Wayne Garth inquired in 210513 MMDigest, "What happened to Ampico 'A'
Restoration Guide by Paul Manganaro. I cannot find Paul's website and the
links on John Tuttle's website lead to constant '404' error messages."
The information, in what appears to be its complete, original form,
is still available courtesy of the "Wayback Machine" (or the Internet
Archive if you prefer less dramatic names). It's not a one-step process,
so here goes:
1) Go to https://archive.org/
2) Into the search box at the top of the page put Paul Manganaro's old
website, antiquemechanicalrestorations.com
< http://http:/antiquemechanicalrestorations.com/ >
3) The bar graph on the results page will show how many times the page
was archived and when.
4) Highlighting any year on the bar graph causes a calendar with
highlighted dates to appear below the graph. You can then choose
a highlighted date to get the link to what the archive saved.
What is saved this way does vary widely, so what you want from the past
may or may not exist in any given archive, or at all. In this case,
a 2019 version lacked all of the images. Randomly choosing a March 2016
version got me to a version that seems to have all of the information,
but I've never restored an Ampico! The links below will take you to the
first of several pages in the archive that discuss the process:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160324102440/http://antiquemechanicalrestorations.com/1_About_the_Author.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20160324100404/http://antiquemechanicalrestorations.com/Sitemap.html
As Robbie determined that Paul Manganaro is now semi-retired, perhaps
someone would like to archive his information on either the MMD or AMICA
sites? The Wayback Machine is a somewhat less than efficient source for
information, but it's better than doing without! A quick test did let me
print one of the sections of the Ampico rebuild as a pdf, but getting
the info straight from Mr. Manganaro might be more efficient.
Monica Jones
Simi Valley, California
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