who needs chilton
I was leaving Austin coffeeshop The Green Muse last night when I saw this guy pecking at this PowerBook on top of his Jeep. It was pretty clear that he was downloading information about working on the vehicle. After I asked if I could snap a picture, I asked, “Who needs Chilton, when you’ve got the Interweb?” I’m not sure if he got my reference to the line of auto service manuals, but he said that, yes, he had downloaded the Jeep service manual. “It’s got like 1,400 pages here!” he told me. I keep the Chilton manual for my pickup behind the bench seat, but I imagine tracking down the manufacturer’s documentation online would work in a pinch.
