Ad absurdum per aspera wrote:
>
> > I haven't seen Clymer manuals for a long time. Anybody know
> > if they're still around?
>
> I hadn't thought about Clymer in a while. It looks as though they're
> still around (http://www.clymer.com/) but seem to have bailed out of
> the automobile market in favor of concentrating on other sorts of
> vehicles and engines, as well as various trade publications, mostly
> concerning electrical gear. Pity; they used to be one of the class
> acts in aftermarket car-repair manuals.

A Clymer manual came with my 1960 Ducati Monza. It was an excellent manual
("If you lose your key, replace it with a piece of metal of the same
approximate size.") with some interesting quirks: A complete labeled exploded
engine illustration occupied two pages, while a drawing of a sparkplug (also
labeled) took up half a page (vertical). Now the Ducati is lumped in with all
the other "pro vintage 4-stroke motorcycles" in one manual.

We met Floyd Clymer when had an Indian dealership (sadly reduced to the
cute-as-hell Little (or maybe Li'l) Indian, a tiny jewel for 6-year-olds) and
manual shop (I think) in Los Angeles a long time ago. Voila:
http://hometown.aol.com/indianminimi...pageindex.html

> My experience has been that buying one or both aftermarket manuals (I
> guess the USAmerican choices are now down to Chilton and Haynes) is
> necessary if you rely solely on them for anything more advanced than
> oil changes and so forth... and helpful even if you are serious enough
> about it to shell out for the "real" shop manual for your car.

The Clymer 'vintage' manual is $29. How much are REAL shop manuals now?

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Cheers, Bev
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