidence to back up his pro- medical marijuana stance.
"Waiting to Inhale" is, overall, a very well- thought out, very intelligent book from journalist Alan Bock. It effectively discusses the past, present, and future ramifications of medical marijuana as a prescription drug and its place in society. It's a good book for all to read, particularly social conservatives who think there is no practical use for this black- market drug.
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