Features Quick Change Book - In the Beginning.......

Looking at the last sentence of your intro this is my attempt: "Quit yer whinin' "


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Quick Change Rears for Gearheads.

I too like your writing style. Good luck. Let us know when it's ready for mass consumption.

 

Quick Changes in Strange Places
The Quick Change Rear from Salt to Strip​

 

Time for a Quickie - History of the Quick Change Axle



Chris

 

Did you ever decide on a name?

 

Not yet. I am about to post an update on some text & pictures. The name game is still on!

 

"THAT WHININ BITCH" Chris

 

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are!

 

Just playing around

 

That's cool. I have been kicking around ideas for the cover as well. I still haven't come up with a title I REALLY like.

 

QUICKCHANGE: at the SPUR Of The Moment

 

QUICKCHANGE: How to gut your GEAR in REAR

 

Here are the top 100, right now. I like double entendre and would like to be a little risqué without being vulgar. There are a couple that I may use as chapter sub-headings. Some have possibilities, but not quite right.
1. What You Always Wanted To Know About --- But Were Afraid To Ask!
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Quickchange Rear Ends

2. "The Quickchange Rearend, A Historical & Technical Guide For My Fellow Car Nuts "

3. QUICK CHANGE ARTIST

4. Everything You Wanted To Know About Quick Change Rear Ends............

5. "Quick Change Rear Ends - The Whole Tooth"
6. "The Quick Change Odyssey".
7. Bringing Up The Rear...Technical History Of Quick Changes.
8. "Change Me Quick""
9. "From Downtown To The Dry Lakes, And Back
10. Quick, Look At Her Rear End
11. "The Tooth, The Whole Tooth, And Nothing But The Tooth"
12. "The Aweful Tooth About Quickchange Rearends"
13. "Quickchange Rears- The Art Of Making A Faster Dump"
14. A Syllabus On The Care And Feeding Of The Quick Change Rear Axle Assembly
15. The Care And Feeding Of The Quick Change Rear Axle Assembly
16. A How-To, On How To Keep Your Quick Change Axle Alive
17. "Quick Change Rears And Gears"
18. Changing Times - The A-Z Of Quick Change Axles
19. The Hot Rodder's Guide To The Quick Change Rear
20. New Life For The Quick Change. "The Recreation Of A Fine Whine".
21. "Quickie's......All You Needed To Know But Were Afraid To Ask".........
22. Quickchange: A View From The Rear
23. Quickchange: A Rear View Of A Rear End
24. Quickchange: A Review Of A Rear View
25. Quickchange: A Review Of A Rear
26. Quickchange: A Review Of Your Rear
27. Quickchange: The Lead Dog Gives You Something To Look At
28. Quickchange: A View Of The Lead Dog
29. Quickchange: A Real Hot Rod Piece
30. Quickchange: The Second Best Rear End
31. Quickchange: Why Settle For 9 Inches When You Can Get 10
32. Quickchange: Looks, Performance And Sound All In One Package
33. Quickchange: How To Have Your Gear And Eat It Too!
34. Quickchange: Pick A Gear, Any Gear
35. Quickchange: The Ultimate Rear End!
36. Quickchange: How Much Gear You Got?
37. Quickchange: How Much Gear Do You Need?
38. Quickchange: You Can Pick Your Friends And You Can Pick Your Rear But You Can’t Pick Your Friends Rear
39. Quickchange: Does This Axle Make My Rear End Look Too Big?
40. When You Are Undecided On A Gear, Decide On A Quickchange
41. Quickchange: When You Need More Gear In Your Rear
42. Quickchange: Stop Whining!
43. Quickchange: If You Need A Reason To Whine
44. Quickchange: A Refined Whine!
45. Quickchange: Five Minutes To Ecstasy! (And Nobody’s Complaining)
46. Quickchange: The Five Minute Fix!
47. Quickchange: A Real Hot Rod Part And No Electricity Involved
48. Quickchange: For Cars That Can’t Make Up Their Minds
49. Quickchange: The Rear End With A Heart
50. Quickchange: A Rear End Your Wife Won’t Mind You Looking At
51. Quickchange: For All Your Senses
52. Quickchange: Satisfies All Your Senses
53. Quickchange: A Gear For All Seasons
54. Quickchange: Why Settle For Anything Less?
55. Wouldn’t You Really Rather Have A Quickchange?
56. Quickchange: For When Your Engine Overcomes Your Tires
57. Quickchange: Refine The Whine And Stomp Some Grapes
58. Quickchange: Finding Happiness In Your Rear End
59. There’s Something About A Quickchange
60. There’s Something About A Quickie
61. How About A Quickie, Sailor?
62. When You Don’t Have The Time For Foreplay, You Need A Quickie!
63. When You Don’t Have Time To Fool Around, You Need A Quickie!
64. Quickchange: The No Mistake Rear End
65. Quickchange: The Endless Gear Selection Rear
66. Quickchange: The Endless Gear Rear
67. Quickchange: Something To Whine About
68. Quickchange: The Sound Of Refinement
69. Quickchange: The Rear For The Perfectionist
70. Quickchange: When Only The Ultimate Will Do
71. A Quick Look At The Quickchange
72. A Long Look At The Quickchange
73. Quickchange: The Long And Short Of It
74. Quickchange: A Rear End Worth Looking Into
75. Quickchange: Nobody Wants To Look At Your 9”
76. Quickchange: When You’ve Seen Enough 9 Inchers
77. Quickchange: When 9” Isn’t Enough
78. See Dick Run, See Dick’s 9” Jane Sees It, Too. Jane Wants A Quickie! So Do You.
79. Quickchange: A Look Up Your Rear Without A Scope
80. Quickchange: The Colonoscopy Of An Old Rear End
81. Quickchange: From Diapers To Racers
82. Quickchange: 30+ Years Of Looking At Rear Ends
83. More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Quickchange Rear Ends
84. Why Wouldn’t You Want A Quickchange?
85. Quickchange: Memoirs Of A Rear End Lover
86. Quickchange: On The Road To Happiness
87. Quickchange: Rear End Ecstasy
88. Quickchange: Rears Gears Beers Fears
89. Quickchange: Taking The Fear Out Of Gears In Your Rear
90. Quickchange: Choosing Your Rear Gear With No Fear
91. Quickchange: A Look At Rear Ends By A Second Story Guy
92. Quickchange: Looking At Rear Ends With A Jaded Eye
93. Quickchange: 30 Years Of Looking At Other Peoples Rear Ends
94. Quickchange: How I Spent 30+ Years
95. Quickchange: A Thorough Investigation Of Rears And Gears
96. Quickchange: Taking The Whine Out
97. Quickchange: An Exposé Of Beautiful Rear Ends
98. Quickchange: Rearz, Gearz And Fearz
99. Quickchange: At the SPUR Of The Moment
100. Quickchange: How to put your REAR in GEAR

