Not your average cutaway drawing of the VW Rabbit engine and the illustrator is not R. Crumb. This was an illustration Peter Aschwanden did for the book How to Keep Your Volkswagen Rabbit Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot. by Richard Sealey. It followed an earlier book by John Muir called How to Keep your Volkswagen Alive with technical drawings done in the same 60's counterculture style. His drawings are accurate but not technical in nature, they really make mechanical work seem less intimidating. Anyone in the sixties or seventies trying to keep his VW running would have felt completely at home with the style. More here. |
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Far out, you could do your engine without, like, killing the buzz...
I have several editions of Muir's book. Peter Aschwanden, in the earliest printings, went by the pen name Juniperus Scopulorum. It's a rare old person who did not refer to the Idiot Guide when rebuilding their first VW engine. The book holds up well, and is a solid read even without an ACVW in one's life.
An R Crumb fan? Mr. Natural, The Checker demon, I’m an old fan, have a limited collection
Crumb came to mind right away.
There was a how to keep your Honda Civic alive too. Same demographic?
Yes, different author but same illustrator. https://www.amazon.ca/How-Keep-Your-Honda-Alive/dp/0912528257
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