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Yesterday 1:18 PM  #2


Re: Saw this posted on Facebook

Critics abound, and I are one.  

300 pages to cover restoration of 9 model years?  That's about the same page count as the Haynes manual that covers the same model year spread (and which is not all that useful).  


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Yesterday 2:53 PM  #3


Re: Saw this posted on Facebook

Ill have to add that to my must read book list...lol  

 

Yesterday 8:07 PM  #4


Re: Saw this posted on Facebook

The Chilton manuals for first generation is worse.

I learned a lot from reading and understanding various components just because of the many pictures.

Worst part…neither have been updated with known mistakes or to even clarify stuff.
I have waited over 30 years and still no changes.

I guess these books fall in same category as long tube headers.

Maybe some day I can afford a year specific service manual…those suckers usta be expensive for a poor kid.

I just used mine the other day to help Sal troubleshoot his ‘66.😁

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Today 6:47 AM  #5


Re: Saw this posted on Facebook

Nos681 wrote:

The Chilton manuals for first generation is worse.

I learned a lot from reading and understanding various components just because of the many pictures.

Worst part…neither have been updated with known mistakes or to even clarify stuff.
I have waited over 30 years and still no changes.

I guess these books fall in same category as long tube headers.

Maybe some day I can afford a year specific service manual…those suckers usta be expensive for a poor kid.

I just used mine the other day to help Sal troubleshoot his ‘66.😁

I have that Haynes manual and several others.  Maybe my dissatisfaction with the Facebook thing is semantics.  To me "restoration" means fully and accurately returning something to its original condition.  I have a whole bunch of books that are intended to document repair and the as-built configuration just for my model year car and there are still gaps in coverage that would preclude a true restoration of my 1966 model-year vehicle.  So it's hard for me to believe that a single 300 page document that claims to be a "Mustang Bible" is going to be anything approaching a comprehensive restoration book for each of the 8 model year vehicles it claims to address. 

The books I have, which together have a page count far in excess of 300, are useful for repair.  But there isn't any one of them that is a do-all, end-all resource that covers each thing I've had to do to just my 1966 car over the years.

 


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