Description
Author: William Neubecker, Softbound, 127 Pages, ISBN: 9780911160017, First Edition, 1969 - *Second-Hand book in excellent condition*
Antique Auto Body METAL WORK for the Restorer delineates the state of the sheet metal layout and fabrication art in 1912—an invaluable
guide to authentic design and construction in present-day restoration.
For one intent upon proper reproduction of missing or erosioncancered metal body panels, from a toe board to a complete body—with perhaps no more than pictures of the original to illuminate the way—this book presents unparalleled details for design and construction of the metal work with the ring of complete authenticity.
Steel and aluminum skinning practice (over wood framed superstruc ture) is treated from the days when metal began to replace wood paneling.
150 illustrations detail the methods and sheet metal patterns basic in the development and fabrication of every body panel from layout drawings.
All panels, major and minor, for 16 basic bodies from speedster to torpedo touring, are covered with complete scale demonstration patterns for hoods, cowls, heel panels, doors, bucket seats, individual two-passenger seats, two-passenger double seats, dust pans, gas tanks, front fenders, rear fenders, lip rims, rear panels and guards. Optional treatments are presented in stunning variety. Among hood types, for example, the French-type with radiator at firewall, as well as the Stanley coffin-nose, are detailed in full.
Today's restorer may also rediscover the lost hand trades of Wood Work, Leather Work and Top Work, as applied in early automobile body building, through others in this Vintage Craft Series.
Each volume, written and illustrated in graphic detail by recognized contemporary authorities of that golden era before the Wars, revives one of the motor body hand crafts in full, comprehensive dimension—out of the limbo where it was buried under the avalanche of automatic machines that swept body building practice generally after World War I.
