Date:         Sun, 9 Jul 1995 09:07:18 -0600 (MDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         John_K_Hopp <jhopp@unm.edu>
Subject:      (Passionate defense of) John Muir. Again.


Whew!  A most thorough defense, Steve. ;-)

My .02 (we must have about $10.00 by now) is to use the Holy Trilogy:  
Haynes, for detail and experience ("Each manual is based on a compleat 
breakdown, blah, blah...); Bentley, for the tight%ss method ("using VW tool 
#3458394 and shaving all body hair before beginning work"), etc.; and 
Muir, for the how-to-do-it portion, rather how the Compleat Idiot would 
do it.  I, too, was more-or-less an 
automotive ignurt before I bought my first car (a VW, of course).  

JKH--Alburquerque
'70 Kombi (on it's way back--today=new ignition switch)

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