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Old 04-22-2020, 11:35 AM
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What is the difference in the available manuals out there? I've seen two different loose leaf version and a bound version. Do they have the same info? Is one better than the other?
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Old 04-22-2020, 01:05 PM
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What is the difference in the available manuals out there? I've seen two different loose leaf version and a bound version. Do they have the same info? Is one better than the other?
Can't speak for that year/model, but I had bought one for a 1970 GTO many years ago and it was 50-60% useless as many pages were faded or blurry. The printer of that copy had a disclaimer that many pages would be hard to read and that was the best version available. This crappy version is still sold by many places, and the one I had used the white cover page with purple text like the second example you posted.

2 years ago I bought a newer copy from Inline Tube (through eBay, which was cheaper for some reason), and it was much, much better. I would say 90-95% of that version was legible and clear. The Inline tube copy had a light blue cover page with an illustration of the car, similar to the last example you posted. In their advertisement, they pointed out that it was a better copy and more legible than others, and that turned out to be true.

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Which one did you get, the loose leaf or bound?

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Old 04-24-2020, 07:24 AM
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The blue sheet ones from Inline Tube are the high quality ones you can read, the regular white page ones everyone sells for $25 are not. I put them in a 3-ring binder. I am not aware of a bound version of that manual.

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Thanks guys. I ordered the Inline Tube manual.

Ben: The red and white one in the picture is bound. From what I can tell, it might be a reprint of the loose leaf version. Though I'm not exactly sure.

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Which one did you get, the loose leaf or bound?
Both versions I bought were loose leaf. Also nice to be able to take the drawing out and bring over to workbench or car.

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