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The Hot Rod Creed
It goes like this.
Wide tires and traction bars
And headers to make her loud
We don't care how fast she runs
Just as long she goes WABBOW!
Wide tires and traction bars
And headers to make her loud
We don't care how fast she runs
Just as long she goes WABBOW!
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Muscle Cars!!
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – Vintage Car Restoration
Chapter 2 – Things You Need
Chapter 3 – Before You Begin
Chapter 4 – Types Of Cars To Restore
Chapter 5 – Interior Restoration
Chapter 6 – Body Restoration
Chapter 7 – Mechanical Restoration
Chapter 8 – Accessories
Chapter 9 – Electrical Components.
Chapter 10 – Reassembly
Chapter 11 – Where To Get Help
Chapter 12 – Care Of Your Restored Car
Chapter 13 – Professional Car Restoration
Chapter 14 - Car Shows
Chapter 15 – Where To Get Parts
Chapter 16 – Twenty Quick Tips For Car Junkies
Chapter 17 – Top Websites For Car Junkies
Chapter 18 – The Car Is Yours!
This Is Giving You A Preview Of The Book!
Chapter 1
Do you love old cars? Vintage cars are shown by collectors throughout the country in shows and admired wherever they go. Owners of older cars that have been virtually brought back to life have a double sense of pride if they have performed the restoration themselves.
There is a difference between automobile restoration and simple rebuilding. A rebuilt car can contain any type of part. True restoration, consists of getting as much authenticity into the automobile as possible, right down to the hub caps. The car will only retain the value if it is restored back to its original condition, not rebuilt into a different car. While “pimping” a car may be popular at the moment, a restored car is supposed to take us back in time, not remind us of the present.
The process of car restoration encompasses not just the parts of the car that can be seen by others, but also the mechanical components should also be restored to their original condition.
Vintage car restoration is an art form unto itself. It takes people years to restore classic, vintage cars properly.
Vintage automobile restoration involves the process of disassembling the entire car, cleaning and either replacing or repairing the original parts and then reassembling the vehicle. In order for the car to maintain its original value, it must be restored with all of the proper parts. In most cases, the engine must be completely rebuilt.
A person who wants to restore a vintage automobile should have extensive knowledge about cars. Mechanical knowledge is as important as doing body work to the car. In most automotive shops, body work and mechanical work are two different trades. Someone who wants to restore vintage cars has to know both aspects of car repair.
In addition, a car restoration includes the interior of the car. It is usually more desirable to repair the upholstery, if at all possible. Naturally, you will not be able to get a replacement seat for a 1955 Chevy, but you can recover the seats in materials that mirror those used for a 1955 Chevy.
A car that is merely replaced with lookalike parts has not been properly restored. A vintage car can be worth quite a bit of money to a collector if it has been carefully restored to its original condition. This usually means that you will have to do quite a bit of searching to find parts and paint for your car.
Speaking of paint, you will want to use the original paint, if possible, to repaint the car. There are many different places where you can purchase the original car paint, or one as close as possible. We will be discussing places to purchase parts and accessories later in this book.
You need to have patience, time, space to work and money in which to buy parts and materials.
Most important of all, you must have a love for cars. If you love old cars and do not want to see them put to rest in the junk yard, this is your opportunity to give them a new lease on life.
Although it can be costly, the restoration can be done over a period of time to accommodate your budget. You will need a place to work on the car and storage for the automobile when it is not in use.
There are business that practice the art of vintage car restoration. They can generally restore a vintage auto in much less time than you will be able. Those who collect automobiles or do not have the time or inclination to work on the projects often send their cars to such businesses.
Money can also be made by learning how to restore vintage automobiles. Once you have successfully completed one restoration project, you may find you miss your hobby. It is common for people who restore automobiles to continue with this hobby throughout their lifetime. As they can only use so many cars, they often sell those they no longer want and make quite a profit.
Vintage automobile restoring is an art form unto itself. If you plan on doing this as a weekend project, it can take years. It is, however, well worth it. There is nothing like revving up the engine in the car that you lovingly restored back to life.
Tell me where to send the rest of the E-Book and the Newsletter.
Muscle Cars!!
