Thread: Citizenship of your ride

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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...

8 out of 11 are American built.....1 is foreign built but does have an American built 5.0L under the hood .

A bit of allsorts here, starting with the newest:

1994 Ford Fairmont, Australian design but built in New Zealand. It's our daily driver, bought cheap-as-chips from the side of the road...if/when it goes 'pop' I'll push it over a bank and get something else.

1964 A C Cobra replica, built in New Zealand. Running 429 Ford with C6 auto, Jaguar irs and Australian GMC Torana ifs.

1951 Ford School bus, built in America and imported by us a couple of years back. Now sitting on a 2000 lwb Chev dually chassis, and running a Chev 400 ci Vortec with 5 sp manual. Still a 'work in progress', but nearing completion.

1949 Morris Minor lo-light, built in the U.K. and imported new to N Z in 1950. Now running a later BMC front end, Nissan 1500 cc donkey with 5 sp manual, and Nissan rear end.

1947 Ford sedan built in Canada (I think,) and imported new to New Zealand. Now running Jaguar ifs and irs with 350 ZZ4 Chev donkey and turbo 350 box.

So yes; a bit of a mixture.

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2 Ford pickups and a Jeep wagon.

.... HHR, PT Cruiser ...... and an English survivor

I've been buying/selling/trading/building cars since I was 15 and have owned lots of different American and foreign cars. I always figured if it was a good deal and I could make a buck off of it, I wasn't picky about which side of the pond it was built on. The steel all came out of the same earth.

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???

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.

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

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 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.