14 Apr 12 09:41, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    RN>>> TW> They are not CC Cars(Chrysler Crap) for no good reason.  :-)   
    RN>>> ---   
      
    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.   
      
    RN> The Ni¤a, the Pinta or the Santa Maria?  (-:   
      
   The original Plymouth hood ornament was a model of the Mayflower.   
      
    RN>   Nay, those hood ornaments were schooners.   
      
   It was a Dutch cargo fluyt, more like an early Galleon than a Schooner.   
      
    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.   
      
    RN> I liked the DeSoto cabs we had in N.O., but that '58 Plymouth I had   
    RN> was very nice.  It's the '58 Plymouth and '57 Bel Air I wish I still   
    RN> had.   
      
   When my brother came home from a tour in the Army, he bought a 56   
   Dodge...it was a nice looking car, but couldn't hold a candle to my 55   
   Chevy...   
      
    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...   
      
    RN> I told my kids if they ever bought a Japanese car I'd disown them,   
    RN> but you know how it is when you tell your kids NOT to do something.   
    RN> (-:   
      
   My dad told me that too, but he also included Europeon made cars. Later he   
   added that if you MUST buy Europeon, buy German made only.   
      
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