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Lucille's Car Care: Everything You Need to Know from Under the Hood-By America's Most Trusted Mechanic | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lucille Treganowan, Gina Catanzarite
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1467966
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 257
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.3 x 1
ISBN: 0786862017
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.28722
EAN: 9780786862016
ASIN: 0786862017
Publication Date: June 1996
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The little old lady who knows all about fixing cars, Treganowan is the Martha Stewart of auto repair. She went into the auto-shop business in the sixties, became a popular success and went on to develop a cable TV show on car mechanics for those who are not mechanically-minded. (Co-author Catanzarite is the producer of the TV show.) Now she has a huge audience for her non-technical, no-fuss advice on how to keep your car on the road. She resists the obvious temptation to indulge in down-home folksiness and manages to convey in clear simple language the basics of do-it-yourself auto maintenance and repair.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Outstanding May 13, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought my first car and this book at the same time. I have had many car problems in the past few years and this book was the only thing that made conversations with a mechanic seem almost painless. Lucille's book helps to identify smells, fluids, sound and much more. Without this book I'd never know how or when to change fluids, what smells or sounds to be concerned with. What is safe and what is not...even if a job will be very expensive! A great book, maybe the most well used book I've ever bought.
 A great introduction February 11, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was a great introduction for someone who knows very little about cars. She explains what the major systems of the car are (like the drive train, suspension, etc) and identifies key components (like the radiator and catalitic converter) and explains what they do in simple terms. My only complaint is that as someone who just bought a classic car and wants to really learn to be a weekend mechanic I wanted to know more about certain things and was frustrated by not being able to "double-click" to get more information about something she had described too generally. She really does explain things in an easy-to-understand and entertaining way and gives a great maintenance plan for the average car owner who wants to save money by doing it themselves or just know what mechanics are talking about so they don't get taken for a ride.Lucille herself is quite inspiring - I'd like to know her! Stop by greasergrrls dot com if you like and say hi :)
A great reference for mechanically challenged drivers. June 5, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a valuable reference for all drivers who would like to understand how their cars work and how to talk to and understand a mechanic. It is well written and organized. I learned what many of those squeaks, clunks & chirps mean & how to do my own maintenance. I'm giving Lucille's to my neice for her 16th birthday.
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