IML: twolaneblacktop@comcast.net

[K C <chromacolor2@xxxxxxxxx>]

The point of my IML post was to display the ignorance
of anyone who would dismiss an entire industry (Or
manufacturing base? region? city? citizens? Who can
tell with your broad-based stereotypes?) Not only
would it be stupid to use a minor, regionally popular
option to base such a comment, but you don't even have
your facts straight!

Lemme guess, "Detroit" bought-up all the streetcars,
put Preston Tucker out of business, and killed the guy
who invented a 200 MPG carburetor too huh? Your kind
used to be funny, but sadly your sensationalized
claims are often taken as fact by the ignorant masses.


I have no doubt you're older than me, I meet
ex-hippies all the time who don't know S-H-I-T about
engineering, economics or history. They're all angry
at "the man", but refuse to do the hard science
necessary to make an argument that amounts to anything
more than their own prejudice. Hypocrites.

This is an industry, made up of separate companies,
all with their own good ideas, AND problems. We've all
had high and low times. I can think of good Japanese
manufactures (Toyota) and bad Japanese manufactures
(Mitsubishi). I can name several "domestic" products
which out rank foreign products in quality surveys,
and the reverse is also true. I try to NEVER speak in
broad terms (Japanese, American, German, etc.) with
regard to the industry. 

Unlike you, I can enjoy cars from every time period
and manufacturer because I SEE THEM IN THE CONTEXT OF
THEIR ERA. I like my '61 because it's "space-age", my
'73 because it's over-the-top baroque, my '81 because
it was state-of-the-art, and even my '93 5th Ave
because it's given me 196,000 trouble-free miles at 20
MPG.

Good Lord man... Sorry to tell you I only read the
first and last paragraphs of this boring rant, I
hardly need you to "school" me on Chrysler's history
in the 70s/80s.

I'd love to here your theories on "why" we are so
backwards in Detroit, as I have a feeling this would
explain what kind of person you really are.


--- "Wm. R. Ulman" <twolaneblacktop@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Gee Carmine, Sorry your so mad at the fact the '70's
> & '80's are some of the
> worst years of
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