David's story about Toyotas in Mexico reminds me of a trip to
Purificación I was on with Peter Sprouse, probably in the '80s or '90s.
There were several 4WD Toyota pick ups and one other non-Toyota vehicle.
We went over some pretty rough roads, and the only vehicle that did not
make it was the Chevy/Ford/whatever. I always felt pretty invincible in
my Toyota.
Mark Minton
mmin...@caver.net
On 2019-03-09 20:34, David wrote:
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Anyways, the most memorable part of the trip ( for me only ) was that
my entire 26 year old life I had been thoroughly brainwashed that
Ford's were the best and imports, especially Toyotas were junk. [
Sidenote: My biological father was a card-carrying 40 year member of
American Automobile Workers Union, although he was a career employee
of Bell Helicopter. And my grandpa was a WW2 Veteran, and as anti-Jap
as one could be. And my step-father thoroughly instilled in me that
companies outside the USA, illegally cloned all American technology. ]
Back to the Bill part.
Bill taught me on that trip how wrong I had been taught. The 4Runner
could go places the Bronco could not, and was 10 times more reliable
than the Bronco.
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