How to Restore Your Chevrolet Pickup (Paperback)

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Product Description

A step-by-step restoration guide for all Chevy light-duty trucks from 1928-1991. Included are more than 320 photographs accompanied by detailed text giving advice, recommendations, and tips on restoring your truck. These trucks were hard-workers over the years and refurbishing them to their original condition will keep them on the job for many more years to come.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Motorbooks International (May 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879385006
• ISBN-13: 978-0879385002
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #596,573 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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56 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How to Restore Your Chevrolet Pickup, March 10, 2000

By	Joe (Northern California) - See all my reviews

A Great starting point if you want to see whether or not you're cut out to do a full restoration or a rebuild of an older Chevy pickup. Things I liked about this book: It gives you a pretty thorough picture of what you're in for. Spells out what you'll need (shop tools) and the steps and time you'll need to do a good job. It also provides a list of where you can go for shop manuals and other technical references. Things I didn't like about this book: Black and white photography...

37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good reading to get you going on that truck!, September 29, 2000

By	Scott A. Fout (Gurnee, IL USA) - See all my reviews

I have had this book for several years and go back to it often to motivate and inform me on the restoration of my '52. They tend to favor the Advance Design series trucks, but there are commonalities for all year trucks. I really found useful the chapters on how to disasemble and clean. The book was full of helpful tips and ideas. Home brew degreaser, metal cleaning and rust memoval/repair tips, etc. The book was fairly well written and easy to understand without being simple or condesending. There are good pictures that help illustrate what you are reading about. I highly reccomend this book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for a beginning restorer, January 9, 2007

By	Bo Heinemeyer (Houghton, MI) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: How-to-Restore Your Chevrolet Pickup (Motorbooks Workshop) (Paperback)

It has good tips for all aspects of the restore/rebuild job. Not the only book you will need though. you will also need a shop manual, because this book doesnt go that in depth.