This proves that poos is a moron and does not know what he is talking about. Those were the best vehicle years. The under hood 450 cat is the best thing ever. I am working on a plan to retrofit that into older and newer cars.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > I wrenched heavily at this time and saw the worst of the pollution > controlled, poorly built American iron. It was gawdawful stuff and you could > tell the engineers were flying by the seats of their pants. > > 1974-5 were probably the worst years, in my opinion. Just horrible in so many > ways. > > Dan > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> I feel like the American car builders could have suffered through the >> malaise era if build quality had been decent but considering the truly awful >> build quality of the time its no surprise people looked to the east.Also >> considering what crappy cars asia was producing if the Americans had kept >> their build quality high the asian makers would have never gotten a >> foothold.My in-laws have a Ford Fusion that is an excellent car, probably >> the best made vehicle they've ever had and at least as good as any Toyota >> but the resale value pales when next to a Camry. >> -Curt >> From: Curly McLain via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Cc: Curly McLain <126die...@gmail.com> >> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 8:37 AM >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes? >> >> It was the beginning of the end for merkun iron too. 1968 cars had >> rudimentary smog crap hung on em. By 1974, merkun iron was fully >> smothered and were total crap. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
