I\'ve been putting together a PDF ( or e-book) of magazine articles on the 1st gen RX7 which includes roadtests, buying guides, maintenance guides, brochures, adverts, etc, etc.
It\'s only for fun, not financial gain and everyone will be welcome to a copy for free ( if they want one!) when it\'s done.
Many of use have some of these stored away but I thought it would be nice to put them all together in one book, albeit a PDF one.
I\'m up to 143 pages at the moment but it could go into many hundreds. I\'ve been concentrating on UK articles so far but would like to appeal for scans of any features members may have.
I\'m especially interested in any from the monthly classic magazines.
Didn\'t Practical Classics have a fb as a project about 10 years back and gave it away as a prize? (that sort of thing)
I\'m going to suss out how to make the thing ( as it stands so far) downloadable this weekend and then you will be able to see whats already included. If anyone has better quality scans of items already included, please let me have them and I\'ll replace the inferior copy.
If anyone has anything I could use, please email them to me at:
ian08 at sky.com
thanks
Got any of the Hurley triple rotor stuff? The SU carbed 18a with 250bhp?
Not yet!
I\'ve also had a couple of well meaning emails from people worried about copyright implications.
It\'s a grey area but I\'m not going to get involved with anything that will cause me grief.
I\'m not going to publish it anywhere or make it widely available. If forum members known to me contribute any articles they own and would like a copy I will send them one but that it as far as it will go.
Some road tests are 31 years old from publications that no longer exist but there is always someone looking to object to anything they can.
If I get any negative feedback from anywhere at all I\'ll keep it to myself and send it nowhere. I\'m doing it for my benefit, no one elses!
Well, I got a few clippings that I would be more than happy to share with you (need to get them scanned in and not currently in my posession) so you can keep them all to yourself and not give me a copy (wink wink) so you dont infringe copyright, in the unlikely event that a copyright reresentative comes knocking on my door, he can come in and I can tell him where to go over a nice cuppa.
Might take me a week or so, but I got a 18a road test and a few other interesting/odd bits.
Oh, and just in case you ever needed to contact me you can try ramon 959 at yahoo com au
Thanks!
Hi Ian,
Ive got a few bits but I havnt got a scanner, I will list them on an e-mail, let me know if there are any you havnt got.
Keith...
Cool, cheers guys!
What a great idea Ian - can\'t wait to see progress. Top man - Cliff
A friend at work passed me a 2 page spread on a rally car. Will get it scanned in an sent on today :D
Shaun
Yes, Yes Yes, I\'ll get my stuff together next few days.
PS I\'ve got that Practical Classics article with the Black FB as a prize as well...
Got to go mid forum....Granddaughter aged 1 just piled in with her mum.
Article sent :D
Please add me to the list for a copy when its all compiled :D
Shaun
Quote from: shaunwil;705176Article sent :D
Please add me to the list for a copy when its all compiled :D
Shaun
Cheers Shaun, that\'s a great article.
I\'ll copy you in when it\'s all done.
Ian
Ian
Scans sent to your email address, you should find them interesting.
Dibs
Quote from: A7RXY;705525Ian
Scans sent to your email address, you should find them interesting.
Dibs
Thanks Dibs, very nice!
I\'ll copy you in.
cheers,
Ian
Guys,
I\'ve had some great items sent to me for this collection and it\'ll be a great read.
I\'m going to put it all together next week. ( it\'s easier to get all the docs and then convert them into a pdf all together rather than add bits in later).
If anyone has anything they would like included, please email it to me before Friday next week...
I\'ll then put it all together.
cheers,
Ian
Did you get mine?
Quote from: RamoNZ;708082Did you get mine?
Sure did, thanks very much... I\'ll copy you in when I put it all together!
Any progress on this?
Quote from: RamoNZ;712228Any progress on this?
It\'s been a long time coming but the 1st edition is done.
(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss333/gsxrmovistar1/ebookcoverpage.jpg)
It still needs some work, mainly the index needs doing and I still have scans sent to me that I\'ve yet to include but at the moment the book stands at 344 pages and there are some fantastic articles in there.
A big thanks to everyone who sent articles in, especially those who spent their valuable time scanning their collections for me, I really appreciate it, ....thankyou.
