The Cars of the Fast and the Furious: The Making of the Hottest Cars on Screen | 
 enlarge | Author: Eddie Paul
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 546580
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0760315515
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.222
EAN: 9780760315514
ASIN: 0760315515
Publication Date: July 7, 2006
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Condition: Some slight wear on book from reading, binding and pages are in very good shape.
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Product Description
A fascinating look inside the preparation of the cars and the making of the movie scenes featured in the 2001 box office hit The Fast and the Furious and in the 2003 summer release sequel The Fast and the Furious 2. Officially authorized by Universal Studios, this book draws on the experience of Eddie Paul in acquiring, constructing and modifying the cars for both movies. This book, with 300 color illustrations, reveals how the automotive stunts were choreographed, performed and filmed. This is a true insider's guide to the exciting world of fast cars, thrilling stunts, and motion-picture production.
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 Awesome book!!! November 2, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is full of color pictures, and great stories about thow they got the cars for this great movie! I own a Honda S2000 and I used the book in my car on the day of the car show. I highly recommend this book, you won't be disappointed!
INTERESTING LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES April 11, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love tuner cars and I'm always fascinated by how movies are made. This book puts the two together with a lot of good photos.
 Cars for enthusiats and realists October 17, 2005
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Amusingly, Another reviewer "Eggplant" appears not to have read the book, and is using the space here for mis-guided American flag waving exercise.
I have ordered the book because of his comments. Why? Because he lambasts it, based on the alleged superiority of the American V8. Eggplant is so wrong about engines that I am confident he'll be wrong about the book too. Having owned both American powered and Japanese powered machines, obviously Eggplant hasn't the slightest clue about performance or reliablity. Every Japanese machine I have owned (many) has outclassed every American machine I have owned (I no longer buy them), across the board. Power, handling, reliablilty, serviceability etc.
The reason these cars are riding your tail Eggplant, is that you can't or wont get out of the way. "Classic Muscle"? ROFL. Like on the dual horses of your chariot? Push rods, chortle. Any time he wants to take on my twin-turbo supra, (plain white) on the straight, round a hairpin, in an economy or a reliability run, I'll be waiting for him at the finish to sign my copy of this book.
Carburators (snigger).
Automatic gearboxes (guaffaw).
Points (cough, grin laugh).
Oh stop- my sides are hurting...
69 Charger that ran for 90 seconds before suffering a mechanical failure. A _mechanical_ failure! Haw haw haw. I used to have those, LoL. Heee heee heee snigger.
Roll on Fedex, bring me some real car action!
 Yecchhh.... June 25, 2005
1 out of 15 found this review helpful
I already wrote a review for the movie itself (horrid) a couple of years ago (it's back there somewhere) going into detail about why "da fzzt nd fa furrriyus", on its own merit, falls flat. But there's something I failed to mention in that review which I will go into now.
One word: RICE.
How many times have you been driving along, minding your own business, when some stupid [white suburban "thug"] pulls up behind you in this tacky eyesore of a car (almost always an import), with a big, loud "f*rt can", six-foot-high wing, tons of stickers, many contrasting colors, et cetera, riding your tail? Well, guess what, folks, this, here, is the "movie" that started this trend. Thanks to Vin and company, we have "rice rockets".
Now, I have nothing against imports. However, people, face facts: I4's and small V6's can never hold a candle to an American-built high-performance V8. I happen to be the proud owner of a '95 Mustang GT (daily driver) and a '63 Chevy Impala SS (cruiser), and all I can say is these dumb [white suburban
thugs"] who own those monstrosity "rice rockets" give me and fellow car enthusiasts a bad name. You want a REAL car chase scene? Watch "Bullitt". Even "Gone In 60 Seconds" (the Nic Cage version) is halfway decent, because it actually has a plot and some classic muscle. But this... ugh.
If anything, the one star that Amazon forces me to give this waste of paper could be for that sweet, sweet '69 Charger at the end, though. That's right, kiddies. THAT'S a car.
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