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Books : How to Build a Cheap Sports Car (Motorbooks Workshop)In association with Amazon.comby: Keith Tanner  List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $19.77 You Save: $10.18 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 629.2221 EAN: 9780760322871 ISBN: 0760322872 Label: Motorbooks Manufacturer: Motorbooks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: December 18, 2005 Publisher: Motorbooks Studio: Motorbooks Sales Rank: 77712 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Share in the trials and tribulations of turning a bare frame and wrecked Miata into a racetrack demon, and learn how to build a sports car of your own along the way. This book provides specific answers to common questions and covers the entire building process, including the post-build fine-tuning of the car that is necessary to extract the car's full performance (and fun) potential. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - This one should get 6 stars!Just finished reading this very enjoyable book. Well written, fun, and very understandable explanations of technical concepts. Photo and text layouts outstanding, and no typos that I could find. A highly recommended companion to the "Champion" book, and/or any (especially US) Locost special builder, whether armchair or greasy fingered! Tanner now on my list of favorite automotive authors, right next to Staniforth and van Valkenburgh. Rating:  - Excellent build diary, a little light on "how to"I found this to be an excellent diary of one person's build of a custom sports car. It is well written and enjoyable to read, and the color photos and general production of the book are very good as well. The author tells the story of how he conceived of and built his own car, more or less step by step, and especially highlights the ups and downs of the process. A number of sidebars in the book go into more detail about technical topics, such as "bump steer". I gave it a 4 instead of a 5 because ... Read More Rating:  - OK book documents one mans projectMaybe I was expecting too much. The book documents one mans kit type project from frame to finish. I was looking for more technical information. The book was too superficial and did not go into the kind of detail I wanted. (The science of suspension geometry, frame design, etc.) I am interested in building a locost from the ground up. - No frame kit. For those looking to build a locost with a frame kit this is an enjoyable read. Rating: - Miata LocostThis book is an excellent place to start if you are considering building a locost. It is sort of a broad overview, as this guy bought a kit, but then methodically turned it into a supercar. The execution of the build is top notch, and I certainly learned a lot from the down-to-earth, yet genuinely entertaining writing style. If you think you may be ready to build a sports car of any variety, I would consider this book a necessity. Rating:  - Only good if you have a Miata as donor for your S 7This is a web site information about how someone built a Super 7 from pieces either bought from some dealer or taken from a Miata donor car. If you have any other model of donor car you will benefit little from reading this book, it falls far behind from Ron Champion's book, here you will be invited more to assemble the car than to buid it, really it describes just how to use parts from different sources plus the Miata. Browse for similar items by category:
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