I'm amazed it came out as well as it did considering I don't know what a mb is !!

I think I have some other bits of info to add -- will try later.

David - what info do you actually need ?

Shop Manuals and Owner's manuals-attn: Kevin
 

I have mostly shop manuals, and it is amazing how much is missing at times. An excellent example is the near 650-page shop manual from Chrysler, and an important item I needed information on could not be sourced, even through the various enthusiast sites, so I felt I had to buy the manual. Sure enough, no info there either. Many problems come up due to running changes in the cars, even several times in a single model year. The specialist, like Bristol, is at the mercy of the vendors. Having owned many of the cars you listed, I have learned that close observation and trusted friends in the machine shop business goes a long way toward dealing with older cars. As for Bristol, when you make only 40 cars in a good year, it is really hard to justify much beyond an owner's manual.

Shop manuals and other good sources
 

I have found that perhaps the most practical manuals are put out by Haynes, and they have offered their books on a wide variety of cars. They take a car completely apart and re-asemble for great pictures and step by step assemble-disassembly procedures along with good specs. Of course, before they put a book together, the make has to have sufficient production figures to justify the effort. Just a thought in case some menber, like myself, tinker with many makes.

-------- Wtf !

Appropriateness
 

I son't think abreviations like wtf belong on a site like this.

Well ," what thorough frustration " is what this manual business can be !

Service manuals, shop manuals and owner's manuals
 

About 90% of what needs to be done to any car is best taken care of by the best and most experienced mechanic on that marque you can locate. Best to pay the expert than break more things on your own. That gets expensive. I have lived too long, and much of that time was taken up learning my limitations. I now know them. Good luck finding the mechanic you can trust.

Don't believe in limitations !

Be British and never give in until the job is done :-)

Real help is there if we ask -- or we can give 10 % !

Fixing things on our own, at our peril...
 

I hear that, and am half Brittish and half German. I don't give in and I am stubborn as Hell. I have managed to get people to do things for me and make the things that don't exist. Most times, I have to draw them a picture or establish dimensions, but I get what I want. Why do you suppose that is? Gad, I'm American on top of all this! Little wonder.

Full of s urprises I guess !