Warning! NVC !

Many years ago, when my car (maybe a vanagon?) at the time was in the shop,
I had to rent a car.  The closest and most convenient place to me was a
place called "Rent-A-Wreck", which rented older cars.  The only car they had
available at the time for me was a white Matador.  I drove off to work and
several hours later got a frantic call from them saying "we have to get that
car back, we see in the records that the brakes don't work on it" !  I kept
it until after work when I returned it.

That car was aptly named, "Murderer".  Truly a death trap and possibly the
ugliest car ever produced.

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Evan Mac Donald <evanm@att.net> wrote:

> Ah, no, the worst would be worse than that. AMC, long ago and far away, had
> a model called the "Matador". They could not figure out why the car did not
> sell in Spanish-speaking territories. Until someone who actually SPOKE
> Spanish clued them in that "Matador" meant "murderer"...
>
> --
> Alan Felder
> Austin TX
> 82 Diesel Westy
>