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Total Performance Catalog
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Total Performance Catalog

Over 140 pages of street rod products for 1923 to 1934 hot rods. Bodies-Chassis, Front Ends-Rear Ends. CHECK IT OUT YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED.

 

Build Your Own T Bucket
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Build Your Own T Bucket

Everything that you would need to know to build a Total Performance T-Bucket is located in this manual! Step by step instructions with isometric drawings make building a T-Bucket simple and fun. Every aspect is covered including a final checklist before the maiden voyage with your new creation (we even list a cleaning proceedure!). Illustrations are also included for most of the items in our catalog for you do-it-yourselfers. A must for anyone building or thinking about building a T-Bucket!!

*Included with Basic T Kit.

*Illustrations are to serve as representation of the parts. They are not meant to be accurate schematics.

 

Build Your Own T in PDF Format
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Build Your Own T in PDF Format

We took our 1923 T Assembly Manual and created downloadable computer files from it. Once you've ordered, you can download the files in the members section, to read our print at your leisure. Buy only the part that interests you. Purchase any 7 sections over time, and the entire manual will become available to you for download. Step by step instructions with isometric drawings make building a T-Bucket simple and fun. Every aspect is covered including a final checklist before the maiden voyage with your new creation (we even list a cleaning proceedure!). Fabrication blueprints are also included for every part, right down to the smallest bracket for you do-it-yourselfers. A must for anyone building or thinking about building a T-Bucket!!

 

Pro Street Manual
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Pro Street Manual

Build your own Pro Street "T" with this easy-to-follow TOTAL PERFORMANCE manual.

 

How To Build Hot Rod Chassis'
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How To Build Hot Rod Chassis'

"Anyone can build a Hot Rod chassis! All that is required is forethought, patience, a minimal mechanical talent, and a meager selection of tools. Plus good advance information. That's what you get with this book."

This is one of the best and most complete books on chassis modification and fabrication that we have ever run across! Covers issues such as fundamentals, reproduction and stock frames, modifying frames, designing and building a frame, plus much more. There is even a blueprint section that shows every dimension for building your own chassis from a 1926 Model T up to a 1954 Mercury Convertible!!

A must have for anyone thinking about building their own chassis!!

 

How To Build Fiberglass Hot Rods
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How To Build Fiberglass Hot Rods

This book covers the technology of fiberglass automobile bodies. Everything about hot rod and custom car building is covered in this book, from making molds to laying up fiberglass to working with aftermarket Glass bodies. This manual is a must for any rodder who is thinking of building his own design, or modifying something that already exists.

 

Street Rodder Chassis and Suspension Handbook
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Street Rodder Chassis and Suspension Handbook

Street Rodder magazine has been the leading resource for street rod enthusiasts for decades. The experts at Street Rodder have now compiled a comprehensive handbook on one of the most critical areas of street rodding - the chassis. Proper chassis building is complex - an area where many enthusiasts make mistakes. By learning the fundamentals of chassis building and suspension design, you may avoid costly errors. The information in this book will give you some of the knowledge to help you properly design and build your chassis and hang your suspension.

 

The Car Builders Handbook
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The Car Builders Handbook

By Doug McCleary. A fully illustrated handbook to guide a novice or first-timer through the process of assembling a full-size, street-legal car or hot rod from a pre-manufactured kit. Subjects covered include selecting the right kit, assembly, donor cars, chassis, engine, transmission, and more.

 

Basic Hot Rods
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Basic Hot Rods

Tex Smith does it again. The latest book from Tex Smith’s Hot Rod Library is about one of the oldest/newest trends in hot rodding...Basic Hot Rodding. The title says it all: "Building Guide For Basic Hot Rods". Affordable and Affunable! The oldest/newest trend in hot rodding has been part of the modified car scene since the l920s. Sometimes basic hot rodding is blinded by all the glitter and glamour of the high-dollar show concept rods and customs, but every experienced rodder is quick to point out that the most fun with a hot rod is with one that doesn't require major maintenance just for a ten mile stroll. It is all here, with an emphasis on ideas for the amateur and experienced builder alike. Roadsters, coupes, late models, guaranteed to wet the appetite of the most jaded hot rod enthusiast fed up with belly-button high-buck garage queens.

 

Roaring Roadsters 2
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Roaring Roadsters 2

Crammed with over 900 original photos and written by a driver who was in the thick of wheel-to-wheel competition, Don Radbruch has compiled the definitive coast to coast, border to border history of track roadster racing. Cover art is by the legendary Bob McCoy and a special section is devoted today's track roadsters for the street.

 

Hot Rod History
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Hot Rod History

Written by Tom Medley. As the originator of the Stroker McGurk cartoon character and one of the very first employees at Hot Rod Magazine, Medley speaks from a lifetime of involvement in this volume. Coverage includes the earliest days at Bonneville, the southern California scene, circle track roadster racing, Muroc Lake, etc. Includes brief biographies of early pioneers such as Ed Winfield, Alex Xydias, Ray Brown, Wally Parks, the Spalding brothers, etc. Over 675 photos of truely fascinating performance cars of the 1920's, 30's and 40's.

 

Basic Auto Electricity Book
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Basic Auto Electricity Book

This comprehensive book includes a 8 1/2" x 14" pullout wiring diagram. Chapters include: * What is electricity? * What makes up a circuit? * Step-by-step instructions on selecting component sizes. * Series vs. parallel circuits. * Circuit tracing. * Designing YOUR cars system. * Ammeters and voltmeters. * About relays with 3 "Trick" plans * Quick tips, planning and more..

 

How To Chop Tops
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How To Chop Tops

Written by Tex Smith. Likely the most comprehensive book ever written on the complex topic of lowering or "chopping" the top of a car. Step-by-step instructions provide the information necessary for performing this task yourself or for hiring the work to be performed by others. Over 740 photos and illustrations, specific techniques for over 50 different models and series of cars, coverage of race cars, show cars, sedans, trucksm coupes, etc. 220 pages.

 

How To Draw Cars
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How To Draw Cars

This book contains over 200 pages on everything anyone needs to know to go from simple doodles to a professional drawing. It contains practical, illustrated instruction on everything from tracing, drawing, and painting cars to designing customs, rods, and dream cars of your own. In addition, there is a section on computer art, as well as a bibliography chapter which hi-lights some of the more prominent automotive artists of the day.

 

Complete Chrysler Hemi
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Complete Chrysler Hemi

This book has it all: Chrysler - DeSoto - Dodge Hemis are covered in detail for street, race, marine and restoration in blown and naturally aspirated forms. This book is the complete source for Hemi fanatics. It includes in-depth build-ups and covers everything from the best traditional tricks to the latest in fuel injection adaptations. Complete identification and specifications for all models are given. Also included are Polyspheres and the new 426 crate motors.

 

Holley Tech Book
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Holley Tech Book

Everything you need to know about custom tuning and troubleshooting the Holley 4150 HP and Dominator HP carburetors. Includes information on machining base plates and changing linkages or cams; 2-circuit and 3-circuit carburetor metering blocks and main bodies; idle and main circuit modifications.

 

 
 


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