I pulled in the driveway last night and slammed on the brakes…. I was the fifth
american vehicle and I was comforted by the sight of it. What good friends I have.

I tried the toybuckets once and loved how they run but hated the parts costs so
Chevy, Ford or Dodge and a Buick. Further back, ‘37 Studebaker – anyways,
replacement parts are very reasonable – that’s what is so nice about owning one;
you can afFord it.

I tracked two vehicles, GM, over a ten year period. I did all the maintaining. One
was new, the other was five years old. At the end of ten years, I tallied up and
found both vechicles cost the same to maintain from 1987 to 1997.

At the time, it figured to be about 145 dollars a year to maintain……
but try that with the ‘other’ cars or trucks. Like I said, I did once, and couldn’t afford
it.

A friend just wrecked her rear tail light assembly – 237 dollars. I multiplied by 4
for the other corners of the KIA box and came up with enough for a good used
vehicle, in my mind. “Hey, why don’t you buy American?”, I said, “For the price of
4 of these……”, and so on. Two days later she ditched the KIA for a Ford Explr. ,
what a gal!

My good friends with the american vehicles got a ‘thank you’ that night. I thot they
deserved it. I love my ford. I know they like their Dodge and Jeep (but the other
three in the driveway are Fords).

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