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Date:         Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:42:27 -0500
Reply-To:     Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
Subject:      Re: VW quality & Mercedes FI & Japanese FI - was - Massive
              Maintenance and cost
Comments: To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <p2j4d1b79351004161445v183424cerd4df093f26bf73c5@mail.gmail.com>
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British cars are the ultimate "challenge".

BTW, Jags are good cars from 87 on - They were still loaded with lucas parts and were still Jag engineering but by 1987 Ford owned them long enough force the suppliers to manufacture quality parts.

Tom www.kegkits.com

-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of Jim Felder Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 4:45 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: VW quality & Mercedes FI & Japanese FI - was - Massive Maintenance and cost

British cars should not be included in this discussion. I mean, we're using words like QUALITY here. I was a British car enthusiast for many years. I've had about all of 'em and worked on the rest. They are (were) made with hate. When I "rediscovered" VWs (I always was a bus junkie) I wondered why I ever fooled with those Lucas-ridden things.

Maybe it was the axle that broke on an Austin Healy while it was sitting in the driveway the day after I bought it. Maybe it was the TR4 distributor that flew apart in the middle of a Georgia forest with Dr. Werner Von Braun's daughter in the passenger seat in the middle of the night on the way to Atlanta. Maybe it was the Jaguar R&P gears that turned to slag just cruising down the road. Maybe it was the unadjustable smogged triple Strombergs. Maybe it was having my 80 year old grandmother beat the panel behind the seat of a Sprite with a Coke bottle constantly so that the fuel pump would get us the 30 miles back to Birmingham...

Don't get me started : 0

Jim

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:03 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > At 01:06 PM 4/16/2010, Roland wrote: >> >> He told my father to never buy a Mercedes, they were junk, you will >> spend twice the purchase price in repairs. > > That's not so bad really...Jaguar enthusiasts used to import mechanics > from England and set them up in comfort... > > :) > d >


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