Auto body repair
in your backyard

THE “NEXT “TIME you [

- return to your parked car
and find the once im-
macuiate paint job lacerated
by some parking lot baboon,
‘remember the name tary
ing. ‘

Fifteen years ‘in: ‘the: “body

shop repair: business and .10
_years in the sales end of auto
body ‘parts. .with “ Burnaby’s
L.). Peters Wharehouse Ltd.

has given the North Shore:

resident. rare insight into the

Business‘ of auto. body repair. "
King’s: auto: body ~ expertise ©
-coupled with | a realization of |

its. growing: expense, has
given ‘birth ‘‘The

‘Backyard 'Bodyman”’, a
simple :.:illustrated : do-it--
yourself... ‘guide through. ‘the .

the mysteries “and profes-
sional : ‘techniques: of. -auto
body repair.

The 63-page softcover
book was written: and con-
ceived . by -King specifically

yourselfer backyard

mechanic and -the .don’t- .
usually-do-it- yourself...

-mechanical neophyte in
mind, ‘‘Because in the past
two years. prices of auto
body repair have gone a little
wild, and.so, quite naturally,
people want. to-do their own
work. The biggest: problem
with’ that, . -however, is
everybody comes in off the

" street to ask auto body job-
bers and parts clerks how to
do this and how to do that.
Well, usually they don’t
chave the time to explain and
sometimes they just don’t
know.”

‘*The Backyard
Bodyman’”’ therefore plugs
the amateur with the ques-
tions into the. relevant
answers in-language free of
the grease pit jargon and
‘references to tools and
technicalities that only trade
school ‘graduates would
understand.

“Most autobody books on
the market.today are far too
complex and require tools
far too involved and espen-
sive to be practical for
amateurs,” says King.

The most complex tool
required in the work covered
by King’s book is a hammer,
or, in extreme cases, a dent
_ puller. Illustrated by the ink
drawings of Ted Couling,

the book assumes its reader '

to be a body work neander-
thal and. phrases its repair
information accordingly.
The result is a. well-
illustrated informative book
that is both highly readable
and easily understood.

. An investment of $5.95 in
a.copy of “The Backyard

.Bodyman”’, which is now”
-avajlable in most auto supp-

ly and .body shops across
Canada, will result in instant

-and massive savings if work
- iis’ attempted,
‘The: cost of . an ‘average

says King:

paint job on a car is close to

_ $400 if it’s done in.shop, but
. material costs are only $150.

And the work can be done
by” anyone in their own

» -driveway.”?

‘King says ‘he ‘conceived the
book three years “ago,.“but
allowed diversions and. pro-

crastination to delay the ac-.

‘tual writing, ‘* it was only
when I took a trip to Hawaii

seven months . ago” that’? £

decided, hey: it’: Snow oF
never. ne

The initial costs of
$20,000.to print. a first .run
of 15,000 copies were put up
by L.J. Peters. Popularity of

the book has‘inspired pl:
with -both~'the- ‘do-it’ - ee oe

for a second’ run of 7,500
sometime within the next
two months. . Distribution,
also . handled’ -by King's
employer, has recently
cracked the. lucrative
American, market. Depen-
ding on the book’s success
there, King says he plans a
more complex sequel.

‘Basic reason. for the suc-
cess of “ growing do-it-
yourself philosophies and
the subsequent popularity of
books such as ‘‘The
Backyard Bodyman’’ is
basic to the satisfaction of
learning to accomplish
things on your own.

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