[vettestr]

Chuck,
I get a kick out of reading the circa 1965 to maybe 1970 Motor manuals. You can find them in garage sales or where ever but the true Motors manuals have a ton of diagnostics and test procedures that you just can not find in other places. They take you through step by step test and rebuild areas that use common shop or hand held tools. These hot rods can be worked on and I enjoy doing that. This is my sanity check from the buzz of the regular world, I just go play with my toys.
This is before todays $80,000 and up diagnostic computers found at dealerships and shops today. The avarage guy is just screwed trying to work on a 2007 whatever car without an interface computer and the propritary software to even reset the ECM after a simple repair. I got off on a tangent but just miss the good old days of common sense and simple testing to fix your car instead of the black box technology of today.