Build Your Own Sports Car: On a budget |  | Author: Chris Gibbs
Publisher: J H Haynes & Co Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 56,552
Media: Hardcover
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1844253910
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.28721
EAN: 9781844253913
ASIN: 1844253910
Publication Date: February 22, 2007
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Product Description
Provides a step-by-step illustrated guide to building a two-seater, open-top sports car using standard tools, basic skills and low-cost materials. This text shows how to make the chassis, suspension components and bodywork, and advises on how to modify and use cheap but serviceable mechanical components from a Ford Sierra donor vehicle.
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 Must Have December 29, 2007
C. Thorburn (Renfrewshire)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is a must have for anyone even contemplating building a car from scratch. No it does not go into great detail about making fibreglass panels etc but then again a sierra manual doesn't cover diesel engines or specialist equipment, you would be expected to buy a book or do a college course to be able to do this and the same would go for spray painting I would imagine.
What this book does is give a good grounding for building a car from scatch. I have a lot of my steel sitting in my garage ready to go.
Buy this book you won't regret it.
Haynes Roadster July 11, 2008
Mr. R. J. Deacon (UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you have always fancied building a 7 style sportscar but were put of by the price of most kits then this could be the book for you. The book details how to build a complete car from fabricating the chassis to passing the SVA, some areas are covered better that others but overall it's very good and tells you most of what you need to know. As you can purchase parts and materials as you require them you don't need to buy everything at once. Chris Gibbs together with Martin Keenan have designed a very solid chassis which will build into a very nice finished car. A growing list of companies are supporting the roadster which mean if you don't fancy getting covered in fibreglass you can but the bits ready made. Help is also available on the dedicated Haynes Forum, go on buy a copy and get the garage cleared out you know you want to. Me I started building mine a few days ago.
The basics of building a DIY car November 13, 2009
C. McCormack
My main reason for buying this book was to get an idea of how large a task constructing a DIY sports car would be, and what a home-build would cost compared to an off-the-shelf kit car. For this, the book was excellent; it covered the various stages of preparation, purchasing, construction and registration from start to finish, along with necessary tools and training. It's not a complete guide, so you won't be able to take a welding kit, a scrap car and some steel and get going. Well, you probably could, but I'm guessing you'd run into problems soon enough. It does lay out the process which the author went through to get further skills+information, and allows you to do the same.
Plenty of photos and 3D CAD drawings are included, along with detailed plans of the parts you'll need to manufacture. These work well in clarifying the text, which is already very readable and straightforward. An appendix contains further information on useful company contacts, recommended reading and useful websites - note that I haven't yet used or even looked at the sites mentioned, but from previous experience with motor enthusiast groups I imagine they are very helpful.
In all, it was an interesting and informative book. My plan is now definitely to build one, once time and space are a bit more convenient.
Build your own sportscar October 15, 2009
Mr. J. C. Flegg (Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK)
This book is a must have for anyone considering building a 7 style roadster. Even if you are not building this particular model of the seven roadster a lot of the information contained within this book will be of great benefit to any builder. This book is a detailed build manual with drawings of every part you will need to buy or fabricate to finish the car to a very high standard. It shows you how to build to a tight budget or if you so desire spend spend spend!
 very clear but not enough in-depth July 13, 2007
Koen P. (Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
As I am seriously thinking of building my own type of "locost" sports car, I was looking for some in-depth information. This book is very clear and well thought of, explaining about every step in the creation process of "building your own sports car", but my opinion is that the author wants to tell you too much in too less pages. Especially the chapter about manufacturing grp moulds and mouldings for the body panels is over way too quick. You definitely need other publications and some surfing to find out the real finesses.
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