I had an idea but no knowledge of how to go about putting this together when I started, I\'d never even made a pdf file before so I\'m please at how this has turned out.
I\'m struggling to compress the file enough at the moment for it to download fast. I\'ve uploaded it to here...
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B8jAGJaws4QeOTIxZmNkMGQtY2JlMS00MzI3LTg0MWQtOWU3MTc5OGMzYzg1&sort=name&layout=list&num=50
and you can download it from this location.
Beware though that it is 267mb so will take a while to come down if you have a slow connection.
Alternatively, I\'m happy to put the file onto a disc and post it out to regular
1st gen forum members who would like a copy for free ( within reason, I\'m not going into mass production!)
Email me a postal address if you want a disc.
If anyone has sent me a scan that isn\'t yet included, please don\'t be disappointed or annoyed, it\'ll go in the next revision that I\'m already working on.
If anyone reads this book and finds any mistakes or duplication of articles, please let me know because I\'m getting to the stage where I can\'t see the wood for the trees now I\'ve spent so long looking at these files.
Nice one Ian, look forward to reading through this.
Anyone else having problems downloading? I get page not found after I sign in to google docs.
Quote from: RamoNZ;716520Anyone else having problems downloading? I get page not found after I sign in to google docs.
Try this link...
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B8jAGJaws4QeOTIxZmNkMGQtY2JlMS00MzI3LTg0MWQtOWU3MTc5OGMzYzg1&hl=en&authkey=CMSdiIEI
Great thanks got it :)
Bloody Marvelous !!!
Keith...
Wanted to look at this but only got this far / and it won\'t let me go any further,
Here is the message even if I click download any way/
Sorry, we are unable to scan this file for viruses.
We are experiencing technical difficulties. Download anyway
Quote from: clive;716535Wanted to look at this but only got this far / and it won\'t let me go any further,
Here is the message even if I click download any way/
Sorry, we are unable to scan this file for viruses.
We are experiencing technical difficulties. Download anyway
Clive,
I don\'t know what\'s going on with google docs. I think it is something to do with the authorisation code at the end of the link?
I\'ve found that if you copy and paste this link into your browser, it works fine.
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B8jAGJaws4QeOTIxZmNkMGQtY2JlMS00MzI3LTg0MWQtOWU3MTc5OGMzYzg1&export=download&authkey=CMSdiIEI&hl=en
It still says that they are unable to virus scan it due to the size of the file but my AVG antivirus has checked it and states it\'s clean.
Great work! If I was a girl, I will married you :rollin
I\'ve some Italian article, if you are interested. I\'ve also the 3 version of the Gold Portfoglio, in those days I will check if somethink is present or missed, ok?
Ian that is a great read, only got to page 50 sofar, I forgot how dear they were new, even thou I got my first one new in \'81. To think I could have got a BMW 323i for less, then again I would have missed out on a lot of rotary fun .............
Quote from: A7RXY;716685Ian that is a great read, only got to page 50 sofar, I forgot how dear they were new, even thou I got my first one new in \'81. To think I could have got a BMW 323i for less, then again I would have missed out on a lot of rotary fun .............
I\'d have taken the RX7 over the Bob Marley any day. I looked at a 320i back in the 80\'s and it didn\'t even come with a radio..... everything was an option on top of the purchase price.
Extras, I think that was what put me off, and why I started buying Mazda\'s in the first place, in saying that in my series 1 it only came with a radio, and the cassette player was an extra.
Amazing document to see what it was up against when it was new !
Interesting page about koni shocks and anti-roll bars too. Wonder if they stock them still :D
Shaun
Quote from: rei99;716596Great work! If I was a girl, I will married you :rollin
I\'ve some Italian article, if you are interested. I\'ve also the 3 version of the Gold Portfoglio, in those days I will check if somethink is present or missed, ok?
Great! I would be grateful for any articles you have, they\'ll all get included!
I\'m hoping to get this book up to about 500 pages!
Ian
Well done. That will give me some great holiday reading. I will take a look through my brochures as well and see if I have any interesting ones which I will be able to scan in a couple of weeks when I get back to work.
Thanks for the effort in putting this together.
Dave