How to Restore and Customize Auto Upholstery and Interiors
“Where does the proud owner of a cherished car spend the most time? Inside the car, meaning the look and feel of the interior and upholstery are top priorities, especially for builders and buyers of custom cars.

This book provides detailed coverage of upholstery and interior options, including the variety of materials, projected costs, tools used, and more. The information is complemented by sequences of step-by-step, how-to photography.

The information and photos will prove highly valuable to hands-on builders as well as car owners who hire professionals for their projects.

How to Restore Your Collector Car
Following the popular first edition, this all-Colour edition features updated chapters that reflect the changes and advances in products, techniques and laws. This hands-on guide covers all major restoration processes in an easy-to-understand, easy-to-use format.

Expert chapters explain tasks such as degreasing, welding, metal repair, electrics, painting, and more. Step-by-step colour photos help you restore it right and save money too and contains 300 colour illustrations.

How To Restore Your Motorcycle
Organized by major sub-assemblies like engines, frames, suspension, wheels and tires, brakes, and bodywork, the text and photo sequences featured here outline repair fundamentals and parts sources, and advise owners when to repair and when to replace. Care is taken to offer advice applicable to U.S., British, German, Italian, and Japanese bikes (the latter of which have previously gone largely ignored) in all four-stroke and classic two-stroke configuirations. An appendix features a resource list and bibliography. Mark Zimmerman, the technical editor of Old Bike Journal, has also written for American Iron and Classic Bike. Contains 300 black and white illustrations.

How to Restore Metal Auto Trim
Whether youre restoring your vehicle for show or personal enjoyment, this book provides basic, step-by-step information for restoring and repairing metal trim pieces on your vintage car or truck. Plus information on all the necessary tools and materials essential for metal trim work repair, including what youll need, where to purchase items, and how to use the tools and materials. Covers the repair of stainless steel and aluminum trim, including decorative strips, fenders, bumpers, hub caps, wheel covers, and door and trunk handles with 150 black & white illustrations.

How to Tune & Modify Engine Management Systems
Drawing on a wealth of knowledge and experience and a background of more than 1,000 magazine articles on the subject, engine control expert Jeff Hartman explains everything from the basics of engine management to the building of complicated project cars.

Hartman has substantially updated the material from his classic 1993 title Fuel Injection to address the incredible developments in automotive fuel injection technology from the past decade, including the multitude of import cars that are the subject of so much hot rodding today.

Hartman's text is extremely detailed and logically arranged to help reader’s better understand this complex topic. Includes 200 colour photos.

How to Custom Paint Damn Near Anything
The Discovery Channels Monster Garage series is one of the most popular shows on television today, and the line of branded how-to books are designed to satisfy the urges of viewers and fans eager to get their hands dirty trying some of the techniques on the show. How To Paint Damn Near Anything is the third book in the series, and contains the tricks and techniques required to transform a battered beater into a show-stopping street beauty. The reader is shown in step-by-step photographs how to take a project from bare metal to completed custom paint. The book would cover the basics of planning a custom paint job, preparing the surface, laying primer and final coats, and adding custom touches such as pinstriping, flames, and pearl coats. - The painting techniques used by the established professionals on the popular Discovery Channel series, Monster Garage, are brought to life in this illustrated how-to book. - Step-by-step photos and instructions take you through the paint process, from planning the job and applying the base coat through to applying the finishing custom touches. Airbrushing custom graphics, pin striping, painting flames (regular and tribal) and custom-painting motorcycle and racing helmets.

Motor City Dream Garages
There isn't another place in the world that can match Detroit's automotive history. For nearly a century, what was conceived, designed, produced, and marketed from this town ruled the roads. So it only stands to reason that the Motor City is likely to host some of the country's greatest collector garages.

From the personal home of the man who put America on wheels to the posh residences of current automotive icons such as Bob Lutz, Motor City Dream Garages takes readers on a guided tour of 20-plus of Motown's most interesting garages.

Going beyond even these fantastic “garagemahal’s”, this book also takes readers inside select company garages for exclusive looks at the unique and important collections amassed by companies such as General Motors and Roush Industries (parent company to Roush Racing, owned by Jack Roush).

If you like both garages and the beautiful machines within, this book is for you!

Performance Welding Handbook
Metal fabricators of every ilk, whether theyre working on race cars, experimental aircraft, or custom motorcycles, will benefit from this updated guide to top-quality welding. Performance Welding demonstrates the newest fabricating techniques and covers the latest in welding equipment.

This complete guide written by NASA welding consultant Richard Finch helps a fabricator select the proper equipment, prepare jigs, and effectively weld 4130 steel, stainless steel, aluminium, and magnesium. It also covers plasma cutting, the technique used extensively on Monster Garage that has revolutionized metal working. This is the second edition with 200 colour

Supercharging, Turbocharging and Nitrous Oxide Performance
This is a complete guide to selecting, installing, and tuning forced-induction fuel/air systems. Everything involved with these systems will be covered, including assessing power goals, component selection, engine preparation, tools, installation procedures, tuning, vehicle modifications, driveability, and sources.