The most amazing car I ever owned was a 1950 DeSoto with the semi-automatic transmission. It had a clutch but was impossible to stall when stopping using brake only (break, if you prefer). I bought TWO cars in sequential years in Boston and Minneapolis, for a grand total of $100 and sold them for a grand total of $25 ($15, $10) one year later. The demise of this marque should not be mourned.
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________ 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
