Re: AMC books on ebay..

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, richard ferron wrote:

> I bid on his books last year. I asked him if he would ship to Canada, and he
> said no, so some of you will recall I asked for someone to receive the books
> for me in the US. I told him I'd secured a US address. When I won the auction,
> he freaked, cancelled it, left me negative feedback and a nasty message. No
> amount of reasoning got through to this guy.

I would not want to get in an argument with him either.


> A fellow lister sent me a copy of his books. After I saw them, I was glad that
> I had not paid the Ebay price for them, as they seemed to me to be a
> compilation of disjointed thoughts poorly copied and stapled together. I
> suppose there is some good info there, but you have to work to find it; it is
> not in any discernable order at all. And personally, I don't care how safe he
> says it is, I would not drive a unibody car that had the floor repaired with
> fiberglass!

THere is a bit of automotive survivalism in there I agree. I
do feel they are an asset though, he works out a lot of detail
that gets glossed over, or ignored. Its scattered all through
he books though. I'm glad I bought them.