[DeTomaso] One-owner cars

[Bill Lewis]

Larry, and all - I hesitate to put this on (you never know who you will offend), but an example of "crazyness in America": a friend of mine teaches school and they were discussing animals, and the teacher mentioned something about coons (that's what we country folks call them: coons, possums, etc.), and she was called into a meeting with the principal, and a student and his parents.  The reason: the student was black and the word "coon" offended him, and he wanted an apology.  (Michael, is there a documentary here!)



> From: larry at ohiotimecorp.com
> To: tonydigi at optonline.net; JDeRyke at aol.com; michaelsavga at gmail.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:35:06 -0400
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] One-owner cars
> 
> << The universal question was "a what?">>
> 
> Around 78-79 I bought a new (3,000 miles)Subaru AWD wagon (per-Forester)
> with a very light hit on the RF fender for $600.
> 
> No one knew what it was...
> 
> Larry (racoons ate the car and killed it) - Cleveland
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
> Behalf Of Tony DiGiovanna
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 6:15 PM
> To: JDeRyke at aol.com; michaelsavga at gmail.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] One-owner cars
> 
> Another thing to consider:  Ford may have considered the import/exotic
> Pantera a success risk of sorts (rightly so) and did not want to risk
> associating it directly with their primary brand:  Ford.  So they may have
> steered it to L-M.  You have to remember how foreign "Foreign Cars" were in
> America back then.  I remember when my cousin bought an Audi and my
> Brother-in-Law a Honda.  The universal question was "a what?"
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
> Behalf Of JDeRyke at aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:24 PM
> To: michaelsavga at gmail.com
> Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] One-owner cars
> 
> In a message dated 10/18/11 7:57:48 AM, michaelsavga at gmail.com writes:
> snip.......
> > Selling these through LM dealerships instead of Ford ( who had 
> > salespeople used to selling Shelbys, Cobras, HiPo Mustangs, etc.) was
> perhaps the 
> > leading reason that sales were no more than they were, they simply did not
> 
> > know how to sell them and attracted the wrong demographic....
> > 
> > 
> MIchael, Ford's rationale was, L-M was selling the Capri (first made in 
> Germany, then in England) so Ford thought L-M knew something about the
> foreign 
> car marketplace. That wasn't the only bad miscalculation FOMOCO made re the 
> Pantera.... J DeRyke
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