Are old shop repair manuals worth anything?

I just inherited many many boxes of old repair manuals, from about the 1960's through 1990's. All very unorganized, but everything from various cars and trucks, to forklifts, to specific systems such as hydraulics, air brakes, etc.



The majority of them seem like official shop manuals (rather than the typical consumer haynes and chilton manuals), however they are not organized at all, and many seem very specific like "transmission systems on 71-73 ford F350".



Nowadays I know everything is all on computers, even the shops seem to have their manuals on computer, so do these have any value at all? Perhaps to a collector or something, or are they just recycle bin material?Are old shop repair manuals worth anything?
You may very well have a gold mine. A lot of those old manuals aren't available anymore, be it online, on disc or in hard copy. If you can find the market that is out there, somebody somewhere needs that information. I would suggest going through them and making a list of what you have and maybe offer them on amazon or craigslist or ebay. Classic car enthusiast may pay big money for an original shop manual for a 67 el camino electrical system. Ya never know.Are old shop repair manuals worth anything?
Wow, interesting inheritance. Old official shop manuals are very important. You would be surprised at how much is NOT on the internet, many things are still in hard copy, libraries etc. Many old cars or mechanical devices are not very common, so the demand to motivate the conversion of a manual into digital form is non-existent. That means that the only resource to understand and maintain/fix, these old devices is in those hard copy manuals.

Somebody can be in great need of those, so put them on the international market (like ebay, kijiji...) you"ll help them out and can get a few bucks ...