An essential document of the counterculture era, John Muir’s How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive is still the best technical manual ever written. Muir sets the tone up front — “Nobody knows it all!” — and then launches into in-depth descriptions of every aspect of every air-cooled Volkswagen model produced. The clear, thorough and accurate instructions are delivered in a conversational tone that gives anyone with even the most tenuous interest in auto mechanics confidence. Everything is brought to life by Peter Aschwanden’s witty pen and ink illustrations. First published in 1969, the spiral-bound manual was continued in many, many editions after Muir’s death in 1977.