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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98 <strong>REPAIRMEN</strong> WILL GET <strong>YOU</strong><br />
was too late to get anything fixed tonight. Patric<br />
took a cake of hotel soap, soaked it in hot water<br />
until it<br />
got soft then took it to the car. He piled it<br />
around the connection like putty, and that<br />
stopped the leak. We'll have to have the sabotage<br />
remedied tomorrow, and not at that garage!<br />
One repairman, though unquestionably incompetent,<br />
treated our investigators honestly:<br />
CASE 94. Delray Beach, Florida. The young mechanic<br />
in a big tire company's<br />
service station<br />
looked like a college boy just here for the winter.<br />
He looked under the hood but apparently saw<br />
the car and<br />
nothing wrong there, so he jacked up<br />
turned the wheels by hand to see "if the wheels<br />
are dragging." But he decided it wasn't that.<br />
"Lady,<br />
I'll have to drive this car to see what the<br />
trouble really is."<br />
So he drove the car down the<br />
highway. Lorelei will go fairly fast on six,<br />
the fellow gave the motor all the gas<br />
and<br />
it would<br />
take. "I guess<br />
it's the clutch," the fellow said,<br />
starting back. "It must be the clutch." Not wanting<br />
him to tear the clutch down with Patric sitting<br />
on a park bench typing reports, I said :<br />
"No,<br />
I don't think it's the clutch. Because once when a
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