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
>