Build Your Own Sports Car for as Little as £250-AND RACE IT!", Ron Champion, 191 pages. ISBN 1 85960 636 9

I remember the first time I layed my eyes on a Locost car. I was fooling around at work and by random chance came across a website dedicated to one of these marvelous little cars. The next 2 weeks were spent in a haze trying to find all the information I could. There were many websites with build diaries (heck, it's were I got the term Build Diary from in the first place.) and of course the book. Everyone raved about how good the book was and how incredibly motivating it was.

Since I was a student, I had to wait a couple weeks to feel comfortable in going out and buying the book, money being not exactly tight, but nonetheless precious... So we eventually walked down to Powell's technical books and purchased it. Afterwards my future wife and I sat in a coffee shop and I tried to explane how cool it was.

This book shows you everything you think you need to know about how to build a car. I was showing it to another friend of mine, and he explained it like this, "So, I'm looking at the book, and I think; how do you weld the chassis together? and I turn the page, and there it is! how to weld the chassis... Then I think, so how do you mount the engine and transmission? And I turn the page, and it tells me how to mount the engine and transmission." The whole book is very well organized and has just enough detail to make you think you can build a car yourself.

A Locost (or something very locost like) is definately on my short list of projects I want to make when I get a chance. Buying this book is the first step on that journey.