You absolutely should do it. You could do a combination technical and
story publication. While it might be challenging to find a publisher for a
limited interest book like this, there is some decent money in it. You
could sell copies on the high end ($100) and self publish it. Even a
relatively small base of buyers (500) would be reasonably rewarding. I've
been writing a business book for about a year, and while I'm not finding
enough time to get it done expeditiously, the process is fairly pleasant
and I've got a lot of use out of pieces of what I've written in my
business.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kas Kastner
To: LOddTR@aol.com; fot@autox.team.net
Sent: 11/25/2002 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Blatant : FOT Updating the Competition Manuals
I'm thinking about it pretty strong. It is a lot easier to say " let's
do
it" than to do the work accurately. There is a ton of information out
there
now on new stuff and products and ways to do things that just weren't
acceptable in the "olden days" (nor legal).
Updating of course has to figure in along with lots of stuff that
happened
after the books were locked into final form. There is also plenty of
happenings that are pretty funny now looking back, things that DIDN'T
work
out. There is also a lot of stories that I think might be pretty
interesting, some funny and some REALLY funny. Bah! I'm thinking
again........ Dangerous.
There a lot of owners out there who are racing these cars right now and
doing a great job. Some have a real handle on getting more performance.
Leaving out this kind of information would be a tough thing to do but
this
requires a lot of personal contact, sweating and torture to those fine
tuners that are making the marquee a terror in lots of places.........I
can't believe I still thinking about this act.
I've done an outline and some updates and some stories, but it is such
a
formidable bit of work and challenge I may bow out and say......FORGET
IT.
It's one thing to have a thirty page book that sells for $2.00 and quite
another to have four or five times that much and sell it for $5,000 a
copy.
I might get complaints. Woe is me.
----- Original Message -----
From: <LOddTR@aol.com>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:48 PM
Subject: Fwd: Blatant : FOT Updating the Competition Manuals
> This is a great ideas particularly for the novices like myself. I
would
> suggest that updates be noted clearly so that those attempting to meet
> "period" standards are able to sort old historic from new.
>
> Leo Oddi
> TR250 #68
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> I realize that there are certain performance secrets that
everyone
> keeps to themselves. However, it is evident from the dialog that
happens
on
> FOT that this group has advanced the knowledge of the preparation of
these
> racecars and perhaps we need to think about updating the competition
manuals.
>
> In the process of updating these manuals, we might further
consider
> referring the sources of parts from FOT and other sources. Maybe some
of
the
> suppliers would think about advertising support to help our retired
FOTers
> prepare the manuals (and support their racing habits).
>
> Cary
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