Re: AMC books on ebay..

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 imfatdad@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I saw that Dick Datson has put more of his books on ebay.  ( gatorsupercharger is the seller name)  I purchased a book from him, on ebay, a couple of years ago.  Has anyone else purchased from him??  I thought the "book" was unorganized and somewhat incomplete.  The page following started another topic when I expected more info to be given on previous page..  I believe he even stated in the forward that all inside was a compilation of articles and letters written to and for an AMC club he was with previously.  Anyone else have any thoughts or opinions on this??  

I bought two of 'em, on sixes, and turbo. They ARE disorganized,
compilations of clippings, letters, articles, etc. They're
worth getting. He doesn't make any claims that they're other
than collections of data gathered over the years.

He's a little shrill with his turbo ideas, but he's essentially
correct; for a good example of this see http://www.stude.com/Ted/
covered in latest Hemmings Muscle.

If you want to do to motors what everyone else does (big
displacement, V8s, 4bbls carbs, headers, etc) they'll be a
waste. If you want to make projects out of the weird stuff
(turbo 195.6? whatever) then it's great.

I joined Dick's mailing list for a while.... hmm well let's say,

that didn't work out too well for me.