Antique and Classic Cars - Their Maintenance and Operation: Book Two of Antique & Classic Cars - Hardcover

Wheatley, Richard C; Morgan, Brian

9780837602035: Antique and Classic Cars - Their Maintenance and Operation: Book Two of Antique & Classic Cars

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0837602033 ISBN 13: 9780837602035

Publisher: Bentley Publishers, 1970

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The classic book on the maintenance and driving of vintage cars

Antique & Classic Cars: Their Maintenance and Operation is a companion volume to Wheatley and Morgan's standard work The Restoration of Antique and Classic Cars, in which they took the reader right through a complete overhaul up to the point where his car was ready to start its life all over again. In this book they not only carry the story on from where it was left previously, taking the reader out onto the road with his car, and instructing him how best to maintain it in the impeccable condition it deserves, but they also retrace their steps in places and cover more fully some technical points which could merely be outlined before.

Antique & Classic Cars: Their Maintenance and Operation is equally useful to those who have no wish to restore an antique or classic car but who either possess, or feel that they might like to own, such a car which is already in reasonable condition. For the unintiated driver there is advice on the use of his car in races, rallies and concours. The selection of 42 illustrations from photographs and diagrams has been specially prepared for the book to clarify and supplement the authors' instructions and advice.

Originally published in the United Kingdom in 1964 under the title The Maintenance and Driving of Vintage Cars, this book has since become a standard in the field of antique and vintage automotive restoration.

There is immense pleasure to be obtained from driving a car with a long stroke engine and a high axle ratio, and in mastering the difficulties of a crash gear box. This handbook points the way to the enjoyments of these delights.

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Review:

"'The Restoration of Vintage and Thoroughbred Cars' by the same authors became a classic and this book is a most welcome sequel. The subject matter is obvious from the book's title and the thorough approach to it is ensured by the talented authorship. The book is nicely illustrated, with good photographs, and drawings by R.F. Neale. It is all set down, from replacing a worn shackle-pin to driving a vintage car in a race, from laying up an aged car for storage to finding the right club to suit a one-make interest. Legal aspects of the old-car hobby, maintenance for different purposes - it is all there for the reading, by writers who have been through it all themselves, with very notable results...strongly recommend." --Motor Sport Magazine

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