AA book of the car

[moggiethouable]

For anybody like me needing a refresher course on the basic fundamentals,or an absolute newcomer to the infernal combustion engine, I acquired a copy of the AA book of the car, circa 1970 in a second hand store yesterday.
£3.00 seemed a bargain, so I trekked it home and I wasnt wrong,terrific drawings and everything in readable English, if you aint got one then look out for a copy, well worth anyones powder and shot.[frame][/frame][frame][/frame]

[MarkyB]

See if you can find the Ladybird book of the car, cracking book and has all the basics for a Minor.

[Ian46]

I too have a copy of this hilarious and very dated publication. I can't lay my hands on it at the moment (probably in the loft somewhere) but I remember there is a section on bodywork in which a MK2 Jaguar saloon is shown having it's cills repaired with chicken wire and filler. How times have changed!

Regards Ian

[JOWETTJAVELIN]

Now it's just plug it into a computer and give us yer dosh. I like the old home maintenance

A full service for under £40 at home.

[moggiethouable]

I just thought in parts it was a nice overview of lots of parts that need demystifying.
Apart from everything else, a find like that cheers up a day that consists of being dragged down some high street by the missus, hands stuffed deep in my shorts pockets sulking,encouraging me of course by taking my ear between thumb and forefinger and making me squint as she frog marches me in to yet another shoe shop.
Which reminds me of my mother holding me by the collar with her left hand, while swinging at the backs of my legs with her right shouting "stand still you little b"££*r while I hit you" after some high street misdemeanour or other.
Did anyone else learn to run at speed, going round in circles while bent at the knees, so your mum couldnt connect with the back of your legs?
Should be an olympic sport

[randomafterthought]

Which reminds me of my mother holding me by the collar with her left hand, while swinging at the backs of my legs with her right shouting "stand still you little b"££*r while I hit you"

This made me smile. A friend used to regale us with stories about how he thought his Mum took him to the supermarket just to smack him .

I respect the parent who still has the guts to give their offspring a quick smack when it is being a little b*gger? OK, It's not right to batter the child, but a quick smack on the back of the legs worked fine for many hundreds of years. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I am sure that "modern parenting" has much to do with the increasing number of little b***ards on the go today (or perhaps the move away from a community based society to a "me first" mentality).

p.s. There are a couple of Labybird car books, now "classics" on Amazon, here and here.

david

(edited to add the links I was posting in the first place)/

[lambrettalad]

I was a little angel

[randomafterthought]

I was a little angel

Is that a mouth on the smiley face, or a slipped halo? :

d

[MarkyB]

'How it Works' : The Motor Car, that's the one, less detail than the AA book hence much less scary for the beginner.
The O level to the AA's A level.

[moggiethouable]

Thanks for that I shall take a look on flea bay