Creating door skins, fenders, hoods, and a myriad of other components from sheet metal is a crucial skill for restoring muscle cars, building custom parts for hot rods, and fabricating parts for classic or competition cars. This book shows the inclined enthusiast how to design and fabricate with inexpensive and simple tools as well as how to use more specialized tools, such as an English wheel.

The book also covers some of the more exotic tools, equipment, and techniques, but the emphasis is largely on the reliable basics. The book explains simple to complex metal performing procedures. How to determine elastic limits as well as how to shrink and expand metal, heating and annealing, and many other metal working techniques. With 144 pages & 385 colour photos. SB.

Publisher: Brooklands Books

Status: Out of Print (No Stock)

Number of pages: 144

Binding: SBD