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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10 <strong>REPAIRMEN</strong> <strong>MAY</strong> <strong>GYP</strong> <strong>YOU</strong><br />
automobile clubs whose members, much looked-up-to,<br />
photographed constantly, travel widely in their carefully-serviced<br />
automobiles of yesteryear.<br />
The early-day car that survived yesterday's roads<br />
will run anywhere on today's highways.<br />
In calling the American motor car a "fine machine,"<br />
we make a gross understatement. The product<br />
of America's automotive industry is truly one of the<br />
brightest achievements of a race of men who became<br />
creative by being free. Not only does it do to virtual<br />
perfection the job for which it was built, but it functions<br />
with an absolute minimum of trouble. It is<br />
by<br />
far the costliest and most intricate piece of machinery<br />
ever entrusted to the average man left alone and<br />
;<br />
yet,<br />
provided with its few simple needs, it performs its<br />
many highly complex functions day in and day out,<br />
summer and winter, whether driven by a skilled mechanic<br />
or by an elderly lady who could not distinguish<br />
between a hydramatic transmission and a carburetor.<br />
Further to romance about this miraculous creatureit<br />
does more than merely carry us :<br />
it warms us<br />
in winter; it cools us in summer; it gives us light at<br />
night it magic-carpets the parlor sofa into the romantically<br />
moonlight countryside<br />
;<br />
it brings us the music<br />
;<br />
of the moment and the news of the world even as it<br />
happens.<br />
The automobile is incomparably our best servant<br />
and our most satisfactory inanimate friend. Sometimes,<br />
indeed, it seems not at all inanimate. In truth,<br />
the gypping of this machine is far more despicable<br />
than is the gypping of its owner.
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