Rather than ebay, maybe sell on the local instantiation of craigslist, or give
them away via freecycle?
A Bricklin, eh?
Next door neighbor when I was a kid had a Rambler, same vintage as yours. Neat
car!
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Tom Coradeschi
tjcora@icloud.com
> On 04 Nov 2022, at 7:02 PM, John T. Blair <jblair1948@cox.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hey Gang,
>
> I've had to clean out my old little bedroom/computer room/ham shack to
> pull up the carpeting and put down new hard wood floor and baseboard
> molding. In doing this I got ride of 2 desks, one was a very small operating
> desk for the ham radio, and the other was a work bench for working on
> electronic projects. That ment I needed a new operating desk. I built one
> out of a solid core interior door, some metal "X" frame legs, and the put a
> 2" x 12" x 80" shelf on the desk supported by 6 - 12" pipe legs.
>
> In this room I also had 2 5' tall book cases and 2 smaller ones. I'm
> probably going to have to get rid of at least one of the tall ones and one of
> the short ones.
>
> So here's the tie to "shop talk". I have all kids of old car manuals, for
> cars I
> no longer own, like my 67 Spitfire shop manual, my '65 Volvo P1800, an old
> Glenn's Foreigh Car Repair manual, then many more. So what should I do
> with them? They would be relatively expensive to ship if I sold them on
> eBay. I don't think my kids will want them. I am keeping the various
> manuals and part catalogues I have the cover my Morgan and Bricklin as I
> still own both cars.
>
> I hate to just pitch them out. What would you do with them if they were your
> shop manuals and catalogues?
>
> Also, I'm no spring chicken and ain't getting any younger. :)
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair1948@cox.net
> Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
>
> 48 TR1800 48 #4 Midget 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V (B1106)
> 75 Bricklin SV1 (#0887) 77 Spitfire 71 Saab Sonett III
> 65 Rambler Classic
>
> Morgan: http://autox.team.net/morgan/
> Bricklin: http://www.bricklin.org
>
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