ive got to pick a book to put on my christmas list, but scouring amazon there seem to be several versions of staniforths book 'competition car suspension'. Theres the 2006 'practical handbook', 1999 'design, construction and tuning', and the 1988 original. Any ideas which i should get? Cheers!

I have the 1999 'design, construction and tuning which is good however I think Fred Puhn's "How to make you car handle" is much better. (ISBN 0-912656-46-8). I guess it depends on whether you are wanting to learn more about suspension and making your car handle better or building a chassis and suspension system from scratch.

its definately the design from scratch side im interested in

i recently got the 2006 book, tis very good.

'competition car suspension' Got the new 2006 book as well -- very good. lots of well up to date stuff (2006 photos etc) practical stuff as well as a good read. What more do you want!

The best choice is " High Speed , Low Cost"
available from Totalkitcar.com (Steve Hole)

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Staniforth for suspension


Forbes Aird for chassis

that second one is £190

Well you wanted something for a Christmas list didn't you?
You didn't say you were cheap as well