Jaguar 3.8 Litre Mark 2 Model Operating Maintenance and Service Handbook Factory Original...

Those days... Before Volvo; when no one thought much of safety... Those days, when we awoke early and spent two hours on "forecourt" preparation... Checking everything over because we wanted to understand engineering aesthetically; touching the engine... When oil and gasoline and the smell of fresh-cut grass was our cologne; when the interior's smell of leather, horsehair, and dampness was a picnic of olfactory delight --- when hub caps were really caps that held the hub on, when opposite lock was the way you took high speed turns, sliding and steering at the same time. When no one whined. Do you remember when there were nearly no safety warnings in owner's manuals? Instead, information on how to adjust valve clearances? Oh my. It was so deliciously impossible; an occasional breakdown was an opportunity to meet friendly fellow motorists. This manual is from those days: it's mildly torn, oiled, and soiled, but has more personality than 66.6% of all our elected officials...actually it's fairly dirty and worn, the cover is detached from the staples... But look at those technical drawings! The paper is acid free and supple and beautifully white (where it's not soiled from handling). Look at the typography. More romance here then in the hallowed halls of some dusty, moth-eaten library. Take it with you on some excursion into a distant land and conjure up all the mechanical joys from an innocent age: before liability suits tore the heart out of creativity and risk -- one more thing; a person's word mattered in those days, if something was $16.00 that is exactly what it was. No add ons for taxes, for packing, for shipping, for insurance... Free shipping USA, $16.00 to bring you back home...