[elboru]

The idea is not to build a car just after you are out of the bunker. But it seems like this book would be helpful for a ton of useful things:

> thorough text covering not just cars, but their constituent parts--and their constituent parts' constituent parts--all the way down to the materials. It has wonderful tables of data on the properties of various materials (from advanced plastics and alloys to leather, paper, and common fluids) accompanied by clear and precise mechanical diagrams

[occz]

The materials-part could probably be useful, but still, the utility of cars in a world where neither their infrastructure could be maintained nor their fuel produced is highly questionable. Bicycles are far less vulnerable, in my opinion.

[kortilla]

You’re really getting hung up on the “car” part of it and not the “constituent parts”. This book would have everything required to build a bicycle.

[yazantapuz]

Forget the car. The mechanical knowledge is the valuable thing.