Description
Author: Joe Pettitt, Softbound, 126 Pages, CT-SA58, ISBN: 9781884089381, First Edition, 1999
Joe Pettitt is a freelance high-performance automotive journalist, photographer, and car-fi guy. He's written hundreds of articles for the performance press including Hot Rod, Sport Compact Car, Drag Racer, Car Craft, Circle Track, and Motor Trend. His adventures as a high-performance journalist include piloting IROC cars around the famous ovals of Daytona and Talladega and strapping into the world's fastest open road race record holder vehicle as a journalist/passenger. This mind-warping experience offered 27 minutes of sheer terror at over 220 mph while making the 90-mile Silver State Challenge run from Ely to Lund, Nev., with an average speed of over 194 mph. As a car audio journalist he wrote for Autotronics magazine, where he indulged his passion for great cars and great music.
An avid do-it-yourselfer, Pettitt modified and tuned numerous sports cars, hot rods, and street machines, installing sound systems in all of them. His favorite was a '59 XK 150 Jag. "I didn't have the most expensive gear in that car," said Pettitt, "but I installed it right and it made wonderful music as it moved swiftly through the turns and twist of the canyons of Southern California. "Every time you build a car," says Pettitt, "you learn something new. You learn how to do it a little smarter and a little easier; you learn how to find the right people to answer your questions. Finding good information isn't easy; but once you have it, it makes your high-performance projects run much smoother."
That's why SA Design had Pettitt write this book—to help you cut through all the marketing hype and get to the truth of the subject. He knows how to find the best experts in the field and get the real high-performance story.
Pettitt currently lives in his own virtual reality in Southern California with wife Patricia, stepdaughter, Vanessa, and their baby daughter, Jordan. In addition to this volume, Pettitt has written SA Design's High Performance Honda Builder's Handbook Vol. 1, How To Install Nitrous Oxide Injection, and How to Install High-Performance Car Stereos.
