In a message dated 95-07-10 10:34:50 EDT, you write:

>Whew!  A most thorough defense, Steve. ;-)
>
>My .02 (we must have about $10.00 by now) is to use the Holy Trilogy:  
>Haynes, for detail and experience ("Each manual is based on a compleat 
>breakdown, blah, blah...); Bentley, for the tight%ss method ("using VW tool 
>#3458394 and shaving all body hair before beginning work"), etc.; and 
>Muir, for the how-to-do-it portion, rather how the Compleat Idiot would 
>do it.  I, too, was more-or-less an 
>automotive ignurt before I bought my first car (a VW, of course).  
>
>JKH--Alburquerque
>'70 Kombi (on it's way back--today=new ignition switch)

Excellent description of the Bentley manual!  I wish Haynes had one for the
diesel Vanagon.  Did Muir ever go into the VW diesels?

BTW  I used to have a '67 van.