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Books For Purchase Written by R. W. "Kas" Kastner
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Kas Kastner's Triumphs
Race Cars, Street Cars and Special Cars
$47.50 USD (Free shipping in the U.S.A.)
This book is a continuation of the series Kas has written on Triumph cars.
Kas is accepting pre-orders now, and expects to ship by approximately November 25, 2010.
This is a full size
8.5" X 11" book with 252 pages and over 500 photos. It covers stories on
Triumph cars from Australia with a 290 bhp TR-2, and in Belgium, a lap in
a TR-6 on the SPA F-1 track, to Canada where a TR-3 body is fit
to a TR-6 chassis. There are lots of other fix-it stuff, articles and stories.
A big section is devoted to the building of a GT-6 racer from scratch. Choosing
the best of 3 junkers, the racer is built up over the period of the past twenty
months and covered in detail, from suspension, drive line, body additions and
fixing, making lexan windows, to the engine dyno run. Detail views of the engine
building and preparation which produced 204 bhp at 8000 rpm may help you build any
engine. Fourteen chapters deal with the construction in photos and text. Roll
cage building , painting, chassis work, engine building all done right in the
home garage of Chuck Gee, 2007 winner of the Kastner Cup in his top notch 1500
Spitfire.
So you can enjoy more of the detail of the photos, most in color, a DVD comes with
each book. There are many photos on this DVD that there was not enough room to put
in the book. Put the DVD in your computer, view and enlarge!
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Kas Kastner's Racing, Winning and Other Myths in
Triumph Cars TR-3, TR-4, TR-250, TR-6, GT-6 &
Spitfire $34.50 USD (Free shipping in the U.S.A.)
Views and recommendations for vintage Triumph racing, unique rear shock absorbers fitting
for the TR-4's, tuning the Lucas fuel injection system, stories of the times of the USA
Competition Department and other interviews and racing stories. Learn how to make your
own needle machine with simple parts and tools. This book is a continuation of the series
Kas has written on Triumph cars.
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Kas Kastner's Spitfire, GT-6, TR-3, TR-4, TR-250,
TR-6 Triumph Preparation Handbook $34.50 USD (Free shipping in the U.S.A.)
This book is a compilation of technical material from the series of
Competition Preparation manuals that Kas wrote in the sixties along
with later information and happenings about the Competition Department and the cars he raced.
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Kas Kastner's Historical & Technical Guide for Triumph Cars TR-3, 4, TR-250,
TR-6, Spitfire & GT-6 $34.50 USD (Free shipping in the U.S.A.)
Visits and interviews with important speed parts manufacturers, personal
interviews with TR owners around the world, and personal happenings of Kas. With
more technical ideas and information, special parts and fixes, this book will be
of interest to all Triumph owners.
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