Fournier R. Metal Fabricator's Handbook: Race and Custom Car

HPBooks, Inc., 1982. — 176 p. — ISBN: 0895861712.Winner of the prestigious Moto Award for "Best Technical How-to Book" in 1984, the Metal Fabricator's Handbook applies master metal craftsman Ron Fournier's unique metal fabricating skills-developed during years of building Indy cars, drag racers, stockers, custom show cars, and sports GT race cars. Covers MIG, TIG, arc- and gas-welding, fuel and oil tanks, exhaust headers, and much more.A good usable book for the beginner as well as the more experienced amateur. The author includes a lot of helpful information for the beginner. He starts with simple and complete description of all kinds of tools that are used in fabricating metal. He starts with hand tools, moves to power hand tools, and then ends with large equipment. In the next chapter the author describes the types of metals needed to fabricate reliable auto parts. Afterwards, there is a chapter for each, gas welding and electric welding. The following two chapters are about basic metal forming and hammer forming. Both of those chapters are good and give a basic understanding of how metal is shaped.
There are five more chapters about sheet metal add ons, roll bars, tanks, exhaust headers, and sheet metal interior.
In conclusion, the book is helpful for the beginner; however there is a lack of information about simple detailed projects and practices.