Re: Your net worth has just increased....
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2000 5:43 am
It all depends - my copy of an original Motor Racing Publications Ltd.
"Blower" cost me 30 pounds years ago, so with inflation that is up several
times. And that is a 3rd. edition, 1953. 1st. & 2nd. edns. were 1952.
The modern reprint by Robert Bentley Inc. (softback, probably prone to page
fall-out if you actually used it or even tried to put it on a photocopier)
is a different animal altogether.
Incidently, some people refer to it as "the MG Workshop Manual" by Bentley,
probably because poor old Eric Blower's name does not appear at all on the
cover or spine. But then , he did not actually write it - almost everything
between the covers was "lifted" from original factory workshop notes and
manuals....
ocTagonally
TCROGER
TATerry wrote:
"Blower" cost me 30 pounds years ago, so with inflation that is up several
times. And that is a 3rd. edition, 1953. 1st. & 2nd. edns. were 1952.
The modern reprint by Robert Bentley Inc. (softback, probably prone to page
fall-out if you actually used it or even tried to put it on a photocopier)
is a different animal altogether.
Incidently, some people refer to it as "the MG Workshop Manual" by Bentley,
probably because poor old Eric Blower's name does not appear at all on the
cover or spine. But then , he did not actually write it - almost everything
between the covers was "lifted" from original factory workshop notes and
manuals....
ocTagonally
TCROGER
TATerry wrote:
>Holy Cecil Kimber....someone has bid a Blowers manual up to $255 on
>Ebay......a book that is available new from Amazon for $83.50...Barnum where
>are you? I hope this isn't any of my fellow listers!