Re: IML: Respect for "foreigners"

[Paul Volkmann <blackplumcoupe@xxxxxxxxx>]

To those people outside the US
Congratulations on your purchase of whatever wonderful
cars you have and I hope you enjoy them to the
fullest.

It's not the owners of these cars that are at fault at
all, it is the greedy exporters/importers that did any
harm that may have been done.

Paul
'65 Purple Coupe


--- Hugh & Therese <hugtrees@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My concern about this discussion is that
> Imperialists outside of the USA may 
> feel as though they are being slighted.  However
> these cars got there, the 
> people doing the exporting knew there was a demand
> for these wonderful 
> pieces of Americana overseas.  They also knew that
> at the same time there 
> was very little respect for them here in the USA.
> 
> I am not discounting Tony L's own experience with
> some of these people. 
> Having your car stolen is obviously going to
> radically alter your opinion. 
> I, too, have experienced intensely rude comments
> about my car.  A common one 
> is, "What a waste of a Hemi."  One of the worst was
> an unsolicited offer of, 
> "I'll give you $2,000.00 for the engine, but only
> $1,000.00 if I have to 
> take the whole car."  A demolition derbyist once
> offered me way more than 
> the car, 58 4 door hardtop, is worth, and rushed to
> explain his rationale: 
> He would strip the car and sell the parts to defray
> his upfront costs then 
> "race" the car to a presumed win and then sell the
> engine, transmission and 
> whatever else was left.  (I think of this guy when I
> see a whole cars worth 
> of good parts show up on e-bay.)
> 
> I think the people who buy and enjoy an Imperial
> outside the USA are to be 
> congratulated.  It's hard enough to get parts here,
> never mind having to 
> scour the planet for them.  I am not suggesting that
> anyone has insulted 
> these fine people, only that this discussion has put
> them in a bad light 
> which I don't think they deserve.  I have found,
> after many years of 
> looking, places where I can get parts for my car.  I
> can drive to these 
> places and inspect the quality of the parts I am
> getting.  I suspect this is 
> not possible in, say, Sweden.  These folks have to
> have more enthusiasm than 
> those of us in the USA to keep going and a lot more
> faith, too, that they 
> are not being ripped off with shoddy goods or no
> goods at all after they 
> have laid out their money.
> 
> I have had some good conversations with 58 owners in
> Australia, Japan, 
> France and Switzerland.  I think this list is
> infinitely better off with 
> their participation.
> 
> Hugh 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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