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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PAT'S LETTERS 49<br />
the motor lightly with kerosene and then blow a little<br />
dust through the radiator. I want the car to look as<br />
if it's gone<br />
the shop.<br />
a few hundred miles since it's been out of<br />
Yours,<br />
PAT.<br />
DEAR BILL:<br />
Called your office, but you were out.<br />
I've<br />
New York City<br />
February 23<br />
been driving the Zephyr. Betty Jones drove<br />
it to the bank in Pleasantville and back. I let her<br />
drive it first in normal condition. She said it ran fine.<br />
Then I had her stop, and I removed the coil wire.<br />
Then she drove it again.<br />
do to the car to make it<br />
"What did you<br />
way? It's simply terrible," she said.<br />
"All right, I'll<br />
run that<br />
lift the hood, and you look. See if<br />
you can see anything wrong."<br />
Of course she pointed to the wire right away.<br />
Anybody, even an unmechanical girl, could see it.<br />
I had Harry Harper<br />
drive it a ways. He, too, was<br />
amazed at the simplicity of the project and at<br />
the<br />
fine condition of the old car. "You sure picked something<br />
simple," he said.
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