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In a message dated 7/21/2005 9:16:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
(email redacted) writes:

Jerry,
This is a sure sign of impending Alzheimers. Those were the worst of the
bunch.



Nah, the BIG Audis with inboard brakes had problems. I had a Fox, the
little 4 cylinder.
No problems at all. Of course, I only had it for two years... Back then I'd
buy a car every year or two. Heck! Most of them didn't cost much, even on
60's and 70's pay! It was following the oil embargo and the incredible
inflation that followed that car prices shot through the roof.
Just think; for what a new Miata might cost today, you could buy seven or
ten US cars in the 1960's or even early 1970's. You could buy a dozen or more
Italian or Japanese cars for that money. You could also buy two or three
French brand cars, and a whole bunch of English cars (Jaguar, Rover, MG, Austin,
Triumph, Austin-Healey, maybe LandRover...) You could buy three NEW Jaguar
E-types and/or Porche 911T models or three or four NEW Corvettes for the MSRP
on a new Miata today. The three premium German brands, Mercedes, BMW, and
Porsche, were still expensive, compared to other brands, but nearly as so much
as today. Don't know for sure, but today you could probably SCRAP a new
1960 Impala for as much as it cost brand new, for intrinsic metal value alone.