REPAIRMEN MAY GYP YOU-1951
"For six months," says The Neiv York Herald Tribune, "the two authors of this perturbing little volume made a nationwide investigation of the higher nature, if any, of the American repairman. Buying a used car of distinguished make, they engaged the assistance of a lady who looked more helpless than she was, and traveled 19,000 miles, with 1,700 calls on repair shops." "And no one," adds the Boston Post, "could ever pass this book with indifference Whatever your experience with repairmen may have been, you'll find its counterpart here. You will point it out with great satisfaction, and you'll say: 'There! That's exactly what happened to me once.' And you're lucky if it has happened only once. The Post can't think of any subject for research that touches more people. Buy this book, and you will get your money back, over and over, in amounts saved through your wisdom." "There are some amusing stories in it," says the Baltimore Sun, and the Washington Post thinks that the funniest were "the authors' experiences with the Rube Goldberg testing machines used by some shops to impress customers." "The articles in The Reader's Digest were interesting," remarks the Springfield Republican, "but they left room for doubt. The book, however, with details of the almost laboratory caution used by the authors in making their tests, is alarmingly convincing."
"For six months," says The Neiv York Herald Tribune,
"the two authors of this perturbing little volume made a
nationwide investigation of the higher nature, if any, of the
American repairman. Buying a used car of distinguished
make, they engaged the assistance of a lady who looked
more helpless than she was, and traveled 19,000 miles, with
1,700 calls on repair shops."
"And no one," adds the Boston Post, "could ever pass
this book with indifference Whatever your experience with
repairmen may have been, you'll find its counterpart here.
You will point it out with great satisfaction, and you'll say:
'There! That's exactly what happened to me once.' And
you're lucky if it has happened only once. The Post can't
think of any subject for research that touches more people.
Buy this book, and you will get your money back, over and
over, in amounts saved through your wisdom."
"There are some amusing stories in it," says the Baltimore
Sun, and the Washington Post thinks that the funniest were
"the authors' experiences with the Rube Goldberg testing
machines used by some shops to impress customers."
"The articles in The Reader's Digest were interesting,"
remarks the Springfield Republican, "but they left room
for doubt. The book, however, with details of the almost
laboratory caution used by the authors in making their tests,
is alarmingly convincing."
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pump," and started taking off everything he<br />
could remove from the top of the motor and<br />
doing<br />
it with incredible carelessness.<br />
I was afraid that after he was through the car<br />
wouldn't run at all, so I "just happened to notice"<br />
the loose wire. "Should that wire be off?" I asked<br />
innocently. "Doesn't matter," said he, replacing<br />
it. Then he continued to remove pipe lines. "You<br />
need a fuel pump all right," and he said he'd<br />
need a little time to get one.<br />
I went to a bum restaurant near by for a hamburger<br />
and coffee, and when I came back he was<br />
waiting for me before putting back our own fuel<br />
He didn't<br />
pump, which he had wiped clean.<br />
seem to care how he worked as he put the gas line<br />
back on. When he had everything reassembled<br />
and thought I wasn't looking, he turned on the<br />
gas valve again. Of course the engine would run,<br />
but gas spouted out of a couple of connections.<br />
He tied string around them. I paid the bill,<br />
which came to $3.38 exclusive of the gas, and<br />
drove carefully toward the hotel. On the way I<br />
stopped and lifted the hood gasoline was<br />
streaming<br />
out of<br />
the defective connection onto<br />
the motor. I parked the car and got Patric. It
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