| Race and Rally Car Sourcebook: The Guide to Building and Modifying a Competition Car | 
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Sales Rank: 171045
Category: Book
Author: Allan Staniforth
Publisher: Haynes Publishing
Studio: Haynes Publishing
Manufacturer: Haynes Publishing
Label: Haynes Publishing
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1859608469
Dewey Decimal Number: 629
UPC: 699414001675
EAN: 9781859608463
ASIN: 1859608469
Publication Date: April 1, 2002
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Product Description
Here is a thorough guide to build and modify your race or rally car. Descriptions of champion circuit, rally and hill-climb cars from Formula 750 to Formula One will help you keep your project in perspective. This is a simple and easy to follow do-it-yourself guide and is a must-have for race, rally or hill-climbing enthusiasts.
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 Excellent read February 19, 2008
I have all of Alan's books and I recommend this one the most. It is an excellent all around guide that includes much of the information found in his other books. Enjoyable to read with his sense of humor and very informative. I believe I could have designed my current car build using only this book even though I have more than a dozen other technical books on chassis design, suspension design, and other aspects of car building, modifying, and tuning. Highly recommended.
 Rustic and verbose July 7, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book creates the sensation that you have sat down at a British pub and your new mate started this whole business of "rally car racing" and he's retired so he wants to tell you his whole story now that he's got a firm grip on your ear. It certainly is folksy, charming and wordy, but if you don't mind reading endless, sort of amusing, anecdotes, letting you in on the real inside dope of who invented (and crashed) what, you may eventually get to something about building or modifying a car.
 Excellent knowledge source for the clubman August 28, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book for anyone wishing to enter the fields of competition car building, and car setup.
However, the material seems rather aged, and there are some mixup of facts in section about the Peugeot 205 at least.
The tyre data also seems to be out of date.
OH yeah September 23, 2005
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a spectacular story book, manual, tech book, HEY its all here and its all good. This book rocks. I have many books on this subject and I have carrol smiths books but this is the best book on the subject. I have made and prepped a lot of cars and I have a lot of books with the pretty pictures etc etc but somehow this is the one I end up reading at the end of the day. At crunch time the vital bit of info you need is probably in this book. If the name of the game is PRACTICAL and what you can really do and not what would be theoretically best but not possible then this book is it.
Competitors pit-pass; Step one. November 21, 2001
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
In my quest for knowledge relevant to designing, building and driving a light-weight, high-performance sportscar, I have bought and borrowed numerous books, magazines, plans and workshop-manuals.
This book has been one of the best of my many purchases.
My one regret is that I didn't have this book much earlier; I very nearly did, but when I began my project, "Race and Rally Car" looked wrong to my novices' eyes. I hadn't realised then that my planned sportscars were so closely related to Formula racecars in all their systems and dynamics.
Now, with the benefit of my researching/learning experience, I am able to appreciate just how valuable a source Mr Staniforths' book is!
This is a truly great picture/storybook for us petrol-heads, a practical guide, and a comprehensive reference, all based on the authors' own extensive experience as a race-car designer, builder, and driver.
Those years of hard-won experience left an empathetic awareness of the broad-ranging requirements of a novice. He has created this book with just the right mix of wit and serious technical detail to inspire and encourage the reader with doubts about their own ability to "give it a go".
It encompasses all that is important in building a fast sports or racecar, thoroughly covering topics like planning, design, building techniques, technology, testing and development. It features excellent illustrations, really inspiring photographs, and includes historical and anecdotal material of considerable value to any aspiring Murrays, Tauranacs or Schumakers among us. There is also a detailed source-index to other authoritative sources for more complete descriptions of processes that have been, of necessity, only lightly dealt with here.
Overall, it's an enjoyable read and a sound investment. I suspect that the more sophisticated features of my ultimate design will owe more to this than any other single book.
It deserves a place in your library.
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