On a few seperate threads, young Rick Burgen is doing his best to get a 63 Avanti running with our help, with little experience working on old cars, or any car from what I can gather.
I didn't do ANY work on autos until I became the proud owner of a 1972 VW Beetle in about 1980 at the age of 25. It came with a wonderful book "The compleat idiot's guide to Volkswagen maintenance" by John Muir. Compleat (sic) idiot described me perfectly...and this book was something else! Written in a breezy, entertaining late 60s hippie style (Muir was a Lockheed Aircraft engineer society drop-out) it had crude but brillant drawings by R. Crumb, I believe and operated under the principle that ANY VW owner should know how to keep the little beast running themselves. I learned how to wrench on that little bug, and the experience served me well when I started collecting Studes and keeping them on the road - since 1988 when I bought my R-2 GT Hawk, no one has ever touched it but me, and I owe that to John Muir. It's a shame we don't have something similar for Studebakers to help guys like Rick. Stan Gundry's Avanti book is the closest one I can think of.
Anybody else remember "The compleat idiot's guide to VW maintenance"?
Russ Farris
I didn't do ANY work on autos until I became the proud owner of a 1972 VW Beetle in about 1980 at the age of 25. It came with a wonderful book "The compleat idiot's guide to Volkswagen maintenance" by John Muir. Compleat (sic) idiot described me perfectly...and this book was something else! Written in a breezy, entertaining late 60s hippie style (Muir was a Lockheed Aircraft engineer society drop-out) it had crude but brillant drawings by R. Crumb, I believe and operated under the principle that ANY VW owner should know how to keep the little beast running themselves. I learned how to wrench on that little bug, and the experience served me well when I started collecting Studes and keeping them on the road - since 1988 when I bought my R-2 GT Hawk, no one has ever touched it but me, and I owe that to John Muir. It's a shame we don't have something similar for Studebakers to help guys like Rick. Stan Gundry's Avanti book is the closest one I can think of.
Anybody else remember "The compleat idiot's guide to VW maintenance"?
Russ Farris
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