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usa made chevy short box . this stuff means not one thing ... start looking hard most of it is not made in the usa any ways. any replacement part s are not or very few but thats ok as some poor S.O.B in china is working for nothing and doing a better job???

2 Ford pickups and a Jeep wagon.

1999 Gm pick up, 2002 SS, 34 Ford coupe 32 Ford pick up, and 72 FX, call me narrow minded I will never own foreign. If thought of as narrow mind, thank you for the complement in advance.

Foreign for clarity has nothing to do with the country the product is built in. It is all about where the parent company is located.

No foreign cars or pick ups here.
These 4 are all diesel
1995 F-350
1972 K30 Longhorn
1976 K30 CC SWB
1968 Corvette

The only spark plug equipped things I own
1940 Ford
1990 Burb
129 Cub Cadel

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

usa made chevy short box . this stuff means not one thing ... start looking hard most of it is not made in the usa any ways. any replacement part s are not or very few but thats ok as some poor S.O.B in china is working for nothing and doing a better job???

I have to agree that a big majority of the parts used to build most cars and trucks in the USA these days are imported.

Originally Posted by HWORRELL

Focus designed in Europe and runs a Mazda engine & drivetrain

While it may have been originally designed in Europe, the design was "Americanized" at Ford Studios in California.

All American since I've had a license.

Do you guys think we could get a movement for drivers of the American makes to drive with there headlights on Memorial Day?????????How would/could we spread the word to make it happen?????

And I don't want to hammer anyone who has a foreign make, I just want some USA Patriotic American feelings like it used to be--- before all those little transistor radios------------

Originally Posted by 34_40

While it may have been originally designed in Europe, the design was "Americanized" at Ford Studios in California.

Yep,I know,but I'm just having fun with ya. Me and the Son in Law jack with each other all the time over this subject,buddy he is Pro American car. But I've turned wrenches everyday for the last 40 years and have seen the asian market creeping into the American models starting in the early 80's.So my take is its been here too long to try to stop it (read that to many $ involved) Hell look @ NAPCAR, Toyota is a dominant force,same thing in Midgets the last few years and you want to really read some smack,check out the Saturday night dirt track sites on the Subject of Kenny Wallace showing up with his UMP Toyota backed and motored Modified to the Saturday night bullrings !!! Them beer drinkin,ticket buyin folks in the stands ain't likin that chit one bit !

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Do you guys think we could get a movement for drivers of the American makes to drive with there headlights on Memorial Day?????????How would/could we spread the word to make it happen?????

And I don't want to hammer anyone who has a foreign make, I just want some USA Patriotic American feelings like it used to be--- before all those little transistor radios------------

Jerry I run with em on whenever I'm on the hiway anyway. Got no plans to go anywhere this holiday,cept to the garage and try to shape some some model a sheetmetal. But I'll try to remember and turn em on if I go anywhere Monday.

I've never owned and never will own any vehicle with a foreign name.
Monday, my grandson and I will go and decorate graves and I will try try to remember to turn the headlights on.

I drive a 2011 so yup, lights will be on.

My everyday drive(not that its used EVERY day,but most) is the old 1960 F100,,done about 50000 miles in the last 6 years..Lynda's everyday car is a 1993 Fairmont,,Aussie built,and the old everyday driver for the last 12 years is a Ford Telstar station wagon...(the dreaded rice burner) BUT...in saying that,a very good daily driver,,with 376000 km on the clock,and still running like a swiss watch..Been regularly serviced,but its not needed now we have the Fairmont..

Originally Posted by HWORRELL

Yep,I know,but I'm just having fun with ya. Me and the Son in Law jack with each other all the time over this subject,buddy he is Pro American car. But I've turned wrenches everyday for the last 40 years and have seen the asian market creeping into the American models starting in the early 80's.So my take is its been here too long to try to stop it (read that to many $ involved) Hell look @ NAPCAR, Toyota is a dominant force,same thing in Midgets the last few years and you want to really read some smack,check out the Saturday night dirt track sites on the Subject of Kenny Wallace showing up with his UMP Toyota backed and motored Modified to the Saturday night bullrings !!! Them beer drinkin,ticket buyin folks in the stands ain't likin that chit one bit !

All in good fun over here!

And you cannot argue with success! "They" build quality vehicles and has forced (to use a term loosely) the big 3 to step up their game. Let's face it, we gave them the technology after WWII and taught them how to do it all, then our own companies ignored the lessons learned and got greedy.. but that's another story right...

I think it all goes back to the '80's when "we", the consumer wanted performance cars and "they" the Big 3 with Big Brother holding a gun to their head kept ramming 4 cyl. cracker boxes down our throat!!!! (Remember the K cars?) That left the door open for all the foreign manufacturers to offer cars that not only outperformed the US cars, but out MPG'd them too. The US manufacturers spent too much time thinking we would all "buy American" and not enough time designing, refining, and building the cars consumers wanted. It's only with in the last decade (give or take a few years) that the US companies turned back to performance and actually designing cars that we wanted. With the introduction of the Ford mod engines, the Chevy LS engines, and Chrysler re-introducing the Hemi that folks can walk into a showroom and once again buy a Hi-Performance car that is US made!!!! I see a lot of folks switching back to US built cars now. I never got into the imports, other then and old Datsun that I bought for $50.00 to drive back and forth to work in the winter, but for years if you wanted a Made in the USA performance car you had to build it and very few consumers had the time or the talent to build their own.

As to driving with the lights on this weekend, most new cars have daytime running lights so it's hard to tell.... Personally, I'll just stay home and let all the drunks, text messagers, and cell phone addicts drive around and run into each other.