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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266 <strong>REPAIRMEN</strong> WILL GET <strong>YOU</strong><br />
come to court at all,<br />
and only did come to court<br />
because two sets of second-rate lawyers were happily<br />
opposing<br />
each other and<br />
profiting by the<br />
opposition. But how to investigate them? One<br />
could hardly devise an imaginary<br />
it<br />
to lawyers for their handling.<br />
Mention is<br />
case and take<br />
made here of the doctors and the<br />
lawyers simply because the garagemen, in their<br />
counterfire, aimed so many shots in the direction<br />
of those two professions. To repairmen who<br />
attempted to cover their retreat by that tactic<br />
we replied that they might be right, but that it is<br />
no defense of the repairmen to say<br />
that other callings<br />
contained dishonest practitioners too. If I<br />
am hauled into court charged with assault and<br />
battery,<br />
it is not a successful defense for me to<br />
say "Yes, but look at Mr. Z., he killed a man." It<br />
would be, in fact, an admission of my guilt in<br />
the charge of assault and battery.<br />
So,<br />
with the<br />
garagemen, their attempt to pass the charge<br />
along to the doctors and lawyers was an actual<br />
admission of their own guilt as mechanics.
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