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      A big thanks to Woogeroo, Laroke and the other Bolters who helped pull together the initial list of books starting back in October 2004. When asked what books do you use, some of our favorites were:

      If you have something we should add, please let us know.

Books

      Check the "Library" at American Classic Truck Parts -- besides books, they have many manuals, brochures, booklets, all sorted by years. Another great source for on-line manuals is Keith Hardy's Old On-line Chevy Manuals project. As a matter of fact, if you've got a manual to donate to this project, it would be great for everyone. So far, Keith has over 130 manuals with over 13,000 pages (pre-1960) ...all for free! And he's consistently updating it.

How To / Tech Tips / Manuals

• American Classic Truck Parts -- Besides parts and materials, they have lots of literature
• Brushy Creek Collectibles -- "We Carry Thousands of Manuals"
• Butler's A1 Motors -- Online casting number ID
• Casting Number Index Page -- Like it says ... from Hemmings!
• Inliners International -- Tech Tips and casting numbers (And a whole lot more!)
• Jim Carter Antique Truck Parts -- Lots of good articles.
• OKDPM -- How-to Books, Plans and Projects
• Old Carburetors -- Manuals for old carburetors. Awesome Resource Paul!!
• Old On-line Chevy Manuals -- Thanks to Keith Hardy for keeping up with this / Now at 130 manuals with over 13,000 pages
• The Old Car Manual Project -- Car and truck manuals online -- FREE!
• Wolfgang Publications -- A variety of pubs (sheet metal fab, wiring, kustom techniques of the 50's, trucks and tractors)

     Did you know that Google now has "Google Print" ? Just search on Google as you normally would. For example, do a search on a subject such as "books about old trucks." Whenever a book contains content that matches your search terms, Google will show links to that book in your search results. Click on the book title and you'll see the page that contains your search terms, as well as other information about the book. You can also search for other topics within the book. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Since a lot of the world's information isn't yet online, they're helping to get it there. Google Print puts the content of books where you can find it most easily; right in Google search results. Right now (January 2005) they're still testing this program, so you may not see books in your results for every search. But you can expect to see more and more books popping up in your search results in the coming months.

      And our local public library now is on-line with a pretty cool data base for searching for information. You might want to see if that is available in your area, too. I can hunt down a book and reserve it on-line. Then just drop by to pick it up. Quite nifty, I'd say.

Misc.

• Amazon -- Big selection of books, tools, hardware
• American Trucker -- Classifieds for heavy trucks, trailers, parts, etc
• Autotrend Graphics -- Automotive Posters and related graphics
• Car Art On-line -- "Automotive prints available from today's top artists"
• Car Talk -- Click and Clack,The Tappet Brothers, and their radio talk show on NPR.
• Chevrolet Resources -- Chevrolet-related news, books and web resources
• Classic Motorbooks -- Truck Books, Calendars and Videos -- plus tractors, trains, boats, autos, military
• Dictionary of Automotive Terms -- Woogeroo found this nifty site
• European Road Transport E-Magazine -- A bi-monthly e-magazine dedicated to trucking all over Europe.
• EveryTruckJob.com -- A free national classified directory for the trucking and transportation industry.
• GM Photo Store -- 1000's of images from Official GM photo archive
• Garage Logic -- The official Garage Logic web site and explains all this Cylinder Index stuff in the discussion forums
• Hemmings Motor News -- The "bible" of the old car (and truck) hobby
• Hollander Interchange reference manuals -- The last word on interchangeable auto parts for more than 65 years.
• James Tracy - Professional quality paintings of old trucks, can work from photos. Bloomington, Indiana
• John's Pickup Truck Pictures -- A variety of pictures of old trucks from 1910 to 1972
• MSA-1 Identification Books on-line -- Mark Allen's site on identifying engines (books available)
• Motorbooks International -- "World's Largest Selection of Automotive Books, Calendars and Videos."
• National Truck Equipment Assoc. -- Serving the commercial truck equipment industry since 1964
• Old Cars Weekly -- Well, an on-line weekly old car E-magazine
• SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association -- Keeping the automotive aftermarket informed. Good info, plus legislative updates.
• Serious Wheels -- "The Internet source for high-quality classic car images."
• Skinned Knuckles-- A monthly pub written by and for auto and light truck restorers
• Stovebolt .com -- You're already here, silly. The 'Net's oldest and most complete e-zine for old GM trucks!
• Toy Trucker -- Another fun one. We got a few mags at the ATHS 2006 Convention. Too fun!
• Walter Miller Automobile Literature -- "World's largest selection of Original US and Foreign automobile and truck sales brochures, repair manuals, owner's manuals, parts books, and showroom items."

     We decided not to include manuals in the book list since there are soooo many of them. Between American Classic Truck Parts and the Manuals Project ... you ought to find what you need. If not, try Amazon and Motorbooks International and at least The Stovebolt Page can get some credit for the sale (thanks!).