Reminds me of a discussion with my boss over 20 years ago, him telling me
he would never buy a Japanese car as he looked at my roadster. Nope, he
said buy American, as he patted his wife's small Ford pickup. Then I
reminded him that Toyo Kogyo (Mazda) made it under license to Ford. And
showed him the ID plate from Japan. :> At that time, Isuzu made small
vehicles for Chevy, Mazda for Ford, and Mitsubishi for Chrysler. And
slapped American names on them.
My grandfather at one time worked under contract with the French on
Mitsubishi fighter planes before WWII in Japan. French designs went into
Japanese planes, similar as to how British designs were going into Japanese
cars after WWII. Then later Japanese know-how was going into American cars.
So history is not a good reason for buying any particular car. Technology
is getting traded around and has been for millenia.
Oh, my Dad's cemetery headstone is inscribed with "WWII" and "Korea". Others
have seen it and asked me what's Korea.
Fred - So.SF
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>Subject: Re: D-Day
>Author: Gary McCormick <svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com>
>Date: 6/8/2000 2:29 PM
>
>Then I guess July 4th is a good reason for us not to own British
>cars...
>
>Gary McCormick
>San Jose, CA
>
>Robin Krause wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure it's just the youngsters that have forgotten about
>D-Day. . . >
>> I was at Sears in my Roadster waiting for a package pick-up (yes, it
>was a > small package). The 75+ year-old man next to me looked at my
>car and said > he'd never own one. His reason was,"Yeah, I'm a
>December 7th."
>> It only took me a few seconds to notice he was leaning on the front
>grill of > his Mercedes. . .???
>>
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