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How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
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First published in 1969, this classic manual of automotive repair equips VW owners with the knowledge to handle every situation they will come across with any air-cooled Volkswagen built through 1978, including Bugs, Karmann Ghis, vans, and campers. With easy-to-understand, fun-to-read information- for novice and veteran mechanics alike-anecdotal descriptions and clear language, this book takes mystery out of diagnostic, maintenance, and repair producers, and offers some chuckles along the way. How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by John Muir
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John Muir (1918-1977) was an aerospace engineer whom worked for
Lockheed, that "dropped out," 1960s-style, with become a long-haired
automobile technician with a garage inside Taos, New Mexico,
specializing inside upkeep plus repair of Volkswagens. He is a
descendant of the naturalist John Muir. In 1969, Muir collaborated with
all the cartoonist Peter Aschwanden with create the conclusive guide for
Volkswagen owners entitled How with Keep The Volkswagen Alive; A Manual
of Step-By-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot. Entirely
hand-lettered with intricate hand-drawn illustrations, Muir's
self-published edition available over 2 million duplicates with become
the most lucrative self-published books inside history, when its wry
subtitle preceded (plus probably inspired) the unending flow of "for
Dummies" books from IDG Publishing, plus additional "idiot's guide
with..." books. Currently, the 19th Edition, with up-to-date information
by Tosh Gregg plus Aschwanden remains commonly accessible.
Although initially published at the finish of the 1960s, the Volkswagen was an iconic 1960s car, plus inside retrospect this book is iconic of hippies' cool homemade, make-do culture.
Muir's next book, published inside 1973, The Velvet Monkeywrench, was an ambitious attempt with, because Muir place it, "lay out this structure, the bones of the completely fresh establishment," a proposal which included detailed plans for the substitution of the United States of America with all the Republic of North America. The book remains accessible from Ocean Tree Books.
Muir died inside November 1977 of the mind tumor, only brief of his 59th birthday. In 1999, John Muir Publications was available with Avalon Travel Publishing, with publishing rights with How with Keep . . . going with Avalon.
Although initially published at the finish of the 1960s, the Volkswagen was an iconic 1960s car, plus inside retrospect this book is iconic of hippies' cool homemade, make-do culture.
Muir's next book, published inside 1973, The Velvet Monkeywrench, was an ambitious attempt with, because Muir place it, "lay out this structure, the bones of the completely fresh establishment," a proposal which included detailed plans for the substitution of the United States of America with all the Republic of North America. The book remains accessible from Ocean Tree Books.
Muir died inside November 1977 of the mind tumor, only brief of his 59th birthday. In 1999, John Muir Publications was available with Avalon Travel Publishing, with publishing rights with How with Keep . . . going with Avalon.
