Model Chevy Car and Truck Power Reference Books

• Camaro Owner's Handbook: Maintenance, Restoraton and Repair How-Tos for 1967-1981 Camaros - This book, first it groups repair and maintenence chores by area of the vehicle. For example Interiors: listings; weatherstriping, dash, package deck, handle replacement etc. Secondly, it has very detailed step by step photos showing you what you get into during the repairs.
• Camaro Restoration Handbook: Ground-Up or Sectional Restoration Tips and Techniques for 1967 to 1981 Camaros. All Models Included - This book provides a very complete and easily used reference on Camaro part numbers, options packages, and tips for show-quality restorations. It greatly aids planning on a "real" restoration (that is, returning the car to its original factory condition), providing enough information to identify virtually every part in the car. For example, it provides decoding information for the numeric stamp on Camaro transimissions (which is otherwise unintelligible). It also provides a large number of B&W photos and diagrams of parts and assemblies.
• Car Coloring Books - Of all kinds. Great for youngsters.
• Car That Could:, The : The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle - The story of General Motors' first mass-produced electric car, the EV1 (at first, unfortunately, named the Impact). This project was decades in gestation, the early dreams of pollution and noise-free vehicles taking a long time to progress beyond visionary prototypes. This was partly because of opposition to the concept from oil companies and the automotive industry. Eventually a combination of government prodding and technological advances in battery design made it possible. Schnayerson describes the supportive role of GM chairman Robert Stempel and the tenacity of a group of true-believing engineers who kept the idea alive after Stempel was ousted.
• Chevelle/El Camino Handbook: Performance Upgrades, Tips, and Techniqurs For Chevelle/El Camino : Covers 1964 through 1972, All Makes and Models - Here is a compilation of tech articles. Includes articles on engine performance, tires, wheels, suspension, bodywork, exhaust, and interior modifications. Complete with over 300 photos and illustrations.
• Chevy 55-56-57 - If beautiful pictures of classic Chevrolet cars is what you are looking for- this is the book for you. Every car in this photo gallery is in brand new condition. There are wonderful engine shots and full color photos of all the classic chevy models of 1955-1957. The text information is also very complete- good information on all the options and interior selections on the classic Tri-Chevys is given.
• Chevy Small-Block V-8: 50 Years of High Performance - Since its introduction in 1955, the Chevrolet small-block V-8 has been one of America's most popular, powerful, and desirable engines. Small-blocks have powered everything from Corvettes and hot rods to family sedans, stock cars, drag racers, Trans-Am cars, and racing boats. It remains the leading performance engine of choice and today generates as much as 450 horsepower in Corvettes. Chevy Small-Block V-8 50 Years of High Performance traces the long, rich history of this milestone powerplant. The detailed chronological record is complemented by sidebars that spotlight the engineers who created the engine and cover its place in pop culture, racing, and important cars. All of Chevrolet’s premier, small-block-powered vehicles are featured, including Tri-Chevys (’55, ’56, ’57), Corvette, Camaro, Chevelle, Impala, pickups, and more.
• Chevy S-10/Gmc S-15 Handbook - With more than 10 million Chevy S-10 and GMC S-15 trucks produced, this fully-illustrated guide gives everything the light truck owner needs for modifying, including upgrades and accessories for everyday use.
• Chevy & GMC Truck Performance Handbook - This book goes over almost every part of my chevy in great detail. The book covers 2 and 4 wheel drive in great accuracy.
• Chevy Trucks: High Performance and Custom Modifications for Chevy/Gmc C/K Series Trucks - A step-by-step, fully illustrated manual on how to modify Chevy's C/K series pickups for high performance street driving. Includes:
  Lowering methods and kits, Suspension modifications for better handling, Custom bodywork, Customizing your interior, Transmission modifications, Custom wheels and tires, and more.
• Chevrolet Inline Six-Cylinder Power Manual - Very good book, very informative and lots of handy little hints to follow when rebuilding a motor.
• Chevy Muscle Cars Enthusiast Color - Chevy Muscle Cars Enthusiast Color.
• Chevrolet SS Muscle Car Color History - Chevrolet SS Muscle Car Color History.
• Classic Stock Cars - Classic Stock Cars.
• Chevrolet El Camino: Photo History : Including Gmc Sprint & Caballero - Chevrolet El Camino: Photo History : Including Gmc Sprint & Caballero.
• Chevrolet: The Coming of Age--An Illustrated History of Chevrolet's Passenger Cars, 1911-1942 - Chevrolet: The Coming of Age--An Illustrated History of Chevrolet's Passenger Cars, 1911-1942.
• Chevrolet History : 1929-1939 - Through archival black & white photographs - shown model by year - sometimes comparing with Chevy's competition for that year. I would highly recommend for Chevy enthusiasts.
• Chevrolet History, 1940-1954 - A fascinating and informative look at the history of the Chevrolet as told through General Motors archive photos. The book was written and compiled by John D. Robertson, retired product expert from the GM archives. Book #2 is part of a four book set that covers the years 1940-54
• Chevrolet Pickups 1946-1972: How to Identify, Select and Restore These Collector Light Trucks - Chevrolet Pickups 1946-1972: How to Identify, Select and Restore These Collector Light Trucks.
