<VV> CORVAIR SHOP MANUAL on DVD ? (Response to Old post)

[Charles Lee]

Is the Corvair manual available on CD/DVD ?

I've seen excerpts but they seem to be scans of the GM manuals with the
same errors and omissions.

Has anyone issued a 'corrected' version ?

Does GM still hold the copyright, or has it fallen into the public
domain ?

Can one of us scan it in and make comments and corrections without GM
hitting us with 'copyright infringement' ?

I wouldn't mind paying for them, but the ones I've seen are just
verbatim copies.
Do we have to design it from scratch to avoid lawsuits ?

Like this :
http://www.yourbuyersinn.com/Cars/Corvair/CorvairIgnitionWiring.jpg

This diagram is not in the manual and I couldn't find one I could use so
I made this one.
It is mine so there is no problem with copyrights.

I'd like to scan in the originals and modify them (or see someone else
do some) for online access too.

What do you guys think ?  Is there a need for this ?  Which parts ?

Charlie





-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Corbin [mailto:airvair at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:37 PM
To: Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per; John Kepler; Jim Houston
Cc: Virtual Vairs
Subject: Re: <VV> 1965 CHEVROLET CORVAIR SHOP SERVICE MANUAL on DVD ?


Just try to find the '66-9 front spoiler via CD parts book. You can't.
That's because GM never called it a spoiler. The first time I found it
was when a friend told me that he stumbled into it while leafing thru
the parts book. Yes, a PAPER catalog. Same goes for a lot of parts,
because the industry terminology is sometimes different than laymen's
slang. THAT's why I said, CD's will never totally replace paper books
and manuals, and that there's a place for everything.

Let me know how your computer search goes. LOL

-Mark


> [Original Message]
> Subject: Re: <VV> 1965 CHEVROLET CORVAIR SHOP SERVICE MANUAL on DVD ?
>
> Try searching for something that is not in the index (I always update
> 'paper' indexes in books when I stumble across something)
>
> In a paper book, it's a lot harder to find some 'catch phrase' that 
> you
> remember, but don't recall where it was.
>
> On disc, "Edit -> Find" works nicely, and even Windows "Start -> 
> Search"
> will let you look for a phrase in any document on your disc(s) if you
have 
> the time to wait for it to find it, but it's great - and try that in 
> your
> book collection !
>
> Chaz
> ----- Original Message -----
> Subject: RE: <VV> 1965 CHEVROLET CORVAIR SHOP SERVICE MANUAL on DVD ?
>
> > Hardly flat-earth, buddy. Discs are great for preserving rare 
> > documents (which is why the LoC is doing that), but are often lousy 
> > for research. Depends on how sortable the info is. Plus there's 
> > always the "stumble-into" factor, something that's almost impossible

> > to do with a disc but often invaluable in finding obscure 
> > information. Anyone who has leafed thru things like a parts manual 
> > or order catalog can appreciate that. And can you imagine how 
> > devastating discs would be to impulse buying, if ALL shopping were 
> > done that way? THAT's why discs are NEVER going to REPLACE paper 
> > copies, merely SUPPLEMENT and archive the information that's on 
> > paper.
> >
> > Everything has its place, and that's why book printing and selling 
> > will never cease. If anyone is flat-earth, it's you 
> > "high-tech-at-all-costs" people.
> >
> > -Mark