12 Apr 12 06:46, Roger Nelson wrote to TOM WALKER:   
      
    RN> On Wed Apr-11-2012 08:06, TOM WALKER (1:123/140) wrote to ROGER   
    RN> NELSON:   
      
    RN>> On Mon Apr-09-2012 07:17, TOM WALKER (1:123/140) wrote to ROGER   
    RN>> NELSON:   
      
    RN>> TW> They are not CC Cars(Chrysler Crap) for no good reason.  :-) ---   
      
    RN>> I had a 1958 Plymouth that I really liked, but that was long ago   
    RN>> when cars could be identified by sight.  That's no longer the case.   
      
    TW>> I had a 1949 Yellow Plymouth Convertable that was a Great Car.   
      
    RN> Didn't that one have a ship on the hood?   
      
   Tall Mast sailing vessel.   
      
    TW>> But that was in the day when they did produce good cars.   
      
    RN> Yes, they did.  Roy may not agree with this, but Dodge had a good   
    RN> truck back in the Forties and Fifties.  I drove one a lot back then.   
      
   They were just as good back in the 30s...as were the Plymouths and Dodges   
   with the Spitfire/Continental engines.   
      
    TW>> I think the downhill slide began in the 60's not only for Chyrlser   
    TW>> btu for most of the rest of the Amercian built cars.   
      
    RN> Yesý.   
      
   Late 60s, maybe. It was when they began to put emissions devices on them   
   that they went down hill.   
      
    TW>> OR perhaps the Higher Quality of some of the Japanese Cars made   
    TW>> them look bad.   
      
    RN> The Jap cars were properly fitted and aligned compared to American   
    RN> cars. The biggest problem I experienced, and this came about when I   
    RN> managed a body shop for a Mazda dealer in Metairie (on the outskirts   
    RN> of New Orleans), was that Mazda had no standard paint formula.  Even   
    RN> the touch-up bottles of paint that came with every new Mazda back   
    RN> then didn't match the exterior color, as unbelievable as that may   
    RN> seem.   
      
   I had friends who bought some of that Japanese crap. Buying parts to   
   repair them gave those people fits of bankruptcy...when you could buy an   
   alternator for a GM/Ford/Mopar for less than $20, it cost over 6x that for   
   a nipponese POS that didn't last any longer than the original...sometimes   
   even less. Then there was the Toyota 125,000 mile 'drive train'   
   warranties. Most of them didn't make it to 50k when they had to replace   
   clutches...   
      
      
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