On Thu Apr-12-2012 06:24, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    RW> 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?   
      
    RW> Tall Mast sailing vessel.   
      
   The Ni¤a, the Pinta or the Santa Maria?  (-:  Nay, those hood ornaments were   
   schooners.   
      
    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.   
      
    RW> They were just as good back in the 30s...as were the Plymouths and   
    RW> Dodges with the Spitfire/Continental engines.   
      
   I liked the DeSoto cabs we had in N.O., but that '58 Plymouth I had was very   
   nice.  It's the '58 Plymouth and '57 Bel Air I wish I still had.   
      
    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.   
      
    RW> Late 60s, maybe. It was when they began to put emissions devices on   
    RW> 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.   
      
    RW> I had friends who bought some of that Japanese crap. Buying parts   
    RW> to repair them gave those people fits of bankruptcy...when you   
    RW> could buy an alternator for a GM/Ford/Mopar for less than $20, it   
    RW> cost over 6x that for a nipponese POS that didn't last any longer   
    RW> than the original...sometimes even less. Then there was the Toyota   
    RW> 125,000 mile 'drive train' warranties. Most of them didn't make it   
    RW> to 50k when they had to replace clutches...   
      
   I told my kids if they ever bought a Japanese car I'd disown them, but you   
   know how it is when you tell your kids NOT to do something.  (-:   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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