<VV> Foreign tin

[jvhroberts at aol.com]

 Oh well, so much for a free market economy, open competition, etc?

 

John Roberts
 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Young <gyoungwolf at earthlink.net>
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent: Sun, May 30, 2010 10:06 pm
Subject: <VV> Foreign tin


While this seemed like banter for another forum, it also seems that it has 
lasted long enough unscathed from those who monitor such things for me to chime 
in. Whether to buy something from Japan has always been an easy decision for me 
and all my family members as my father's life was shortened due to the sneaky 
unprovoked cowardly Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Our biggest family debates 
are comparing Ford and GM as to which has the fewest foreign parts. I think 
every Japanese car should come with a permanent yellow bumper sticker that says 
something like "Pearl Harbor Didn't Really Happen" or "The Union Label Ain't All 
It's Cracked Up To Be" or "Putting the American Autoworker Out of Business." I 
am sure that people who drive one have probably never seen the USS Arizona 
monument, or they have a very short memory, or don't mind supporting the 
children and grandchildren of those who essentially murdered all our soldiers 
that day (I'm not really concerned about those who say
  we should forgive and forget, and I don't drive German cars either, although I 
am amazed at how many Jews do).  I suspect they will be okay driving something 
from the Middle East some day after 9/11 has faded from their memory and the 
Chinese build factories there with our debt payments. As for Japanese quality, 
it WAS essentially due to training from an American quality expert, but now that 
he has passed, they have started to slip back to their cost cutting strategies 
that bring back memories of the days when folks used to laugh at the made in 
Japan labels. They didn't care then and they don't care now because there know 
there are enough people dumb enough to think everything is about how cheap they 
can get something. I have a '94 Lumina with 229K, a '95 Impala with 120K and 
both have been very reliable. And while I'm not sure when Toyotas came on the 
scene (70's?), I suspect it is not much easier to find parts for those originals 
than for our Corvairs of an even older vin
 tage. FWIW, bigger is better and it should definitely be against the law for a 
Japanese dealership to have a Memorial Day Sale.
Grant

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