How to Build Your Own Supercar (Essential Manual Series) - Softcover

Customer review from Amazon.co.uk, September 2008Having seen the finished vehicle at the Newark Kit Car Show earlier this year I expected this book to be good I didn't expect it to be this good! The useful information in this book is far more than any fibreglassing book I've read before, and I'm only part way through the book, which arrived today. The modest author seen at the show certainly can write as well as build cars, and this book is absolutely superb, giving the necessary info in an entertaining way, with good detail. What more can I say! I have no aspirations to build a Supercar (a more sedate form of transport is ideal for me), but if you have ANY interest in kit cars this is a must-have read, if only to wonder how the author has so much patience. I've now run out of superlatives!" Customer review from Amazon.co.uk, September 2008 Having seen the finished vehicle at the Newark Kit Car Show earlier this year I expected this book to be good - I didn't expect it to be this good! The useful information in this book is far more than any fibreglassing book I've read before, and I'm only part way through the book, which arrived today. The modest author seen at the show certainly can write as well as build cars, and this book is absolutely superb, giving the necessary info in an entertaining way, with good detail. What more can I say! I have no aspirations to build a Supercar (a more sedate form of transport is ideal for me), but if you have ANY interest in kit cars this is a must-have read, if only to wonder how the author has so much patience. I've now run out of superlatives! Customer review from Amazon.co.uk, September 2008 Having seen the finished vehicle at the Newark Kit Car Show earlier this year I expected this book to be good - I didn't expect it to be this good! The useful information in this book is far more than any fibreglassing book I've read before, and I'm only part way through the book, which arrived today. The modest author seen at the show certainly can write as well as build cars, and this book is absolutely superb, giving the necessary info in an entertaining way, with good detail. What more can I say! I have no aspirations to build a Supercar (a more sedate form of transport is ideal for me), but if you have ANY interest in kit cars this is a must-have read, if only to wonder how the author has so much patience. I've now run out of superlatives!

Using the author's one off mid-engined sports car as the featured build, this book is written to encourage and inspire you with your own automotive dreams. It describes the unique inexpensive ideas and techniques that were combined to achieve impressive results and lift the project car from average to outstanding. All the ideas can be adapted to solve your own problems and meet your own particular requirements. The book focuses mainly on fibreglass moulding and modification, including the manufacture of a stylish rear wing spoiler from a basic wooden mould to the construction of a pair of gull wing doors using the same method. It does not neglect other aspects of car building, with other sections covering such things as the vacuum forming of a pair of headlight fairings, how to ensure systems such as twin fuel tanks and mid-engined gear linkages work as intended and how the exhaust system was made. The final chapter lifts the lid on how to make a professional-looking leather trimmed interior. Two hundred and fifty detailed photographs, sectional views and exploded diagrams ensure maximum clarity.