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Build Your Own Sports Car for as Little as £250 and Race It!, 2nd Ed.In association with Amazon.comby: Ron Champion  Dewey Decimal Number: 629.222 EAN: 9781859606360 Edition: Second ISBN: 1859606369 Label: Haynes Publishing Languages: Manufacturer: Haynes Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: May 12, 2000 Publisher: Haynes Publishing Studio: Haynes Publishing Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Build a roadworthy two-seater open sports car for a fraction of the cost of a kit car! Using standard tools, basic skills and low-cost materials, this volume shows you how to make the chassis, suspension and bodywork, and advises you on how to modify and use inexpensive but serviceable mechanical components. Contains sections on improving handling, information on how to get through the Single Vehicle Approval test, and builders' own stories. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Just what I expectedI got exactly what I bought and in a very reasonable period of time. Quality was very good. Rating: - Everyone loves THE BOOK but---I am building a Locost sportscar from THE BOOK as we reverently refer to it. The builder is well advised to seek council [...] and be directed to the files of corrections to Ron's measurements and callouts. It will save miscut metal and under-engineered sections. Basically it is a good work, but for instance, no one would make lower A arms out of 3/4" 16 ga. round tubing. Our thinking is he meant either 1" dia. or 14 ga. tubing. Keith Williams Rating: - I Built One!Great book, made the process straightforward and understandable. If you simply follow the steps in the book you will end up with a really good little sports car. If you also incorporate some information from Caroll Smith and Allen Staninforth's books you will have a car that will beat the pants off a Caterham. Great read, empowering... even if you never build the car. Rating: - This is the beginningI know how to weld, cut metal, design and tune suspensions from scratch adapt junk to something useful, the list of things I can do seems endless sometimes. Before I got this book I could do none of these things THIS is the book that gave me the bug that bit me and inspired me to learn to do all these things and to search for knowledge online, in books etc. It all began with this book. This book has forced me to take back all my sarcastic cynical remarks about actually building your own car when ... Read More Rating: - We all can be car builders!!!I usually read this kind of books from cover to cover, and I did't thought it was going to be that exiting! I just can't wait to get started! I know almost nothing about mechanics, but this book shows everything so easy that I think I can do it by my self... The only "contra" is that maybe it will not come out for 250 (of any currency in the world) because it starts with a donnor car in good working condition bought for 75 pounds... I'd be glad to find something like that ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display 
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