Building the Mule Book

[Samckitt]

Anything new on this book?

[tim@sdpc]

We are as anxious as you guys are to get the book in. The book has not shown up just yet. We will keep you guys up on it as soon as we get the information. I am waiting for my own copy.

[Zanie]

still no book?

[Bowtie racing]

We are as anxious as you guys are to get the book in. The book has not shown up just yet. We will keep you guys up on it as soon as we get the information. I am waiting for my own copy.

Tim, since its supposed to be distributed by you guys , could you ask around and let us know why it can take this long ? I am sure they did not wrote it in HotRod for nothing ??

[TechAFXWill]

Hello all. This is Will Handzel with an update on the 'Building the Mule' book.

Stielow and I are behind getting the book completed, but we have the majority of it written and laid out in its final form at this time.
We are doing editing of the formatted material and preparing to go to press.

Thanks to all for showing interest and being patient--just as an FYI, we let a few enthusiasts read the 100+ pages or so we had put together about a month or so ago and all found it enjoyable and informative...so we think you'll enjoy it when we get it out!

We will let you know when we have them shipped to SDPC...

[Rod]

Hello all. This is Will Handzel with an update on the 'Building the Mule' book.

Stielow and I are behind getting the book completed, but we have the majority of it written and laid out in its final form at this time.
We are doing editing of the formatted material and preparing to go to press.

Thanks to all for showing interest and being patient--just as an FYI, we let a few enthusiasts read the 100+ pages or so we had put together about a month or so ago and all found it enjoyable and informative...so we think you'll enjoy it when we get it out!

We will let you know when we have them shipped to SDPC...

A section of the Stielow bible.....its like looking at the dead sea scrolls

[Bowtie racing]

Thanks to all for showing interest and being patient--just as an FYI, we let a few enthusiasts read the 100+ pages or so we had put together about a month or so ago and all found it enjoyable and informative...so we think you'll enjoy it when we get it out!

We will let you know when we have them shipped to SDPC...

Thank you for the update.. I more affraid at my car will be done before this gets out ;)

[Kenova]

Thank you for the update.. I more affraid at my car will be done before this gets out ;)

Well, you know what that means. You will have to build another one.

Ken

[Bowtie racing]

Anything?

[syborg tt]

I know I've said this before but this is the car that convinced me to build my truck.

[Bowtie racing]

I know I've said this before but this is the car that convinced me to build my truck.

And exactly the fire starter for my project! I would not have even thought of 1gen camaro for my next project. Building the mule series and right after that twister(and DSE) was real eye opener for me.

[pro-touring.no]

Anything new about the book?

[Charley Lillard]

Soon...really.

[zbugger]

Soon...really.

You sound so believable....

[Stielow]

Soon...really.

I would say really soon.

I will post a picture of me holding one of the first copies of the book as soon as I get them. I think you guys will like it. It has over 1000 color photos some that have never been seen before. It is over 200 pages and it covers the Mule build up, some of my old cars and a little on the Red Devil. I have read it over 100 times and it very cool with a lot of tech. It has a lot of stuff that I forgot I did. I think when people ask “what is Pro-Tour” people car refer to this book.

Sorry for the delay but this was a side project for Will Handzel and I. We started on it 3 years ago thinking we would just reprint the PHR articles. After looking at all the photos I had we rewrote all of it. Even though I started building the Mule 10 years ago the car still looks great and the build is still very relevant with great tech.

Unless the printer drops the ball we should have the volume of books by mid-March. We were hoping to have them at the Detroit Autoramma next week but some reworks delayed that.

If you are in Detroit for the Autoramma stop by I’ll have the Red Devil on display and a teaser optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational video clip running. I might even have one of the very first copies of the book!

Hold off calling Scoggin Dickey to order any books. I’ll post when we have shipped them books. They are already mad at me for saying in Hot Rod that the book will be out last Christmas and we missed that date by a lot. I know how to build a car, but doing a book is not as easy as it looks….

Thanks for being patient.

Mark

[David Sloan]

Thanks Mark
Looking forward to reading this!

[GEARHEADMUCK]

COOL! Great news!

[Stielow]

We'll have books at Autoramma in booth number 522 for $25.00 a book for sale this weekend. We also shipped 150 books overnited to Scoggin Dickey. You can order one from them for $26.95. 800-456-0211 www.sdparts.com There is also also a bunch of books shipped by truck SPDC, so if you miss the first patch more will be there next week.





I'll try to hang around Thomson Automotive booth most of the weekend. If you stop by and I'm not there I'll tell someone when I will be back.

The book turned out very good. The book is 210 pages with 1184 images with over 1100 color photos. It has all the tech stories from the Mule build up in Popular Hot Roding articles. It also has many images never seen before like converting the car to twin turbos. We also added a chapter on the Red Devil to keep it current.

It has been a long time coming. I hope you guys like it.

If you stop by the booth we also have a short optima Ultimate Street Car Intitational teaser video they sent me.

Stielow

[chaz75]

way cool.

[Jesse@SDPC]

I have them!!!!!!!!!!