How to Build A Pro Streetbike
Whether it's a big-bore, high-end custom sportbike you're after, or a naked, bare knuckles street fighting drag racer, this book has the goods for getting you there. In three different scenarios, the nation's top builders give blow-by-blow instructions for completely rebuilding three popular streetbikes - from performance modifications and exhaust systems to flawless finishes and detail work. Focusing on highly customized Hayabusa drag bikes, including a slammed and lowered Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa, John Dantzler of  the Charlotte, North Carolina shop Two Wheel Customs outlines the suspension and engine modifications that the serious street and quarter-mile racer can make. He takes a salvaged, late-model four-cylinder street machine and transforms it into the kind of machine that both professional stunt riders and corner-carving enthusiasts favor. Next, author Mike Seate covers the details on constructing and installing popular modifications -- everything from engine crash guards and wheelie bars to motocross-style handlebars and bikini fairings -- while stunt riders and street fighter builders from the United States and Europe weigh in with tips and advice. Last but not least, the builders at Wisconsins Patrick's Performance and South Carolina's Coastal Motorcycles provide a step-by-step account of the construction of two high-end custom sport bikes -- transforming a Yamaha YZF R-1 and a Suzuki GSX-R 1000 into the kind of machines that are eye-popping everywhere-on the streets or on the motorcycle show circuit.

How To Build A Cheap Sports Car
“This book is useful for Low cost builders because it focuses on the Miata (Mazda) as the donor vehicle, a car that is readily available ... it’s an instructive read.” Car and Driver

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.

How To Build A Classic Hot Rod V-8 Engine
This hands-on, how-to guide is the first to give thorough, detailed, and clearly illustrated instructions for a complete build up of these classics, including the Chevrolet 348-ci V-8 engine, the Chevrolet 409-ci V-8, the Lincoln flathead V-8, and the Ford flathead V-8/60 H.P. Long time automotive enthusiast and writer George McNicholl offers in-depth and hard-to-find information on engine components and alternative parts, along with parts numbers, current prices, machining procedures, assembly directions, and dynamometer information. His book, illustrated throughout with colour photographs, finally puts some of the world's great engines within reach of this generation's hot rodder.

How to Build A Hot Rod
This book is designed for anyone who has ever seen a hot rod and wondered, "How do I build one of those?" Whether you're a newcomer to the hobby or a seasoned, experienced builder, this book covers every aspect of building a hot rod from start to finish. Author Dennis Parks helps the reader select the right vehicle to build and leads them through the process of making it happen. He answers basic questions and sheds light on the entire process of building a hot rod with lots of no-nonsense advice for any degree of builder. Chapters include What to Build, Chassis, Preliminary Mock-up, Bodywork, Repair and Modifications, Drive Train Assembly, Paint Prep and Final Colour, Assembly, and Interior. Includes 300 colour and 50 black and white photos.

Dennis Parks is an automotive photojournalist and an established hot rod expert in his own right with published articles in more than a dozen enthusiast periodicals. Parks has also written a comprehensive guide on building hot rod Model A Fords, as well as other how-to guides for enthusiasts.

How To Custom Paint Your Motorcycle
We’re in the midst of the biggest boom in motorcycle customization since the days of Easy Rider. Today’s custom bikes are regarded as rolling art with custom paint jobs that can cost thousands - or even tens of thousands of dollars!

Custom painter and author JoAnn Bortles offers a primer on painting basics but mainly focuses on more elaborate paint schemes and techniques that produce head-turning results. Popular chopper and cruiser paint elements such as skulls, flames, and candy paints are covered, as are techniques for custom painting sport bikes.

How to Custom Paint Your Car
For custom car builders today, one of the biggest expenses—and a make-or-break features of the build—is the paint job. Now, with the expert help of one of the country’s top custom painters, readers can learn to custom paint their own cars, from design to finishing touches. With the attention to detail and keen sense of style that have made her the most sought-after custom painter working today, JoAnn Bortles offers step-by-step instructions for achieving that professional look at home.

Her book provides detailed advice on every step from base coating to artwork and airbrushing to clear coating and troubleshooting, with special emphasis on designing and executing elaborate paint schemes such as flames, skulls, murals, and pin striping. Clearly written and amply illustrated, this is the ultimate how-to-custom-paint guide. Also contains an excellent chapter on realistic flames as featured on the book's cover.

How to Photograph Cars
Capture the contours of your car with expert tips from professional photographer James Mann!

Everything you need, from selecting equipment and film to static and action photography and studio techniques is bound into this fabulous all-colour guide. High-quality photographs serve as examples of Mann’s techniques, enhanced by step-by-step instruction and images describing how to accomplish each successfully. Highlighted with necessary angles and techniques that embrace a professional magazine feature.

How To Pinstripe

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“Two thumbs up. Great book, well done.” Auto Art Magazine Even before the heyday of Von Dutch and Big Daddy, the ultimate way to personalize your car or motorcycle was to lay some wicked lines on top of the paintwork. Done with a steady hand and an eye for style, pinstripes speak volumes. In How to Pinstripe, acclaimed veteran striper Alan Johnson teaches you everything you need to know to get started, to further your mastery of the form, or to simply understand how a good design comes together. Following a primer on the history and evolution of pinstriping, this book launches into a step-by-step guide to the pinstriping process--from choosing paint and brushes that suit your style and abilities, to preparing surfaces, experimenting with symmetrical and asymmetrical designs, striping freehand, and using grids and patterns. While stressing the importance of finding your own style and having fun with the hobby, Johnson also explains the basics of color theory and unique considerations for antique and classic cars, hot rods and customs, and motorcycles. For more advanced pinstriper’s, there’s also tried-and-true advice on apprenticing and working car shows. Illustrated with colour photography throughout, How to Pinstripe is the perfect source for beginners and veterans alike.