[Shop-talk] Old car manuals

[Jeff Scarbrough]

They should ship fairly inexpensively as Media Mail (since they contain no
advertising) so you might look into that.

As a Spitfire enthusiast (I've owned four or five square tails) I might
have an interest in that part of your collection.

-- Jeff

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 19:12 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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