Triumph Motorcycle Restoration
As popular as the Triumph Twins were in the 60s and 70s, they are quite possibly more popular now. The new book offers complete start-to-finish assembly and restoration sequences on two Triumph Twins, a 1963 Bonneville and a 1969 Bonneville. Also included is the start-to-finish assembly of the 1969 engine and transmission. Rather than try to describe the miniscule differences that often separated one year from another, this book offers a colour gallery with left and right side views of all significant models from 1959 to 1970. With over 450 colour photos, Triumph Motorcycle Restoration offers hard-core how-to help for anyone who wants to repair or restore their own Triumph twin. Learn how to: Assemble the engine. Assemble the whole bike. Make/size cables. Pick the right coatings/paint.

Ultimate Sheet Metal Fabrication Build from Scratch with Aluminum & Steel
Over eleven chapters and over 350 photos will teach you how to layout a project, stretch and shrink, build simple tooling, use the English Wheel, weld aluminium and steel and choose the right material.

In an age when most products come off an assembly line at the rate of hundreds or thousands per hour an increasing number of individuals yearn to build a fender, hood or side cover by hand. Whether you're restoring an old Packard, building a unique hot rod, customizing your Harley-Davidson, or trying to keep an old biplane in the air, the parts you require can't be purchased from a catalogue.

Eleven chapters cover: Design and Layout, Tools and Materials, and Welding Sheet Metal. Included are Fabrication Sequences with skilled craftsmen like Ron Covell, Steve Davis, Bo Olson and Bob Munroe. Over 350 photographs document the creation of a motorcycle fender, an automobile fender, part of an airplane cowl, a hot rod deck lid, the body of a pedal car and a blower scoop.

Presented here is the information you need to build your own sheet metal parts from steel or aluminium. From simple hand work with a hammer and dolly to sophisticated shaping with large power tools, this book covers the methods you need to shape sheet metal.

Calvin Wan's Drifting Performance Handbook
Drifting started as a niche motorsport among Japanese-American Californians, but has quickly evolved into a full-fledged competitive motorsport involving everyone from kids in the Midwest to a 55-year-old World Rally Championship Driver. This is the first how-to book to focus on both how to properly prepare a car to compete in drifting events, and how to drive it effectively in those events. Written by one of the original American drifters, it expertly covers car preparation, driving techniques, competition rules, and much more. Drawing on an extensive storehouse of knowledge and using full-colour photography, diagrams, and charts to support his text, Calvin Wan explains the theories behind every aspect of the sport. For those who want to do it, those who like to watch, and those who simply seek to understand, this is the quintessential guide to drifting.

Carroll Smith's Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners and Plumbing Handbook - Technical Guide for Racer, Restorer and Builder
This complete guide analyzes the thousands of options available and shows you how to choose the correct fastener for any application, whether it be racing, street performance or restoration. Plus important information on thread cutting, torque, material selection, inserts, panel fasteners and much more with 115 black & white illustrations and 221 diagrams.

Dream Garages
So you've got the chequered-flag floor tiles. The NASCAR worthy aluminium jack and a gleaming set of Snap-On Tools. But chances are that your garage pales in comparison to the automotive shrines expertly detailed in this book. The cars, personalities and endless garage wall memorabilia come to life in the excellent colour photos printed in thick stock. "It is truly a satisfying read. "Road and Track "It is almost impossible to put this book down once you start reading it." Hemmings Classic Car "What makes this book a winner: any hardcore enthusiast can relate to it. It's funny, too, and beautifully photographed. In fact, it's worth the cash for Peter Egan's forward alone, which beautifully sums up our fanaticism." Classic & Sports Car (UK) For car and motorcycle enthusiasts there is scarcely a more sacred space than the garage. This is where it all happens: the restoring of relics and resurrecting of wrecks, the polishing of tall tales and tail fins, and friendships formed over a shared passion for automotive speed and style. Dream Garages takes the reader into more than 20 of these havens for the motor-mad. Some are beautifully conceived automotive shrines, some are grease-monkey heavens, and others are accidental creations. Dream Garages offers a profile of each garage and its owner, along with fabulous images from top automotive photographers including Peter Vincent, Robert Genat, James Mann, and David Gooley.

