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
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