Posted by Dick2 on July 02, 2016 at 11:40:48 from (184.101.8.4):
In Reply to: Re: RED WHITE BLUE posted by jimg.allentown on July 02, 2016 at 06:13:57:
I drove company lease cars during that period. The 1969 Galaxie 500 and 1970 LTD Fords were pretty good vehicles; by 1971 Ford's quality began to slip. If maintained; we had better luck with Plymouth company cars than the other two brands. We were supposed to turn in the cars and get a new one at 60,000 miles - until we got a letter from the lease company not to exceed 48,000 miles on the Chevrolet cars because they were pitching rods out the side of the block right after they reached 48,000 miles. I suspect the lease company put those cars on the used car lots and sold them to some unsuspecting buyer.
When I bought cars for the ADOT fleet, the standard was to sell those cars at auction at 80,000 miles, but a lot of Chevy's and Fords were put on the auction at 60,000 miles because it cost too much to keep them repaired to get them to 80K. We had a whole bunch of early 90's Chevy pickups with 350 engines that dropped valves at about 50,000 miles; very costly to repair. By then the foreign manufacturers were working hard to build more reliable products to gain market share. Their sales numbers tell the story.
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