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – Vintage Car Restoration
Chapter 2 – Things You Need
Chapter 3 – Before You Begin
Chapter 4 – Types Of Cars To Restore
Chapter 5 – Interior Restoration
Chapter 6 – Body Restoration
Chapter 7 – Mechanical Restoration
Chapter 8 – Accessories
Chapter 9 – Electrical Components.
Chapter 10 – Reassembly
Chapter 11 – Where To Get Help
Chapter 12 – Care Of Your Restored Car
Chapter 13 – Professional Car Restoration
Chapter 14 - Car Shows
Chapter 15 – Where To Get Parts
Chapter 16 – Twenty Quick Tips For Car Junkies
Chapter 17 – Top Websites For Car Junkies
Chapter 18 – The Car Is Yours!
This Is Giving You A Preview Of The Book!
Chapter 1
Do you love old cars? Vintage cars are shown by collectors throughout the country in shows and admired wherever they go. Owners of older cars that have been virtually brought back to life have a double sense of pride if they have performed the restoration themselves.
There is a difference between automobile restoration and simple rebuilding. A rebuilt car can contain any type of part. True restoration, consists of getting as much authenticity into the automobile as possible, right down to the hub caps. The car will only retain the value if it is restored back to its original condition, not rebuilt into a different car. While “pimping” a car may be popular at the moment, a restored car is supposed to take us back in time, not remind us of the present.
The process of car restoration encompasses not just the parts of the car that can be seen by others, but also the mechanical components should also be restored to their original condition.
Vintage car restoration is an art form unto itself. It takes people years to restore classic, vintage cars properly.
Vintage automobile restoration involves the process of disassembling the entire car, cleaning and either replacing or repairing the original parts and then reassembling the vehicle. In order for the car to maintain its original value, it must be restored with all of the proper parts. In most cases, the engine must be completely rebuilt.
A person who wants to restore a vintage automobile should have extensive knowledge about cars. Mechanical knowledge is as important as doing body work to the car. In most automotive shops, body work and mechanical work are two different trades. Someone who wants to restore vintage cars has to know both aspects of car repair.
In addition, a car restoration includes the interior of the car. It is usually more desirable to repair the upholstery, if at all possible. Naturally, you will not be able to get a replacement seat for a 1955 Chevy, but you can recover the seats in materials that mirror those used for a 1955 Chevy.
A car that is merely replaced with lookalike parts has not been properly restored. A vintage car can be worth quite a bit of money to a collector if it has been carefully restored to its original condition. This usually means that you will have to do quite a bit of searching to find parts and paint for your car.
Speaking of paint, you will want to use the original paint, if possible, to repaint the car. There are many different places where you can purchase the original car paint, or one as close as possible. We will be discussing places to purchase parts and accessories later in this book.
You need to have patience, time, space to work and money in which to buy parts and materials.
Most important of all, you must have a love for cars. If you love old cars and do not want to see them put to rest in the junk yard, this is your opportunity to give them a new lease on life.
Although it can be costly, the restoration can be done over a period of time to accommodate your budget. You will need a place to work on the car and storage for the automobile when it is not in use.
There are business that practice the art of vintage car restoration. They can generally restore a vintage auto in much less time than you will be able. Those who collect automobiles or do not have the time or inclination to work on the projects often send their cars to such businesses.
Money can also be made by learning how to restore vintage automobiles. Once you have successfully completed one restoration project, you may find you miss your hobby. It is common for people who restore automobiles to continue with this hobby throughout their lifetime. As they can only use so many cars, they often sell those they no longer want and make quite a profit.
Vintage automobile restoring is an art form unto itself. If you plan on doing this as a weekend project, it can take years. It is, however, well worth it. There is nothing like revving up the engine in the car that you lovingly restored back to life.
Tell me where to send the rest of the E-Book and the Newsletter.
Horse Power The Right Way
Once you have built that big bad engine for your muscle car, you'll need to be 100% sure that a few other things match the engine that you just built, this is another one of those times when you need to think about what it is you want the car to do, is it a daily driver, or a race car / show car.
What you use the car to do will change the set up of things like the rear end, suspension, and transmission immensely, you can divide the two things evenly, but it usually doesn't work very well to put a race engine on the street as your daily driver.
