From: Ray Fougnier (rfougnier@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Feb 06 2004 - 15:20:00 PST
There's no way they would be able to reproduce anything beyond plastic.
The marketing MBA's would never understand that to be desireable, they
would have to put some real money into it. To them, looks are good
enough, even if it only imitates instead of emulates the real thing.
Hey, they got away with putting a PT cruiser body on a $5000 Neon
platform, and selling them to movie stars at a premium. Some VP is
sipping champaign right now because of this crap.
J Brennan wrote:
> I saw one of these up close and personal at a West Point game in November
> (Scout Day). It was the prize for an ABC radio event up here. Very cheap
> looking. All the markings are just applied decals and done very poorly I
> might add. One wasn't even lined up properly. It looked like a high school
> kid added it to make it look "cool". However right next to it was parked
> one of the real ones that a local MV'r brought to display. It wasn't
> surprising that all the scouts in my troop were focused on the real bad boy
> then this cheap imitation marketing gimmick. It's a shame because they
> really could have achieved what they wanted had they actually involved some
> collectors. Oh well...
>
> John
> '93 M1038 HMMWV
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [MV] WILLYS MB WRANGLER 04
>
> Anybody else seen this tribure to to the MB from chrysler.
>
>
> http://www.jeep.com/willys/index.html
>
> Chuck H
>
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