Hi Buster,
Are you a famous person? You seem to know alot of famous people.
Mike C
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From <b-evans at earthlink.net>
To: "Ron Soave" <soavero@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Paul Asgeirsson" <pasgeirsson@worldnet.att.net>; "Spridgets"
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: GM going down, WITH LEC content
> Ron Soave wrote:
>
>>... the Buy American Act. The intent of the act is to increase U.S.
>>manufacturing.
> We had a neighbor who worked for an American company that made emissions
> testing equipment that we shall call "Company X". Tim used to laugh his
> head off about assembling the piece of "crap" (his words).
>
> At the same time, we had a friend in England who was the chief test
> engineer for Lotus. He was continually tearing his hair out and
> complaining to me (as if I could do anything about it) that in order to
> export cars to the United States, he was required by American law to use
> the specific equipment that Tim made. John said that the equipment was
> "crap" (HIS words, too), unreliable, and worthless. He could, he told me,
> buy a more expensive piece of equipment from Japan that was better by a
> factor of 10.
>
> (Many people have company cars...you know, Chevrolets, Buicks, etc. John
> had a company car, too. Always a new Lotus Espirit V8. He loved to rub
> it in that "his" car got 32 mpg, with air conditioning on, multi-disc CD,
> lower emissions than any American-made car, and all the other whistles and
> bells! But it could not be sent to the U.S. because it had not been
> tested on the equipment built by Tim and Comapny X. Now, what fun it was
> to drive with HIM on the narrow English rural roads.)
>
> Buster Evans
>
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