[DeTomaso] One-owner cars

[wkooiman at earthlink.net]

Where I went to school, "coon" was just as racist as the n-word.

And we didn't have many racial issues.  I've seen much worse in other parts of the country.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Lewis <lotus0005 at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 20, 2011 8:58 AM
>To: detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] One-owner cars
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>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!)
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>> 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
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>> << 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
>> 
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>> -----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
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>> 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?"
>> 
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>> -----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
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>> 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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