Eddie Paul's Paint & Bodywork Handbook: Secrets from a Master Customizer
Appeals to millions of viewers who tune into custom car reality shows on nearly every cable network from MTV and Speed TV to the Discovery Channel Eye-catching design and photography accurately reflect the attitude and aptitude of today's custom car builder Eddie Pauls Paint and Bodywork Handbook will inspire readers to see their cars and motorcycles as more than vehicles, and see the "customizer" in themselves.

This innovative and exciting guide: Incorporates 300+ great how-to photos and practical advice for everything from restoring and customizing a vehicles body to more elaborate skills like shaving door handles Covers paint and bodywork techniques to guide beginning restorers, and inspire experienced customizers Explores and explains the tools and machines required for every "dream garage" Speaks to the possibility of everyday car and bike enthusiasts creating their own&

Eddie Pauls Custom Bodywork Handbook
Learn the latest techniques from master customizer Eddie Paul! More than 200 dynamic step-by-step colour photos demonstrate 20 projects ranging from old school hot rods to modern tuner cars. In this exciting new reference Paul covers frenching taillights, adding spoilers and aero kits, patching metal, installing "scissor" doors, and old-school favourites such as hiding door handles and antennas, and chopping tops. Veteran car restorers, hot-rod builders, members of the tuner car GT hip-hop crowd and car buffs in general are sure to discover new skills and more reasons to love customizing in this revved up resource. 20 customizing projects cover simple to advanced skills. More than 200 dynamic colour photos guide restorers and car buffs through improvements and step-by-step instruction from the "King" of customizing.

Hot Rod Kings - Top Traditional Rod and Custom Builders
"Hot Rod Kings, by Kevin Thomson, is written in a quite intimate way to make you feel you are being taken on a personal trip through the U.S. to the workshops of eleven of today's most highly respected hot rod builders and customizers - meeting larger than life characters and meaner than mean machines on the way. Thomson and Perry get to the heart of what makes today's hot rodder's tick; we discover where these men came from, what inspires them, and what their day-to-day lives are really like. With Perry's photography of the shop operations, cars in progress and some of the finished rods accompanied by the prose of Kevin 'BoBo Tech' Thomson, this is a tasty slice of the true hot rod way of life." Motorbar.co.uk Here are the hot rodder's we'll worship tomorrow. Kevin Thomson and David Perry venture into the shops of all-steel apostles Cole Foster, Gary Howard, Keith Tardel, the Kennedy Brothers, Jimmy White, Mike Smith, Rudy Rodriguez, Scott Mugford, and Mercury Charlie and offer profiles of today's top hot rod and custom builders. Hot rodder's themselves, Thomson and Perry get to the heart of what makes today's hot rodder's go, how they think, who they are, and what makes them builders worth watching.

Hot Rod Roots - A Tribute to the Pioneers
Here are hot rodding's true pioneers - the guys who raced the lakes in the mid-century, the ones who broke the records, and those who, through sheer ingenuity, transformed discarded car bodies, flathead V-8s, and four-bangers into the stuff of myth. In essays by some of the most respected journalists in hot rodding today, these icons of the early days come to life, and the history of hot rodding unfolds in all its gritty glory. Featured throughout are rare photographs drawn from the archives of the American Hot Rod Foundation, an institution dedicated to preserving, promoting, and celebrating the history of hot rodding.

Compiled by noted hot rod author Dain Gingerelli, the essays in Hot Rod Roots take up topics crucial to the development of hot rodding from the 1920s to the early 60s: Robert Genat explores the symbiotic relationship between hot rodder’s and the U.S. military during World War II; Pat Ganahl delves into the birth of the belly tank and its lasting effects on the sport; Greg Sharp tracks hot rodding's impact on the development of circle-track racing; Gingerelli explains how the sanctioning of quarter-mile drag racing accelerated hot rodding’s growth; Ken Gross documents the effect of enthusiast magazines and car shows; and Mark Morton shows how hot rodding's early roots will always remain a part of the sport.

This book also includes a foreword by So-Cal Speed Shop founder and dry lakes pioneer Alex Xydias.