- 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 The information might be outdated to some, but truely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.
- Hot
Rod: The Photography Of Peter Vincent - Nothing captures
the visual essence of the hot rod like Peter Vincent's photography.
In brilliant color and fully-saturated black-and-white
photography, Vincent will capture America's most essential
hot rods, hot rodders, and racers in dramatic settings such
as the Bonneville Salt Flats and California's dry lakes –
the places from which hot rodders have always drawn inspiration.
The majority of the book's photographs will get the same treatment:
each will have its own page, surrounded by white space and
properly cropped and framed to show off Vincent's photographic
artistry. Woven throughout the book, Vincent will tell
the story of hot rodding through interviews with the originators
of the culture, land speed racers, and the new generation
of hot rodders who are keeping alive the aesthetic sensibility
of hot rodding.
- Hot
Rod Milestones -Beginning in the postwar 1940s and progressing
to the present day, this color history takes a decade-by-decade
look at the hot rods that have become particularly notorious
for their creators' stylistic and mechanical achievements.
A swinging' combination of evocative archival and eye-popping
contemporary color photography showcases landmark creations
by the likes of George Barris (i.e., "Ala Cart"
and "Twister T"), Ed "Big Daddy" Roth
(i.e., "Beatnik Bandit" and "Outlaw"),
and Boyd Coddington
(i.e., "Smoothster"), as well as cars that were
crafted by lesser-known builders but, nonetheless, earned
a fair share of renowned. In all, a celebration of nearly
40 fantastic hot rods.
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