Hi busers, I was in a silly used bookstore/50s memorabilia place here in Ann Arbor yesterday and found a book "36 & 40 H.P. Volkswagen Transporters Workshop Manual." It's a '67 reprint of a '63 book published by Scientific Publications of Australia. I paid $27.50, not too bad (my brooklands reprint of an old English manual was $30 plus shipping); the guy who had the shop said first editions of this book go for like $100. Anyone else seen one of these? Anyway, it's pretty cool, has quite a bit of "use VW tool 245a to check the spring plate inclination" but seems to have some more detail than my Clymer and Brooklands and I don't need to wade through useless stuff about ball joints etc. :-) The photos are I'm sure lifted right out of standard VW dealer shop manuals: the guys in ties taking out engines, etc. (What, you mean you _don't_ wear a tie when working on your bus?!). Interestingly, it mentions a "back up light" below the driver's side taillight, with the switch in the shift rod. I've never seen this in an early bus, was it some kind of Aus spec? My favorite sentence so far: "The closed body of clean and pleasing countours offers extremely low air resistance." Mark mjanello@umich.edu '62 Kombi
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