Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119101 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

About the Author
Brian is an aircraft technician and former Royal Air Force apprentice, which gives him a thorough understanding of structures and systems. Ever since he could drive his hobby has been cars, and he has written articles for various car magazines relating to his build and restoration experiences: he thoroughly enjoys solving problems that such projects always throw up. Cars that have received treatment include a Dolomite Sprint-engined Triumph TR7, a Carlton Commando kit car, 1967 Austin Mini Moke and an original 1967 Cox GTM. That build featured many body modifications which provided useful fibreglass experience. Brian honed his self-taught fibreglassing skills by creating a unique road legal supercar from an advertising mock-up, the subject of this book.

Customer Reviews

Don't be without it
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!

If you want to know about GRP techniques buy another book
This guy wrote a book of how to imrove an already built sportscar(not supercar) exterior and interior.No chassis construction.Just 9 years of fiberglassing over an existing body of a 70s styled kit car!
If you want to know how door hinges bolt on fiberglass, buy this book.