[Shotimes] The good old days.....was: RE: Futura... was: If Ford Asked you ...

[Shylo McKinsey]

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Baby Boomers...

Shylo McKinsey

'91 White MTX

--- George Fourchy <krazgeo@jps.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:22:43 -0500, James F. Ryan
> III wrote:
> 
> >He drove it to work everyday, northern NJ to the
> Bronx, and got
> >100,000 miles out of the original clutch.  He has
> nothing but praise for
> >that car and always says it was the best car he's
> ever owned.
> 
> Falcons and Mustangs were very mechanically similar
> in the '64-'66 vintage.  There
> was the National Council of Mustang Clubs, and we
> had a very active club in Fresno,
> when I was going to college.  At the time I had my
> originally red, then painted
> yellow '65 GT hardtop.
> 
> Comparing the average conversation about cars then
> and now.....
> 
> Then, we'd talk about how our cars might perform
> with the 4-Weber intake manifold
> available from Ford, which was the racing intake for
> the GT-350.  We'd admire the
> red 427 Cobra roadster in the showroom of the dealer
> where we had our meetings.  
> Sticker on it was $5100 or so.  We'd talk about the
> next autocross or T/D rally, or
> if we wanted a group buy on a custom grille that was
> all horizontal bars.  There was
> NEVER a mention of why is this breaking, or why does
> this only last this many miles.
>  (My front disc pads lasted 99,000 miles, and I
> drove that car the way I drive these
> cars now.)
> 
> Now....it's "why do the factory brakes only work for
> two hard stops, then fade to
> nothing?"...or how long will this clutch last, or
> that halfshaft, or "you have to
> lubricate your slider pins regularly, or you'll go
> through rear calipers and rotors
> way too fast".  And, last but not least...."the
> factory spark plugs are going
> obsolete.....what can we use now....?!"
> 
> ...small rant...
> 
> I have a theory about corporate management as a
> whole.  Back then, (in the 30s and
> 40s...depression and war years) the high-ups paid
> attention when they were in school
> and growing up.  They learned economics, they
> learned management, and they learned
> to look at the big picture, and they understood the
> concept that "the customer is
> always right".   Now, or perhaps starting in the
> late '80s or so...management was
> the same age as me, and future managers were in my
> classes in grammar school and
> high school.  They were the ones who thought they
> knew everything...never had to
> work hard, never scraped for a buck, sitting in the
> back of the class throwing
> spitwads and not paying attention.  Now they are in
> charge, and they don't know what
> to do.  That's why everyone at the top is either
> going to jail or just ignoring
> their customers.  They didn't learn responsibility
> to themselves and to their
> workers and customers.   'Nuff said.
> 
> ...rant over....
> 
> I sorta like those old, simple days, thinking back
> on it.  'Course, I was a little
> less big around back then, and I didn't have a
> problem sitting in those little
> board-straight bucket seats.
> 
> Ahhhh.....the good old days......  
> 
> ;-)
> 
> George
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