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To: Triumph Newsgroup <triumphs@autox.team.net>, "'Amici Triumphi'" <fot@autox.team.net>
Subject: MANUALS for sale
From: jmwagner <jmwagner@greenheart.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 12:55:29 -0800
READ FIRST:  IF YOU'RE NOT LOOKING FOR A MANUAL, DELETE now, and carry
on!  :)

I've put to gether a cache of manuals from various used bookstores...
I'm going to try to fly through these descriptions, here it goes:

"Chilton's Repair and Tune-Up Guide:  1971-72 Spitfire Mark IV, 1973
Spitfire 1500, 1971-73 GT6 Mark III, 1969-73 TR 6"  "Repairs,
Specifications, Do-It-Yourself Maintenance"  It's titled "Triumph 2" I
have no idea why... it's not for TR 2's...  Copyright 1974   "First
Edition"???, NEW, but shelf worn.  10" x 6 3/4" x 7/8"    $20.00

"GT6 Vitesse Owners Workshop Manual"  Autobook 723 By Kenneth Ball,
Triumph GT6, Mk2, 3, Vitesse 2 litre Mk 2 1969-73, NEW, shelf worn, 7
1/2" x 9 3/4" x 5/8", new, shelf worn, $20.00

"Triumph 2000 Mk 2 Owners Workshop Manual" Autobook 784 by Kenneth Ball,
Triumph 2000 Mk 2, 2.5 PI Mk 2 1969074, 1974, 7 1/2" x 9 3/4" x 5/8",
new, shelf worn, $20.00

"Triumph 1300, 1500 Owners Workshop Manual" Autobok 870, By Kenneth
Ball, Triumph 1300, 1500, 1965-73, 1976, 7 1/2" x 9 3/4" x 5/8", NEW,
shelf worn, $20.00

"Triumph Herald 1969-70 Autobook, "Workshop Manual for the Triumh Herald
1200 and 13/60, 1969-70, by Kenneth Ball, Autopress Ltd., 7 1/2 x 9 3/4"
x 5/8", New, shelf scuffs/worn, $20.00

"Triumph Vitesse, Triumph GT 6, All MOdels 1962 on, 1596 cc, 1998 cc"
"Owners Workshop Manual, By J.L. S. Maclay, Photography by J. H. Haynes,
(This is what would later be called a "Haynes Manual", it's just an
earlier one printed in England),  8 3/8" x 10 3/4" x 1/2", 192 pages,
New, shelf worn, $20.00

"Triumph TR 7, All models, 1975 through 1981, 122 cu in (2.0 Litre),
Automotive Repair Manual, HAYNES, 197 pages, NEW, $18.00

"Herald 1959 on, Triumph Herald S, 1200,m 12/50, 13/60, All Models"
"Owners Workshop Manual, 948 cc, 1147 cc, 1296 cc, by J.H. HAYNES, 203
pages NEW, $20.00

Triumph TR 8, Factory Manual, reprint... I just found it in my
storage... a few years ago I bought a friend's TR 8, but decided not to
keep it.  It went, but the manual got lost in the shuffle.  This was a
NEW manual, but is oneofthe reprints.  I had taken it to KINKOS and had
the binding removed... and then had it rebound with a plastic spiral
binding... so that the book would last longer... and, more importantly,
lay FLAT while working on the car... (it was driving me crazy).
Anyways.. I ended up doing little on the car... so the book is like new,
albeit rebound...   I'm asking $35.00

Prices do not include shipping.  Most will probably be $3.20 domestic.

Please, years ago, when I offered such finds to the group... it was the
cause of many a flame and thread...  In the end... the majority spoke...
they were simply happy that I would go through the trouble to find these
books and bring them here.  (The opportuntiy cost of time and materials:
fuel/effort to find them, transport them, list them, deal with the
responses, answer questions, etc. , deposit funds, package and post, and
travel to the post office... CLEARLY.. shows that we're talking minimum
wage here guys, if even that..)

The funniest flames were about my prices... with some happy as clams,
and others bitter.  Then when everyone went to E-bay to sell such
things...   prices went way up... but the flames ended...   interesting
to me!  Anyways... Here they are... It the price is too high, don't go
for it.   Please no flames.  I would be better off putting these on
E-bay... but thought I'd just re-live the ol' days before e-bay... and
offer them here.


--Justin Wagner





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