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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 6, 1992                   TAG: 9202060505
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-12   EDITION: METRO 
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NO COMPLAINTS ON AMERICAN CARS

SINCE THE automakers of Japan and some Japanese politicians think the American people are so lazy, when will the American people wake up and stop buying their automobiles?

I started out in the late 1920s with four-cylinder Fords, Chevys, and even a four-cylinder Dodge with a 12-volt system.

In 1927 I got my first six-cylinder Buick, then on through Chandlers, Stars, Maxwells, Chryslers, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs, and even Willys.

I think I tried them all. The only "lemon" I ever got was from a crooked dealer who lied about the car. I personally have no complaints about American cars. I have had Cadillacs that ran into their third 100,000 miles with only tires, points and plugs changed. A car gives service according to the way it is treated, as with anything else.

I presently own a 1983 Pontiac with 140,000 miles. It doesn't burn oil or have any motor trouble.

If the American people will stop buying foreign cars and let the importers' lots fill up with unsold cars, we can show the foreign automakers just how smart the lazy American people are. BEN M. RICE NATURAL BRIDGE

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