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Re: Why I like working retail

To: "Dziuba, Larry" <LarryD@pengrowth.com>,
Subject: Re: Why I like working retail
From: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 13:05:05 -0400
That's the Classicmotorbooks reprint which is a copy of the Clymer which is
a copy of the official Nissan manual.

The original Nissan manual had part nos in them. Clymer's left out almost
all the numbers and probably not by choice.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dziuba, Larry" <LarryD@pengrowth.com>
To: "'Stephen McCartney'" <sgam@hotmail.com>;
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 10:39 AM
Subject: RE: Why I like working retail


> I'm pretty sure my manual is also a white covered/blue lettered/ 1 1/4"
> thick Clymer manual.  Larry.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen McCartney [mailto:sgam@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 1:59 AM
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Why I like working retail
>
>
> Just the other day, a guy walks in to the store I work in (an auto
> accessories and parts place in Melbourne - Autobarn to you Aussies on the
> list) and asks "Who's is that red roadster out there?".  When I told him
it
> was mine, he starts chatting away happily about them - he used to have
one,
> but sold it in 1982.  So we're chatting away, and he says he thinks he's
got
>
> some parts lying around, if I'm interested...
>
> Well, yesterday, he comes back in, and hands me a bag with a brass synchro
> ring, and 3 of those rubber mounts for the Solex carbs (dunno what
happened
> to the last one...) and then offers me a Service manual for $40!  In
perfect
>
> condition, too!  Only just last week I'd been wishing for one.  I guess
the
> Universe provides.  I'd never heard of the publisher before - Clymer
> Publications - but apparently its a translation from a Japanese manual.
> Pretty funny translations at times, but nothing that hampers it's use.  A
> real score!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve
> (1968 2000 Solex)
>
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