Yeah Greg, but I bet in spite of the greasy finger prints, you can still see the nuts and bolts
in the pictures instead of just a black silhouette of the block where the cylinder is
supposed to be.
Those original manuals are usually way to pricey for me Tim. I always look thru the book
vendors at swap meets but it seems like the standard going price for an original shop
manual is upwards of a hundred bucks. I bought an original 1947-72 ½ thru1 ton Chassis
and Body Parts Catalog when I first brought the old gal home. It was as Greg described,
well worn, pages yellowed with feathered edges and being loose leaf was bound together
with a ACCO prong fastener. Loose leaf also meant there was no way of telling if it was all
there. I got the guy down form ninety bucks to seventy five but that was the bottom.
The point I was trying to make was, that the publishers got it right on the early reprinted
shop manual but lost it on the ‘54.
However, it beats the heck out of not having anything at all and even though the illustrations
are for crap, the prints not and it still makes for good reading.
DG
Last edited by Denny Graham; 10/06/2011 12:05 PM.
