From: J Brennan (brenrock@optonline.net)
Date: Fri Feb 06 2004 - 19:29:37 PST
Aye, but I cannot agree with ya there fully. There is a way however they
chose the cheap way and we all have seen the result. This VP may be sipping
the Champaign and thinking he did it right but his peak is short lived and
success hollow. HAD he taken the risk and HAD the big brass ones to PUSH
the system and done it right he'd be so far above that Champaign now
wouldn't he. So in reality he's a failure and the sales will reflect it -
so all his peers will know it as well. Lost opportunity.
But in the end, who's the real fool, the one who makes it or the one who
buys it? Caveat emptor - the majority have seemed to forgotten that.
Sorry but no real MV content now is there. OK, My HMMWV is starting up just
fine in this lovely winter we are having up here in the NE but my son's '74
British military Land Rover Series III Mod 109, well she's being fussy. I'm
laughing - he's pissed - but we'll figure it out this weekend.
John
'93 M1038 HMMWV
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Of Ray Fougnier
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 6:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [MV] WILLYS MB WRANGLER 04
There's no way they would be able to reproduce anything beyond plastic.
The marketing MBA's would never understand that to be desireable, they
would have to put some real money into it. To them, looks are good
enough, even if it only imitates instead of emulates the real thing.
Hey, they got away with putting a PT cruiser body on a $5000 Neon
platform, and selling them to movie stars at a premium. Some VP is
sipping champaign right now because of this crap.
J Brennan wrote:
> I saw one of these up close and personal at a West Point game in November
> (Scout Day). It was the prize for an ABC radio event up here. Very cheap
> looking. All the markings are just applied decals and done very poorly I
> might add. One wasn't even lined up properly. It looked like a high
school
> kid added it to make it look "cool". However right next to it was parked
> one of the real ones that a local MV'r brought to display. It wasn't
> surprising that all the scouts in my troop were focused on the real bad
boy
> then this cheap imitation marketing gimmick. It's a shame because they
> really could have achieved what they wanted had they actually involved
some
> collectors. Oh well...
>
> John
> '93 M1038 HMMWV
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of SETOYOTA@aol.com
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 12:01 PM
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> Subject: [MV] WILLYS MB WRANGLER 04
>
> Anybody else seen this tribure to to the MB from chrysler.
>
>
> http://www.jeep.com/willys/index.html
>
> Chuck H
>
>
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