Joe F.
Too stupid to realise what they're trying to do to me,..............I
mean FOR me.
> Instead of deep-sixing those, they could have sold
> them anywhere in Europe
> where there was a dramatic shortage of motor
> vehicles after the war.
>
> Would not have affected the car-manufacturers (US
> ones were not concerned,
> and local ones had waiting lists several years
> long), but what prevented
> this was the sheer cost of shipping the unwanted
> goodies to places where
> they were wanted and lack of sea-transport among
> other things.
>
> Until the late fifties, any car, ex-MV or other, was
> highly sought-after
> and prized, because of this scarcity; a cousin of
> mine was running a VW
> Schwimmwagen until 1954, because he could not buy a
> new car until he had
> finished his studies and graduated as an MD, and so
> qualified for priority
> delivery of a new car.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ron the Frog, in Darkest Paraguay.
>
> "-And how do you know he is the King ?"
>
> "-He is the only one who is not covered in
> shit."
> -- Monty Python, the Holy
> Grail
> -- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati/
> --
>
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