Re: New AMC book.... what would you like to see??

[Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>]

Starting with the mid-60's, the books would have to get pretty big to cover 
everything for a particular body style the way you have them broken down. 
There were lots of changes made due to safety and (especially) emission 
regulations (particularly with 67 and up Rebel and Matador). Some of the 
stuff would be easy to cover (like you have to have shoulder belts and a 
dash mounted VIN if the car was made in January of 1968 or later) but think 
about how different the emissions systems are between a 1967 Rebel and a 
1978 Matador or how about the differences between a 1970 Hornet and a 1988 
Eagle?

Matt


At 11:00 AM 12/9/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> " From: Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>
> "
> " I'd like to see restoration guides as well but to do those justice, you'd
> " have to focus on a particular car and probably even have to break things
> " down by body style since there are some major changes that happened over
> " the years.
>
> i think it might make more sense to organize them along body-shell
> lines - eg. 63-6 classic/ambo, '64-9 american, '67-'78
> rebel/matador/ambo, '70-up hornet/gremlin/concord/spirit/eagle, pacer.
> i guess you'd separate '68-'70 jav/amx and '71-4 jav into two volumes,
> and one for '50-'63 rambler/american, but i don't know enough about
> the other older cars.  imho for the met it would make sense to also
> include similar austin/mg/etc cars.
>
> select for commonality, minimize duplication and workload.
>
> " Outside of the "glory cars" (and Jeep), there aren't many models
> " that would support the effort required. Met's might but I'm not sure
> " what else would.
>
> sad but true.
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