Interesting!  It reminds me of this guy with a little moustache who
about 25 years before that had this idea of a standard people's car
you could pre-pay for with savings stamps.  Then there was something
about misappropriation of funds for this alleged war effort and before
you knew it they were producing these 'bucket cars'.  Details are a
little foggy, though, but I have a strange feeling it's all somehow
connected to me sitting here, half asleep, typing near nonsense to a
bunch of great folks on a VW Vanagon list.

On 4/17/09, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> At 06:05 PM 4/17/2009, joel walker wrote:
>>suppose, just suppose, that instead of giving money to the car
>>companies, the government just reimbursed them as they GAVE their
>>inventory away.
>>
>>An Alternate Ecomonic Bailout Stimulus Package Deal :)
>>(bailout to me has always been what you do with a parachute when the
>>plane is on fire or the wings are falling off. stimulus? well, the
>>less said, the better).
>
> Or when the boat is full, or when your lowlife brother is in jail...
>
> Many years ago ('60s), John Campbell, the then editor of Analog
> Science Fiction magazine, proposed in an editorial that the
> government specify and contract for a no-frills GI-standard
> automobile, and issue one to every enlisted bod in the military and
> the new ones as they entered.  Maybe officers too, I forget.  He
> thought various good things would come of it, mainly IIRC that
> practically nobody would be unable to afford a vehicle because of
> standardization savings on the initial vehicle cost and the
> development of an inexpensive used market as military folks bought
> cars they liked better when they could afford to.
>
>
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> '89 Po' White Star "Scamp"
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