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Are there electronic copies of the AIM manuals available? I've only seen hard copies. Looking for a few years...
thanks
Yes, the 1963 - 1967 AIMs Disk, the Overhaul Chassis Service manuals (for Chevy, Chevelle, Chevy II and Corvette) Disk, the 1953 to 1975 Corvette Chassis and body parts catalog Disk.
Check on Ebay they run about $30 each (They are non-returnable). I have all of the disks. If you need a section or two I could email it to you.
How's the quality of the electronic versions? The hard copy version I have looks like it was photocopied from a photocopy on a 30 year old Xerox.
Yup, they are all like that ... just different versions. Copies of copies of copies. And the PDF versions are just scanned versions of one of those copies. The nice thing about the e-copy is its searchable ... just like any other PDF file. Bill
Last edited by NightshiftHD; May 11, 2018 at 09:28 AM.
I bought one of the Dave Graham 1963-1967 AIM CD’s (.pdf) and to be polite, the quality of most images suck. A large number of pages or parts of the pages are unreadable. It surprised me they continue to be sold – read some of the reviews.
The print editions vary in quality but I found the Corvette Central '67 edition to be pretty good. I have read the quality of the NCRS versions (when they have them in stock) are also pretty good.
I just bought my AIM from ncrs and I think the quality is good for how ever many times they were copied. Here are two random examples. I bought the book and not the dvd.
Last edited by elwood13; May 12, 2018 at 02:38 PM.
The pages below are from the CD version. In fairness, all pages aren't that bad, but there are just too many that really can't be read. Like I said, I don't know how they can continue to sell the CD?
It looks like someone put a crappy copy in an automatic scanner, got even crappier images, and then no one proofed it.
Last edited by Mike67nv; May 12, 2018 at 05:27 PM.
The CD version I got from Wilcox is as good as the paper version examples posted above. I print pages to take with me into the garage and can reprint them after I've covered them in grease.
The CD version I got from Wilcox is as good as the paper version examples posted above. I print pages to take with me into the garage and can reprint them after I've covered them in grease.
One reason is that our manuals were made from very old copies of the manuals and they are OCR'd which means you can search them with key "simple" one word searches. We originally produced these and then sold the rights to CA about 10 years ago.
Sadly when these generic copies came out in multiple versions for one cd... CA dropped us as the supplier because you could get 63-67 in one cd, but our version to me is still the best.
