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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100 <strong>REPAIRMEN</strong> WILL GET <strong>YOU</strong><br />
He drove the car about ten miles,<br />
most of the<br />
time as fast as the car and the road would permit<br />
around 70 m.p.h. I begged him to go slower.<br />
He responded: "What's the matter, gun-shy?"<br />
Then he went on : "What are you doing tonight?<br />
You're staying in Durham, aren't you?" I said I<br />
was married, and, to keep out of trouble, told<br />
him my husband was in Durham. "Couldn't you<br />
ditch your husband for a few hours?" he wanted<br />
to know. Finally we got back to the garage after<br />
one of the wildest rides I ever had. He said :<br />
"Just a distributor out of adjustment. I adjusted<br />
it all up for you.<br />
It'll be a dollar."<br />
Early in our survey we found that repairmen<br />
were very touchy on the matter of giving us back<br />
our old parts<br />
usually because they hadn't put<br />
in any new ones. One of our ten points of advice<br />
to motorists is :<br />
"Ask in advance for the return<br />
of any parts replaced. You will be less likely to<br />
be given something rescued from the scrap pile."<br />
We discovered this principle through the painful<br />
process of personal experience. Time after time,<br />
when we asked for the return of parts mechanics<br />
said they had replaced, we were met with eva-
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