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Happy new year all!

What was your best Christmas present then? My daughter got all the best stuff.

Haynes Cobra manual:
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AC vest - apparently there weren't any grown-up sizes available:
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I got socks.

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We went to stay with our son, his wife and our two grandchildren.

I got a lego sports car which I built and left with our grandson so he can play with it!

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Got the same Haynes manual and a new Bahco socket set.
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What do you think of the manual? I can't get a look-in - Rosie has been reading it since Christmas... The pictures look good.
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I've got it as well and I was rather hoping it would be a bit more of a "manual", but I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that it isn't.

I also got an out if print copy of a book on the 308 Ferrari along with a rather lovely 1/18th scale model of one.

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I got a bill from the man who took the engine out of my Sebring.
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amulheirn wrote:What do you think of the manual? I can't get a look-in - Rosie has been reading it since Christmas... The pictures look good.
As Paul said I had hoped there were more Haynes cutaway drawings and more of a workshop manual but it's not a bad little book. I think it's well worth it!
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PeterT wrote:I got a bill from the man who took the engine out of my Sebring.

I hope it came in a Christmas card!
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amulheirn wrote:What do you think of the manual? I can't get a look-in - Rosie has been reading it since Christmas... The pictures look good.
As Paul said I had hoped there were more Haynes cutaway drawings and more of a workshop manual but it's not a bad little book. I think it's well worth it!
I guess so - Haynes' exploded diagrams were often useful, but the photos in the regular manuals were always a bit pants. I recall puzzling over an Austin 1100 manual for many hours in a damp lean-to garage trying to figure out what I was looking at in the picture, versus what I was seeing in real-life! So I was pleased to see high-quality photos of a dismantled car in the 'Anatomy of a Cobra' section. Not something you see every day. And also glad to see a lot pics from the author and also the ACOC's archive that I'd not seen before.
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The Haynes book is definitely useful, with some good diagrams and pics as already noted. I haven't studied it in detail yet, but did notice that the brakes section seems to deal only with the racing calipers and not those fitted to production cars.
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