On Tue Apr-17-2012 08:26, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    RW> 14 Apr 12 09:04, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    RN>> I can't say I've ever driven one of those, but I did drive a Dodge   
    RN>> pickup truck back then and it was very reliable.  Between then and   
    RN>> the Lee Iacoca era, they were kind of trashy.   
      
    RW>> Not to mention junk engine engineering. What do you hear about the   
    RW>> Mopar reliability of their 'polysphere' combustion chambered   
    RW>> engines these days. Absolutely nothing, as they died along with the   
    RW>> 50s and humongous fins...   
      
    RN> Remember when Chrysler had the 5-year or 50,000 mile warranty on the   
    RN> drive train?   
      
    RW> No...after my excursion into new car buying in 1968, I was no   
    RW> longer intested in Chrysler products. I gave them plenty of   
    RW> opportunity too. I looked at the Charger, Dart, Plymouth Barracuda   
    RW> and Roadrunnner before I gave up on that crap. I also looked at GM   
    RW> and Ford products to give each a chance to sway me into buying. GM   
    RW> stood above all of them. I was very tempted by the GTO and Buick GS   
    RW> models, but bought a Camaro RS/SS 396 instead.   
      
   I saw a Charger in a movie a few years ago and it looked and sounded good.  I   
   had no difficulty identifying it because of the bumble bee stripe on the rear   
   end.  Sometime later on, I saw one for sale for $125k.   
      
    RN> I was still working at a Chevy dealer and remember thinking that   
    RN> they'll go broke fast with such a warranty.   
      
    RW> Which they did, eventually.   
      
    RN> That was secondary to the prices being asked for ANY new car.   
      
    RW> The above warranty was also based on 1500 hours of operation, which   
    RW> could be very hard to prove or disprove.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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