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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:32:33 -0800
Reply-To:     levi hawkins <b1levi@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         levi hawkins <b1levi@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Germany VW war
In-Reply-To:  <c3f.62c98ae5.3867ca34@aol.com>
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I'd suspect that if either a British or American company had taken over, it wouldn't have amounted to much, since those companies would have just tooled up to produce British of American cars.

--- On Sat, 12/26/09, JordanVw@AOL.COM <JordanVw@AOL.COM> wrote:

From: JordanVw@AOL.COM <JordanVw@AOL.COM> Subject: Re: Germany VW war To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Date: Saturday, December 26, 2009, 1:21 PM

In a message dated 12/26/09 3:17:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, berniej@GMAIL.COM writes:

> VW plant was also offered to British who had good laugh joking that > there was nothing there that would ever amount to much. > > Bernie >

actually, it was offered to Henry Ford...  who responded "what they got there isn't worth a damn"   (those were his exact words)

he later ate his words, im sure, as the millionth Beetle rolled off the assembly line in the late 60's, surpassing production of the Model T..... :)

chris


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