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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of their "Forty operations in one." I pointed at<br />
the sign and said to the service manager "You<br />
:<br />
didn't do all those things, did you?" "Well, we<br />
did most of them anyway." I asked him: "Then<br />
why doesn't your sign say: 'We do most of these<br />
operations for $1.00'?"<br />
CASE 360. Hollywood, California. When I<br />
returned<br />
for the car it was in what they called the<br />
"proving ground," with all the Rube Goldberg<br />
devices attached. The coil wire was still off. The<br />
mechanic's tale of woe was a dismal one: "This<br />
job will take four hours. You'll have to leave it.<br />
You mustn't drive the car this way. I can't say<br />
yet exactly what's wrong but half your engine is<br />
completely dead. A motor tune up would help a<br />
little."<br />
I asked him how much a motor tune up was.<br />
"A motor tune up is $5.50, but that isn't enough.<br />
You'll need your distributor synchronized and<br />
carbon cleaned. You need a new fuel pump. You<br />
ought to have new plugs. Your distributor will<br />
require new parts. You'll need two condensers,<br />
and we'll have to have a carburetor repair kit<br />
too." The estimate which he wrote down for me
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