No no no! I was a TRASH picker, not a NIT picker!
Bill Blue wrote:
> This is a pick on the minor nit: I believe his name was Ransome (not
> Raymond) and he never produced Olds for GM. He made his own car (the curved
> dash Olds), which was bought out by Billy Durant (made the Buick). Durant
> called the resulting company General Motors. Olds then went on to produce
> the REO cars and trucks.
> Bill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
> To: "Jarrid Gross" <JGross@econolite.com>
> Cc: <bmounce@bellatlantic.net>; "Ben Mies" <bmtbm1@mindspring.com>;
> <alpines@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:02 PM
> Subject: RE: Making an Alpine handle and gearing
>
> > >Years ago in college I worked collecting trash (long before
> > >recycling: I was a 'trash man'). I remember the Diamond Rio I drove.
> >
> > A VERY minor nit. This would have been a Diamond-REO, REO standing for
> the
> > company's founder, Raymond E Olds, who also produced the "Oldsmobile" line
> > for General Motors. GM announced six months ago that Oldsmobile would be
> > shut down in a couple of years, a rather sad ending to a long-term
> enterprise.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315
> > Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr`s fir!
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