John Haynes Obituary (Read 75 times)

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Reproduced in full from Classic Car Weekly (13 Feb)

John H Haynes OBE, creator of the Haynes manual, passed away recently after a short illness, aged 80. Having produced his first instruction book (for converting an Austin 7 into a '750 Special) as a schoolboy,the first Haynes manual, intended for home mechanics, appeared in 1966 for Austin Healy-Sprite owners - and was a runaway hit. 200 million Haynes manual sales, an interntional motor museum and an OBE to publishing later, John is survived by his wife Annette, brother David and sister Mary, his two sons; J and Chris and his grandchildren; Augusta, Chrissie, Edward, Freya and Nicholas.

I think we all owe this man a great debt for helping to keep our classics on the road! Please feel free to add your comments.
Rest in peace.

Leigh (Area rep)

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Thank you Leigh. As you say, we all know about (John) Haynes because of the manuals, and owe him a debt as we all refer to them to keep our cars on the road. They are also famous because of the cutaway pictures /diagrams of the complete car that they contained.
I volunteered at the museum in Sparkford for over a year until 4 years ago, and was there at the grand reopening with the extension etc. JH used to come in most days to have lunch. He was always a quiet (maybe shy) gent, drove a silver Lexus SC430 (I think it was) daily, although many of the museum exhibits had been his own.
Ed