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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104 <strong>REPAIRMEN</strong> WILL GET <strong>YOU</strong><br />
morning we'll give it to you. The mechanic has<br />
gone home, and I don't know what he did with<br />
it." The bill was $2.50 for labor and sixty-five<br />
cents for the forty-cent condenser the garage did<br />
not install.<br />
CASE 173.<br />
New Orleans, Louisiana. A big garage<br />
run in connection with a hotel. There was a<br />
bill for $2.00 when we came to get the car, but<br />
nothing on the bill to show what had been fixed.<br />
No one on the first floor knew what had been<br />
done to the car. Finally they<br />
located the mechanic<br />
upstairs, who said: "I had to adjust the<br />
carburetor, set your points,<br />
and I had to solder a<br />
new clip on the coil wire." Seizing upon this<br />
tangible trifle,<br />
I asked the mechanic if he would<br />
come downstairs and show me the new clip (it<br />
was the same one that had been on the car when<br />
I took off the wire). "Where was the clip you<br />
had to put on?" I asked him. "Here" he<br />
pointed to the clip<br />
wires off and said :<br />
we'd unfastened. I<br />
"Why, those clips<br />
took the<br />
are both<br />
alike; where's the one you took off?" "Upstairs<br />
in the junk, I guess," answered the mechanic.<br />
"Well, let's go find it. I came to this garage be-
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