The RX7 1st gen E-book - A collection of road tests etc

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The RX7 1st gen E-book - A collection of road tests etc

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I’ve always found the lack of good reading material on these cars frustrating….. just the odd magazine article and book here and there.
I therefore decided to put one together myself and here it is… the 1st edition!

It’s a collection of magazine articles, road tests, buyers guides, sales brochures, technical guides, engine, handling and bodywork mods going back over the last 31 years.




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I haven’t done it for profit, just for myself and other 1st gen enthusiasts to enjoy and you can download it for free here!

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B8jAGJ ... y=CMSdiIEI

This 1st edition is 344 pages of RX7 heaven! It’s a work in progress, is still expanding but hey, it’s a start! If anyone has got any articles, brochures, road tests etc etc that aren't in the E-book so far, please send me some scans if you can and I'll add them into the book. th:

Hope you enjoy it.

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It's now been 4 years since this first edition of the E-book was published and an update is well over due.
For the next month or so I'll be collecting additional content before adding it to the e-book. If anyone has got any road tests, sales brochures or other 1st gen articles they would like to have included, could they please scan them and send them to:

cybertech at sky dot com

and I'll add them in. I'll need the scans in either jpg or pdf format.

cheers,
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no one got anything to contribute? :(

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You must have done too good a job in the first place !
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I've got loads but I dunno how to do like PDFs and stuff :oops: I think I can just about manage to find a scanner; does it automatically convert them to the format you want?

I'm not great on puters, in case it wasn't obvious :oops:
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yes, it should scan them to either a picture file (jpg) or a pdf.... either is fine... I can then convert to pdf this end.

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Cool, I'll borrow the missus' scanner thing and have a go then
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Lucky wrote:Cool, I'll borrow the missus' scanner thing and have a go then

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Just noticed this ebook... Hoping for a quiet night at work to read it :)

I posted a few bits up in another thread... Is that of any use? No idea how I would scan it without a scanner though


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Post by Casey »

Wow, I missed this completely until now :shock:

Just downloaded it, started to flick through and got thoroughly absorbed into reading a few items along the way. Msut stop now as I have oother things I need to do! Have left it on my "desktop" to read later :D

A great collection of articles there, well done Ian W(p
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