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I have a stack of them here if anyone wants one, there's some fairly obscure models in there - Chrysler 180 anyone?  I don't know how many earlier 70s Datsun Cherries and Toyota 1000s are left, either.

The Cavalier one's gone but I think all the others are still here.

Edit: I lie, the Chrysler one is actually an Autodata book.  

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I have sold a lot on ebay,  and some have gone for up to £20 though a minimal profit is the case for those where there are more manuals than demand.  I had one for I think a Renault 30.  I looked on Howmanyleft.com and there were about ten, but there were 13 manuals for sale on ebay.  Thinking that my chances were slim, I advertised it and was surprised that it sold to someone in Germany.  I got a load from a man who died but it was mostly re-homing rather than getting rich.  I'll never know why he had quite so many.

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1 minute ago, lisbon_road said:

I have sold a lot on ebay,  and some have gone for up to £20 though a minimal profit is the case for those where there are more manuals than demand.  I had one for I think a Renault 30.  I looked on Howmanyleft.com and there were about ten, but there were 13 manuals for sale on ebay.  Thinking that my chances were slim, I advertised it and was surprised that it sold to someone in Germany.  I got a load from a man who died but it was mostly re-homing rather than getting rich.  I'll never know why he had quite so many.

I've got two for a Mazda Montrose. I think there are only 6 left on the road and one owner is on here!

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I used to buy Haynes manuals because I have always been interested in the nuts and bolts of car design and before the internet, there was little else cheaply available to shine a light into these oily corners.

For an owner / mechanic, some of the manuals were encouragingly thin - Princess / Ambassador for example.

And some were uselessly thick - Audi 80 mk1: pages and pages of generalised information and useless wiring info.  Useless because wiring varied so much from model to model. This was also the first Haynes I found errors in. 

I do have a Haynes Porsche 911 manual, for pre ‘83 cars. It really is pretty comprehensive and whilst I am now unlikely to own such a car, it does tell me a lot about 911s that nothing else as cheap would tell me.

That 914 manual that @JimH referred to: weirdly that was one of two manuals available in the mobile library that visited when I was a teenager. The other was for Mk3 Zephyr/Zodiac...

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1 hour ago, Blake's Den said:

went to photographs as they were easier for the average person to understand.

I suspect these were just easier to obtain or cheaper to produce.

It may also be that manufacturers simply refused to share their drawings with Mr. Haynes.

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22 minutes ago, Bitzer said:

I suspect these were just easier to obtain or cheaper to produce.

It may also be that manufacturers simply refused to share their drawings with Mr. Haynes.

I don't think that is quite the case. I've got a book which covers the history of Haynes and the feedback that they had in the early 90s was that many did not understand a technical cut away of a gearbox.

They say it was actually harder to do the photographs (pre digital of course)

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