To get lower ET's at the drag strip the racers are usually running a low rear end gear, or ring and pinion set to lower their time when they run the ¼ mile, and the lower the rear gear, the harder it becomes to drive the car on the street every day.
Most of the real racers are running a gear set that has a 4.30:1 ratio or a a lot lower, while most street cars don't run a gear lower then 3.73:1, as a matter of fact it's more common to see even higher gears then that on the street, like 2.90:1.
Obviously the lower the gear in the rear end of your car, the harder it will be to take your car on the freeway around your city, the engine will rap out at a lower rpm, but this is ideal for a race car, when you build your engine, get the company that you buy your cam from to recommend the right gear set.
If you do what they tell you you'll get much better results with your car, but the gearing in the rear end is not the only thing to consider, if your running a four or five speed transmission in your car, you should know the first gear ratio, is it 1:1 or less like .85:1 or .90:1 this will help you also.
If your running an automatic transmission you'll need to match a stall converter to your cam shaft, which means that you need to look at the power band of your cam shaft, if it runs from 3,000 rpm to 6,500 rpm, then you'll need a converter that stalls at 3,000 rpm.
Let me give a very basic explanation of stall, with a standard transmission you'd have a clutch so you could get your car to it's power band before stepping off the clutch pedal, a stall converter does the same thing for an automatic transmission.
But it has some draw backs, your car won't drive normally until you hit your transmission stall speed, it will seem like you don't have the power that you should, or seem doggie, these are reasons to build a street engine for the street, rather then a race engine that you drive on the street.
You can't have the best of both worlds, and expect your car to be reliable for every day street driving, you can build a street / strip car, but you'll always give up some of the good reliable street habits of your car when you do, you'll always have to give up something to gain power in your engine.
Muscle Car Registry
I've been in the automotive business for about 20 or 25 years, I have worked in all facets of the industry, from parts to restoration, all different makes and models, I just want to keep people interested in the old cars because it's where my heart is.
http://autorevival.com
What you use the car to do will change the set up of things like the rear end, suspension, and transmission immensely, you can divide the two things evenly, but it usually doesn't work very well to put a race engine on the street as your daily driver.
To get lower ET's at the drag strip the racers are usually running a low rear end gear, or ring and pinion set to lower their time when they run the ¼ mile, and the lower the rear gear, the harder it becomes to drive the car on the street every day.
Most of the real racers are running a gear set that has a 4.30:1 ratio or a a lot lower, while most street cars don't run a gear lower then 3.73:1, as a matter of fact it's more common to see even higher gears then that on the street, like 2.90:1.
Obviously the lower the gear in the rear end of your car, the harder it will be to take your car on the freeway around your city, the engine will rap out at a lower rpm, but this is ideal for a race car, when you build your engine, get the company that you buy your cam from to recommend the right gear set.
If you do what they tell you you'll get much better results with your car, but the gearing in the rear end is not the only thing to consider, if your running a four or five speed transmission in your car, you should know the first gear ratio, is it 1:1 or less like .85:1 or .90:1 this will help you also.
If your running an automatic transmission you'll need to match a stall converter to your cam shaft, which means that you need to look at the power band of your cam shaft, if it runs from 3,000 rpm to 6,500 rpm, then you'll need a converter that stalls at 3,000 rpm.
Let me give a very basic explanation of stall, with a standard transmission you'd have a clutch so you could get your car to it's power band before stepping off the clutch pedal, a stall converter does the same thing for an automatic transmission.
But it has some draw backs, your car won't drive normally until you hit your transmission stall speed, it will seem like you don't have the power that you should, or seem doggie, these are reasons to build a street engine for the street, rather then a race engine that you drive on the street.
You can't have the best of both worlds, and expect your car to be reliable for every day street driving, you can build a street / strip car, but you'll always give up some of the good reliable street habits of your car when you do, you'll always have to give up something to gain power in your engine.
Muscle Car Registry
I've been in the automotive business for about 20 or 25 years, I have worked in all facets of the industry, from parts to restoration, all different makes and models, I just want to keep people interested in the old cars because it's where my heart is.
http://autorevival.com
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