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Re: Read any good Books?

To: spitfires@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Read any good Books?
From: "Ryan Smith" <shmitty99@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 13:52:54 PDT
I'd like to find a MkIV Bentley manual.  Where's the best (cheapest) 
place to get one?

Ryan Smith

>From: GatesDavid@aol.com
>Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 14:25:53 EDT
>To: spitfires@Autox.Team.Net
>Subject: Read any good Books?
>Reply-To: GatesDavid@aol.com
>
>I guess its time to get serious and buy a decent book.  All I have now 
is a
>REALLY beat up haynes manual.  I have a '73 Spitfire 1500 and a '78 
Spitfire
>1500.  VB has catalog num 9-1322 (Factory Workshop Manual) covers 73-80 
so it
>seems like a good choice.  But, when I look at Spitbits they have "The
>Spitfire MK IV Workshop Manual: 71-74" and "The complete official 
Triumph
>Spitfire: 1500  75-80".  My '73 is a 1500, so is the first Spitbits 
book the
>correct one (wrong model but correct year) or is the second one correct
>(correct year but wrong model)?  Also, all these say that they are 
original
>reprints, so how can the one that VB sells be for different year ranges 
than
>the Spitbits version?  I would prefer to buy only one manual that 
covers both
>cars if I can.  Does anyone have the appropriate book that they want to 
sell?
>
>David Gates
>'73 Spitfire 1500  (FM3891U)
>'78 Spitfire 1500  (FM72800UC)
>Hawaii
>http://members.aol.com/gatesdavid/index.htm
>



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