Spider Book??

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bonsaiwino
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Spider Book??

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Ok, so I'm wondering what is the best book about Spiders that I should request for Christmas...?? Thanks guys!
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What year is your Spider. Different Manuals cover different year cars.
The different publishers also have slightly different info and photos in them so it is good to have more than one repair manual.
The reprint of the Fiat Factory repair manual has poor quality photos. The Haynes Manual has pretty good phots but only covers up to years 78.
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It's a '79 carbed.
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You looking for service manuals or more Fiat spider historish?
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Interested in a Spider history type book, if one exists.
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Yup, great book. Have looked at mine so often, the pages are starting to come out.
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1971 Spider -Tropie’ - w screaming IDFs
1971 Spider - Vesper -scrapped
1979 Spider - Seraphina - our son's car now sold
1972 Spider - Tortellini- our son's current
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Thanks very much for the suggestion. Just surprised that the review said that all photos are in black & white. Is it the difference between the hardback & paperback versions? Thanks again, guys.
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manoa matt
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Most of the pictures are in B&W, however there are many that are color. Some of those amazon prices are crazy, the book should be around $40. My pages are falling out too, bad, or not enough glue in the spine.
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Fairly certain I can part with mine for $470 - I can't believe anyone gets that for the book...
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