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Originally Posted by Falcon500

And that is a good point that was mentioned earlier that some owners are overly pendatic and this is usually most apparent if their elderly (and much worse if their ethnic opps did i say that? ) but some car owners will never be satisfied untill they get the car for nothing and they will complain about rattles and other such nonsense and then winge to anyone who will listen when the warrenty runs out....Experiance in a dealership teaches you alot.

A bit of dealership experience does indeed reveal the darker side of buyer mania. I've seen people complain about thin single threads one-inch long that haven't been trimmed off their cloth seat upholstery - so they bring it back to the dealer instead of doing it themselves with a pair of scissors! Another good one was a seatbelt warning light that stayed on for only five seconds, not ten seconds like the owners manual says ..

Uncanny that you specifically cite elderly ethnics - that Corolla owner I mentioned was you guessed it an old Italian. He was pretty much off his head when I encountered him

And the worst car for heat My father studebaker with its 8 single barral carbies we used to have problem with fuel evaporating on 40 degree days and after that happend it was a royal bitch to start again.

Wow that's a nifty bit of induction gear Crisis. I'm really intruiged by his Studie's red paint respray and if it was a Canberra car. By chance his car didn't happen to be a '64 Cruiser sedan with resprayed upholstery in chocolate brown and a Jaguar 4-speed gearbox fittted to it?

Btw if you or Dad are still Stude fans there's a good feature on Bathurst Studebakers in the current issue #25 of Australian Muscle Car (Bob Jane's Repco-Torana LC on the cover)