Thanks for the review.... sounds like a good read!
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sally or Dick Taylor" <tr6taylor@webtv.net>
To: "Mike" <74@tr6world.com>
Cc: <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 3:18 AM
Subject: Re: TR6 restoration book
> To the List---Mike Brinker and I have been discussing this
"Restoration"
> book for a week or more. His message here a few days ago gave you all
a
> good outline on what Roger Williams covered in his 192 page manual.
Mike
> also asked me to review this book before making it available for
> purchase at:
> websixpack@6-pack.org
>
> If you choose to buy this book it would be great if you would do so
from
> the Club, at the website above.
>
> It would be too lengthy to review this book, or manual, on a
> chapter-by-chapter basis. At least on this forum. I can tell you that
> this manual is very readable, yet captures the wealth of experience of
> this hands-on writer.
>
> He offers new solutions to many of the nagging, reoccurring problems
we
> have had to deal with, and in a refreshing manner. Some of his ideas
> I've never seen in print before.
>
> Almost one fourth of the manual deals with body-off restoration for
the
> six cylinder TR roadster. While the main model used for a lot of his
> writing and many illustrations was the early TR6, it isn't difficult
to
> put you particular car year in its place.
>
> This isn't primarily a manual for taking apart a Triumph with no other
> source of reference, but rather more of a problem solving kind to
> compliment something like the Bentley manual. Nor is it one that
offers
> demon tweaks for mega HP gains, tho the author does appreciate the
> difference between engines built for the mother country vs. those
> shipped to the US. Many pages are used to cover P.I. and higher
> compressioned heads.
>
> In my opinion the manual is prepared well, obviously proof-read, and
> only the most discerning eye will be able to spot some niggling slips.
> Rare indeed, for a motor book. I'm glad to have a copy.
>
> Dick Taylor
> CF11143
> L.A., Ca.
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