richard welty <welty@lewis.crd.ge.com> (02/27/90)
From: garnett@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Garnett) On 'Autobook' repair manuals: Does anyone know of a bookseller/autoplace in this country that sells/mailorders repair books from the British 'Autobook' series ? ? I don't think that these are availble new anymore. (haven't seen any) I've managed to pick some up at used book stores & sales. They aren't quite as good as Bentley's, (which tent to be factory reprints) but are written independantly, more like Haynes, with some different content than either. i have the Autobook manuals on early Saab 99s and early 105 series Alfa Romeos; i'm generally not impressed with their quality relative to Haynes manuals. they're still in print in England, under the `Motorbook' label; i just got a copy of their current 105/115 series book for Alfa Romeos, and it still has the same mistakes that it had in its `Autobook' incarnation. the engine section of their Saab 99 book is awful; when they wrote it they still hadn't seen the 2.0 liter B engine yet, and they simply assumed that it was a straight forward enlargement of the Triumph-Standard 4 instead of the major redesign that it was. as regards `cover bugs' in Haynes manuals; the discussion inspired me to look at the cover of my Saab 99 book, and sure enough, there are a few gaffes in the drawing. ack, richard
richard welty <welty@lewis.crd.ge.com> (02/28/90)
From: richard welty <welty@lewis> they're still in print in England, under the `Motorbook' label; i just got a copy of their current 105/115 series book for Alfa Romeos, i may be wrong here; i looked more closely at my `motorbook' copy last night, and it appears to be a one-off reprint done in conjunction with the GB Alfa Club, and not a repackaging as part of a series. oh well. richard