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1. Need repair manual recommendation (score: 1)
Author: "Gary McEachern" <glmce@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:31:46 EDT
I don't currently own a repair manual for my '75 Spitfire. What are the better options out there for manuals? I want to get one with good detail and excellent electrical and mechanical diagrams. Doe
/html/spitfires/1999-08/msg00558.html (7,728 bytes)

2. Re: Need repair manual recommendation (score: 1)
Author: "Victor B. Michael" <vmichael@enteract.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:52:58 -0500
Most people use the Haynes owners and repair manual. There is currently one on eBay. High bid is $16 but amazon sells it for $14 new. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1850100225/o/qid=9344262
/html/spitfires/1999-08/msg00560.html (8,646 bytes)

3. RE: Need repair manual recommendation (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Miller" <millerb@netusa1.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:17:59 -0500
Keep your eyes open for two Bentley manuals. Buy them and send me one of them. :) Bill 78 Spit Hello I don't currently own a repair manual for my '75 Spitfire. What are the better options out there
/html/spitfires/1999-08/msg00562.html (8,539 bytes)

4. RE: Need repair manual recommendation (score: 1)
Author: "James Gambony" <BritBits@tiu.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:33:36 -0500
There are two repair manuals typically available... the Haynes and the "Robert Bentley (or just "Bentley)" series. Haynes is "based off a complete tear down and rebuild"... the problem is that the o
/html/spitfires/1999-08/msg00564.html (11,625 bytes)

5. Re: Need repair manual recommendation (score: 1)
Author: Laura.G@141.com (Laura Gharazeddine)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:40:35 -0700
No Gary, Make that three, please. ;-) and
/html/spitfires/1999-08/msg00565.html (9,350 bytes)

6. Re: Need repair manual recommendation (score: 1)
Author: "Keith R. Stewart" <kstewart@wwdc.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 07:12:13 -0400
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1850100225/o/qid=934426287/sr=8-1/00 2-9170290-0475633) Vic I think it is the other way around. The Bentley is actually a reprint of the original factory works
/html/spitfires/1999-08/msg00567.html (8,833 bytes)

7. Re: Need repair manual recommendation (score: 1)
Author: "Donald H. Locker" <dhl@mrdog.msl.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 04:33:45 -0400
Robert Bentley, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) 800 423 4595 617 547 4170 publishes reprints of the original factory workshop manuals. Rather than 3-ring bound (original) Bentley prints softboun
/html/spitfires/1999-08/msg00568.html (9,705 bytes)

8. Re: Need repair manual recommendation (score: 1)
Author: "Bradley D. Richardson" <brichard@us.oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 08:57:58 -0700
Nope, Make that four please. Brad Richardson 79 spitfire. ==
/html/spitfires/1999-08/msg00571.html (9,724 bytes)

9. Re: Need repair manual recommendation (score: 1)
Author: "Donald H. Locker" <dhl@mrdog.msl.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:54:10 -0400
Ooooops! That should have been $70 for the Bentley book, but well worth it in my opinion. (I'm terribly embarassed; I really should have looked it up before posting, knowing how many folks rely on th
/html/spitfires/1999-08/msg00583.html (9,222 bytes)

10. Re: Need repair manual recommendation (score: 1)
Author: mrobertson@celcorp.com
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 13:58:30 -0600
I'm not sure if anybody listed the URL for Robert Bentley Publishers yet... http://www.rb.com/
/html/spitfires/1999-08/msg00586.html (7,979 bytes)

11. Re: Need repair manual recommendation (score: 1)
Author: "wizardz" <wizardz@maxinter.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 16:38:20 -0400
prices... wow! how they've changed. ...looking at my bookshelf.. pulled out all my old manuals from the 70's and '80s' from the boxes in the basement. Midget, Spit, MGB, Jag amoung others.... jeessee
/html/spitfires/1999-08/msg00590.html (10,302 bytes)

12. Re: Need repair manual recommendation (score: 1)
Author: "Donald H. Locker" <dhl@mrdog.msl.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:18:35 -0400
No fooling! I'm sure that's why I was thinking $17; I suspect my original 3-ring bound factory manual cost less than $25. Seemed like a fortune at the time, but that was 25 years ago! Donald.
/html/spitfires/1999-08/msg00603.html (11,332 bytes)

13. Re: Need repair manual recommendation (score: 1)
Author: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 00:08:59 -0400 (EDT)
I think you're about right. ISTR paying about $25 for the black factory Herald/Spitfire/Vitesse 1600 manual, circa 1971! --Andy * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Andrew Mace, President
/html/spitfires/1999-08/msg00613.html (8,431 bytes)

14. Re: Need repair manual recommendation (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 23:06:55 +0100
Depends what your after, nice introduction to mechanics, as well as how to do things on the Spitfire. Get the Haynes, if however you are a bit more confident of what the different parts are, then get
/html/spitfires/1999-08/msg00886.html (8,672 bytes)


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