Vintage‎ Mechanix Illustrated Magazine 55 MPG Town Car DIY Home Auto April 1975

Brand/Publication: Mechanix Illustrated.  Issue: April 1975, Volume 71, Number 563, staple-bound softcover how-to magazine with original 60¢ cover price.  Front cover features a yellow 55-mile-per-gallon town car you can build for only $1,400 and a headline on setting your car for the most miles per gallon.  Special home-improvement section focuses on saving money with do-it-yourself projects such as adding a room or bathroom, finishing a basement, and finishing an attic.  Automobile coverage includes a town car you can build for $1,400, a hot line report on the used car scene, tests of the Mini Audi and a V6 Pinto, car-care tips for getting the most MPG, Dutch co-op electrics, and service tips from Detroit.  Additional departments feature McCahill reports on the Plymouth Fury and boats, recreation and outdoor topics including park trailers and shooting, and boats and boating articles on your first sailboat, making your own anchor, and new products for boatmen.  Electronics, science and technology, and woodworking sections cover big-ship electronics in the small boat, world of science hot line reports, a little critter with a big bite, a deadly mystery in the water, and basic butcher blocks.   Publisher: Fawcett Publications, Inc., Mechanix Illustrated combined with Electronics Illustrated; printed in the United States; language: English; genre spans automobiles, science and technology, home and garden, boats and sails, and hobbies and crafts.