Corvette Performance Projects 1968-1982 (Motorbooks Workshop) Review

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(More customer reviews)Some automotive technical books are devoted to complex, expensive procedures modifications that sometimes require intermediate or advanced mechanical skills. It's refreshing to run across a book on basics and Corvette Performance Products 1968-1982 is exactly that.
This book covers a variety of service and maintenance tasks a DIY would perform on a 68-82 Corvette (aka "C3" or "Shark") from the very basic, such as how to jack and support your car and changing your oil and filter to more intermediate tasks such as simple body repairs, brake service and electrical troubleshooting.
Each project, and there are 31 of them, is covered by a separate chapter which explains the task in detail and illustrates it with color photos. This "modular" approach means you can either read the book cover-to-cover or use it in the shop as a supplemental service manual, looking-up information on a specific task and just reading that part.
Author, Tom Benford's easy-to-read style and his extensive, hands-on experience working on his own C3 project car make this book an excellent resource for the DIY service technician who is just starting out working on his or her own Corvette.
About the only weakness of this book is the use of the word "Performance" in its title. In 31 DIY projects suggested in this book only two have anything to do with increasing a Corvette's performance. What the publisher needs to do is simply take the word "Performance" out of the title, but leave the rest of this useful book alone.
If you're an automotive DIY and you're just getting into the Corvette hobby with a C3, next to a factory service manual, Corvette Performance Products 1968-1982 should be the most important reference in your garage. It's emphasis on basics is well worth the cover price.

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Of the five generations of Corvettes, the C3 or "shark" models are among the most popular with do-it-yourselfers. Produced from 1968 all the way up to 1982, most C3 Corvettes haven't reached the collector status (and inflated prices) of earlier models. Far from being the black sheep of the Corvette family though, these attractive cars are plentiful (500,000+ were built) and affordable enough that they can be purchased, maintained, and enjoyed by a large spectrum of car lovers. The vast majority are powered by the popular 350ci small block-perhaps the most modified and successful performance engine ever.

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