 

Just some (hopefully) constructive criticism on my end... While I understand that you want something a bit risqué and with double entendre, you also have to make sure that your book is 'findable' by someone who wants to pick it up.

Book titles 8, 9, 10, 11, 21, 60, 61, 62, 63, 78, I wouldn't even know that they relate to the quickchange rear end.

There's a few others in there that, while humorous, I probably wouldn't pick up off the shelf with serious intent to read.

Your title should also convey that the contents of the book will be a creditable source of information, tips and tech.

Hope that helps some.

 

Just exactly the type of feedback I was hoping for.

Your comments are well thought out and I agree. The Title definitely needs 'Quickchange' in it. I'm not fond of calling them Quickies, but the double entendre and risqué are certainly satisfied with that reference. I'm sure that the artwork will be just as important to convey the message of the book contents.

Thanx,

Bruce

 

Like Speedy said, paraphrasing, simple,, quickchange in the title for searching (remember the non-HAMBers) and like billboards, no more than 13 word in the art.

 

I vote for this one.

 

I like the writing style too. I have done some draft document proofreading over the years, and if you need someone to lay an extra set of eyes on what you write, let me know. Freebie for a HAMB'er. Can't promise perfection, but will try to catch what I can. For instance, this jumped right off the page at me:

Why would anyone write a book about Quick Change Axles? Have you seen one before? I haven’t either. Well then, does this mean that a book about QCs isn’t necessary? Maybe not, but when I first got started building Quick Changes 30+ years ago, the lack of information made it difficult.

Ya can't have worked on QC's for 30 years and never seen one, unless you're a hell of a good blind mechanic.

 

Have you found much information on the Halibrand two-speed QC? It might even have been called a transaxle when originally used in the 1964-1965 Halibrand Shrike Indy cars. There's a thread here http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=398845&highlight=halibrand+worth. My post, with photos of the bare housing I have, is on the first page. I see the nose on the O.P.'s (probably a Shrike transaxle) and mine are different. Scott Gullen shows his at the end of the thread, and the nose on his has yet another flange. I've found very little information on the Web.

 

FNG here....how about something simple like:

"Changing Gears"
A layman's Guide to Quick Change Readends


With a an x-ray view of a quick change rearend on the cover.


Ken

 

Quickchange: ...... A fine Whine.


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Any updates? I'll add myself to the group that would like to have a nice informative book on quick change axles.

 

Look here for an update.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=772084&highlight=quick+change

My plan is to show some more of this on this thread but I got side tracked with the other one.

Next installment probably will be on differentials.

 

Sorry, I think this is the right link.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=863656&highlight=quick+change

 

TIME FOR A CHANGE
From Culver City To (insert name of obscure city of a backyard QC builder)

 

I think I would just keep the title simple just like the example of the "how to hot rod Chevy small blocks" no mistaking what it's about..

 

Booty Fetish!

 

Sounds like a book I need to add to my list of things to get.....

 

We were looking for a name for a kayak cart, and i offered the guys a hundred bucks for the best one...they came back with tons of suggestions, like "roll your own" etc. all I can say is the best one will jump right out at you...we chose Waterwheel. So far 18 and 19 on your list are my favorites.