• Corvette C6 - The C6 represents an important departure from C5 both in terms of exterior and interior styling and chassis dynamics. It features a revamped platform (to be shared with the new Cadillac XLR roadster), fixed headlights (for the first time since 1962) and an edgier, more compact body. This GM-licensed book takes the enthusiast on an illustrated tour of how C6 developed from the drawing board to the production line.
• Corvette Grand Sport - Lots of photos you won't find elsewhere, and it is the only place the incredible story of these cars is recorded.
• Corvette Grand Sport 1962-1967 - The huge amount of historical photos and data is immense and immersive. You have to see it to believe it, just buy it! It also has some of the most detailed photographs of this era of racing I've ever seen. If you need a reference for the Grand Sport, this book is well worth the money.
• Corvette Illustrated Encyclopedia - Corvette Illustrated Encyclopedia.
• Corvette Fifty Years - Filled with previously unpublished Corvette stories along with never-before seen historical photographs that complement 100s of all-new color photos. From standard production models to seldom seen prototypes to such legendary racing models as the Sebring and the Grand Sport, Leffingwell documents their histories and offers up breath-taking new photographs. A full half-century of Corvette history awaits you!
• GM Intercity Coaches 1944-1980 Photo Archive - During 1943, General Motors purchased the minority interest in Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Co., and effective October 1, 1943, Yellow became a division of GM under the name GM Truck & Coach Division. It is the coaches of this latter company that are discussed in this book.
• How to Rebuild Your Small-Block Chevy - David Vizard's book should be in the hands of anyone planning to rebuild a small block Chevy. From teardown, to inspection, evaluation of parts, and reassembly, it's all here for both the novice and experienced wrench-turner.
• How to Rebuild Small-Block Chevy Lt-1/Lt-4 Engines: Step-By-Step Rebuild to Factory Specifications, Covers 1992-1997 Gm Cars and Trucks - Not just another small-block chevy rebuild book - Mavrigian really shows the differences of the gen II chevy small block. Good pictures and lots of specifics. Buy it before rebuilding your LT-1 in your 92+ vette, 93+ F-body or B- body.
• How to Build and Modify Gm Pro Touring Street Machines: Classic Looks with Modern Performance - GM's muscle cars of the '60s and '70s were great for their time - but what they did best was go in a straight line. Today's performance cars have it all though - speed, handling, and comfort. This book shows you how to build a Pro-Touring machine: a classic muscle car that accelerates, stops, corners, and rides like Detroit's best new high-performance cars. Author Tony E. Huntimer goes through a car's major systems - drivetrain, chassis, suspension, body, and interior - and shows you how to upgrade that classic muscle car to make it a modern performer. Electronic fuel injection, 6-speed trannies, better shocks and springs, modern seating and instruments, and subtle body mods are all covered, along with step-by-step how-to sequences on many key modifications. Classic muscle car looks, with modern muscle car performance - that's what Pro-Touring is all about!
• How to Hotrod Big-Block Chevys: Covers All Big Block Engines 1965 and Later - This book is the best engine building bible to live by for early big block Chevy fans. You must understand and appreciate how people built up engines in the "early days" to really see why people do it the way they do today. The information might be outdated to some, but truely valuable to others (pertaining mostly to classic engines). If you have a sixties or early seventies big block Chevy, then this would be the book for you.
• How to Build Monster Chevy Big Blocks - How to Build Monster Chevy Big Blocks. Based on factory stock as well as bored/stroked bow tie parts and aftermarket components, this book takes readers from 396 cubes through 430, 510, 550, 572, 705, and 750 cubic inch engines. Includes pump gas 700 hp motors, streetable 890 hp engines, 510 cube/630 hp engines that look like a 396, and more; it's all here in this heavily illustrated book.
• John Lingenfelter on Modifying Small-Block Chevy Engines: High Performance Engine Building and Tuning for Street and Racing - John Lingenfelter's version of small block rebuilding is a refreshing view and goes into detail that makes the "how and why" simple to follow and understand without over explaining.
• Nova Handbook: Restoration, Upgrades, and Street Performance for 1962-1967 Chevy Novas - Nova Handbook: Restoration, Upgrades, and Street Performance for 1962-1967 Chevy Novas .
• Nova Ss Muscle Car Color History - This book will give a beginner all the info they need to know and let the enthusiests in on a couple of secrets. For any person who loves Novas will love this book!
• Small-Block Chevy Performance: Modifications and Dyno-Tested Combinations for High Performance Street and Racing Use - Small-Block Chevy Performance: Modifications and Dyno-Tested Combinations for High Performance Street and Racing Use.
• Small Block Chevy Engine Build-Ups: How to Build Horsepower for Maximum Street and Racing Performance - How to build small-block Chevy engines for maximum performance. Includes sections on heads, cams, exhaust systems, induction modifications, dyno-tested engine combinations, and complete engine build-ups.
• Story of Chevy Impalas (The) - With bright full-page photos and a focus on the history of each auto, these two entries in the Classic Cars series are heavy on eye-candy and simple, easily digestible information. Beetles follows the history of the car from its introduction in 1935 and booming popularity in the '60s and '70s to its rebirth in 1998. Impalas traces the auto's evolution from a roomy, fun car marketed to young people into a gas-guzzling powerhouse and, finally, into an affordable, efficient family car.

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