SUGGESTIONS for Model A/B restoration books?

[haring]

I'm always looking for good books that I can learn from. I am starting on my '32 truck and don't have any original manuals but want to learn more about the small details of how the original trucks (and cars) were put together -- i.e. body mounts, inner wood structures, clips, wiring, etc, etc.

I am building a hot rod (late 40s - early 50s style), but want to learn more about the original cars so that I can build something authentic whenever possible.

Suggestions?

[manyolcars]

The Ford Model A 'As Henry Built It'

[Bruce Lancaster]

This resto stuff is on my agenda too. I want my deuces (I have a pickup also) to look like they were built from real used car '32's, not collected pieces. You need the Ford V8 as Henry built it (approximate title) by De Angelis, and also the '32-37 Service bulletins. The '32 ones have lots of detail pictures. After these necessary books, the scope expands very rapidly--Ford didn't put out information in nice packages like service manuals, but spread it throughout a vast morass of bulletins, letters, parts books, and so on. Get the '28-48 parts book AND the 1932 parts books. The search is endless. I have a huge pile of early Ford literature, USA, Canadian, British, and French, and continually find new stuff.
The V8 club is another big source of info, but again very diffuse, spread over thirty years of magazine articles covering all sorts of ridiculous cotter pin level detail! Their 1932 restoration detail book update is not yet available. The older one is not available and is not very useful anyway.