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Your Kit Car Assembly Manual

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This is the most complete text on the subject of building and modifying 7-type cars I have ever found. There are hundreds of detailed, zoomable pictures that make the descriptions even more understandable than what is explained in the text. This book has information on things I had never even thought of. Gary Brizendine clearly has a complete, if not absolute, knowledge of how to build a winner for the track, street, and show. This book should be the #1 resource in your library if you are considering, in the process of, or have a finished 7-type car. You will be impressed.

Your Kit Car Assembly Manual has been a big help in planning and building my Locost sports car. Nearly every page has a concise bit of text with a representative photo. This gets the authors point across very well.
I like the CD-PDF format. This format is a great idea for any technical publication. You can easily click or scroll along as you read. The author obviously knows and enjoys relating these topics to other builders.
Certainly worth the price that I paid. I recommended The Manual.

Your Kit Car Assembly Manual is very useful because it shows how to build your own replica Lotus Super 7 sports car and plan modifications to make the car better than the original Locost "Book" car.

There are hundreds of great color photos of cars built by several different manufacturers so you can compare their particular ideas and their designs.

The Manual lets you see how to adapt the best features from the different cars when you are building your own Locost.

The CD-book format is actually very useful and is easy to use. You just mouse-click from one chapter to another by picking the topic you want to see from the Table of Contents on the left hand edge of the screen.

I go back to the Manual often to re-read sections and study the photos as my car progresses. It is like being a student in an Automotive Technology classroom.

Your Kit Car Assembly Manual is one of the most useful car books that I have ever read. Highly recommended.

I have bought 3 other books about building a Lotus Seven style kit car. This Manual is by far the most comprehensive book that I have seen. There are over 400 pages with intellegent text and excellent pictures. I highly recommend this CD.

This type a format (D.V.D.) for an assemby manual or text book is very innovative and helpful. the pictures along with the text conveys the author's message very clearly. This particular book has been very helpful to me so far. While there are a few minor - very minor-improvements that could be made; I will reserve them at this time. Overall, I am very pleased with this purchase.

Okay for what the title says it is. (Assembly) Don't look for specific info on actually building from scratch.

I was looking forward to this book as i thought the cd format was going to be helpful and will save trees, i found it to be a disappoinment, as there is just a lot of wasted space to make the book look larger than it is, a lot of pics could have fit two or more in a page, the letter type is way large and the informattion basic, however it might give you an inside into building your own car and help you decide if that is something you can do, or maybe leave to someone else. So in my opinion, buy it only if this is your first book and want some general information, but not if you really need an assambly manual, because it is not

Completely mis-named. This is nothing but a collection of ideas, hints, suggestions and examples. -A lot of good ones should you be looking for alternatives to problems, but NO real assembly instructions!! This might be a worthwhile appendum to other true construction books/instructional guides, but this is definitely not the book to choose in hopes of evaluating or learning the process involved to build one of these cars.

Gary has created a user-friendly generic works for the builder that is winging it or building any number of kits. He has impressive credentials and if he says something should be a certain way, I am not about to despute it. Keith Williams

Interesting approach to teaching the basics of the skills necessary. Not so much help for a Lowcost builder but never the less a good reference.