[Shop-talk] Old car manuals

[Thomas Coradeschi]

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 at icloud.com


> On 04 Nov 2022, at 7:02 PM, John T. Blair <jblair1948 at 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 at 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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