Scored on some old manuals, woohooo

[MK1Scirocco16v at comcast.net (Dave Ewing)]

I got a score like that once when I went to a garage sale down the street.
The sale was at the house of a guy I knew that owned a shop in town and he
bought it from a import guy that focused on VWs.  When I got there and
scored on mass parts (NOS) both air and water cooled, got a CIS injector
testor (pump type) for $10 cause no one knew what it was for and two crates
of old VW manuals, training manuals, labor guide, etc. etc.  Then when I
asked where he was they said that he crashed his project Scout down the road
from my house a week earlier (wondered what all the comotion was) and killed
himself and one of his employees!!!  Blew me away!  Shop is still going
strong though!

Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jester@westfailure.net>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 1:50 PM
Subject: Scored on some old manuals, woohooo


> Hey all,
>
> I hope i'm not gloating, but just wanted to share where someone might
> care... Most people dont quite get likong old WCVW's as they have little
> monetary value or social cachet (like a bug etc.)
>
> at a flea market/garage sale I bought a box of old VW books. Got some very
> cool stuff. These are all FACTORY vw books, like a VW dealer would be
> issued not bentley's for the consumer market, all but one were printed in
> germany listing VW as the publisher :)
>
> repair manual type17 rabbit type 53 scircco 1974 printing (the original!!)
> repair manual type17 rabbit type 53 scircco 1979 printing supplemets 1-36
> separate binder with rabbit scirocco supplements 37-114!)
> Scirocco Rabbit introductory service training information (vwoa publ.)
> repair manual type 32/33 dasher 1978 printing incl. supplements 1-51
> reminder stickers to stick in the manual to send you to a supplement
>
> none of this stuff is for sale, as I dont normally score on documentation,
> but wanted to share my find & I may scan a few pages here & there to
> share, or if anyone has any specific questions about supplemets or
> procedures or whatever in there I can look it up.
>
> The box also came with a chiltons 1972-77 import car repair manual,
> thats for sale, cheap, heh.
>
> take care,
>
> Steve
>
>
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