How To Rebuild and Modify Your Muscle Car

By: Jason Scott .

Powerful, solid, exciting, and stylish, muscle cars are great fun to restore and drive. But as cool as they already are, you can improve your classic muscle car by adding even more power, style, and handling.

Automotive technology has rocketed boldly forward since the last true muscle cars rolled off the assembly lines in the early 1970s. To extract the full potential of your muscle, car today, you need to restify it. Restification is a combination of restoration and modification; in essence, it's a high-performance restoration. High-performance restorations incorporate modern upgrades and enhancements to improve performance, convenience, styling and even safety.

How to Rebuild and Modify Your Muscle Car shows you how it's done, using easy-to-understand explanations and hands-on, step-up-step photography. From converting old drum brakes to fast-stopping discs, to swapping carbs for electronic fuel injection, this is the ultimate guide to making your muscle car go faster, stop quicker, and handle better, while making it look as good as it did the day it left the factory.

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