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Contents: Special Features – Christmas Gifts To Make In Your Shop (Full plans and instructions to turn out delights that look straight from the North Pole); PM Drives New Datsun Z (The evolutionary 280-XZ might be too comfy for out-and-out sportsters); The Jets Of The ’80s (Fuel pinch has reined in jet-airliner designers, but new engines, airfoils give bizjets a leg up on the big boys); How To Replace A Broken Tool Handle (Wooden grips often break with years of use left. Here’s how to mend them to be good as new); Add A “Concert Hall” To Your Home Stereo System (Time-delay circuitry and extra speakers can product grand-scale accustic effects anywhere); Classic Car Replicas (Reproducing yesterday’s great cars for buyers with bad case of Gatsby-itis is now big business) Automobiles And Bikes – PM Garage; Cult Cars Continued; Car Clinic; Detroit Listening Post; Build PM‘s Auto Cable Tester; PM Owners Report: Chevrolet Chevette; Imports And Motorsports; Driving The ’79 VW Rabbit; How Specialized Automakers Are Cloning The Classics; Driving The New Datsun Z Car; Saturday Mechanic: Servicing The ’79 General Motors Cars Home And Yard – Put A Damper On Chimney Heat Loss; How To Wrap And Mail Your Christmas Gifts; Appliance Clinic; Homeowners Clinic; How To Choose And Care For Kitchen Knives; Four Great Projects From PM‘s Year-Round Vacation Home; How To Work With Plastic Piping; Squirrels In The Attic? Here’s How To Get Rid Of Them Photography – Konica’s New FS-1 SLR; How To Choose Your Second Lens; Photo Hints; What A Rapid-Fire Camera Can Do For You Science And Engineering – Science Worldwide; Tapping The World’s Deepest, Wettest Mine Shop And Crafts – Shop-Made Lathe Steady Rest; PM Workbench; Hints From Readers; PM Plan Of The Month: Sporty Bobsled For Young Downhill Racers; PM‘s Cornucopia Of Hard-To-Find Hardware; 17 Great Ways To Say Merry Christmas; Build Our Challenging Table Soccer Game; Two Great Ideas For Your Workshop; How To Replace A Broken Tool Handle; Single-Runner Sled You Can Build In A Jiffy; Workshop Minicourse: Router Basics Electronics, Radio And TV – Time-Delay Stereo: Now Waiting Pays off In Concert-Hall Sound; Now You’ll Be Able To Use A Home Computer Boating And Outdoors – All Outdoors; New For Next Year’s Fishing; Now Sharpshooters Shoot BBs; New Sport Machines For Snow Aviation – The Jets Of The Eighties Take Off Every Month – Letters; It’s New Now; PM Briefs
Issue: November 1978
Condition: Very Good