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That why I wrote about the medications, No it don't have anting to do with automotive issues but it's still relevant due to company practices! GM knew the switch could Fail, Ford knew the pinto gas tank was unsafe, Chrysler knew they had issues with cars in the past. All these companies knew things were wrong and let them slide. Not to get off the subject here but International Harvester had one of the best 4x4's out there. the body's tended to rust badly. but what ended the scout? recall's corperate greed? None of those because Harvester was mainly a farm and truck maker. CAFE' standards killed the scout.

GM is not the only issue out there How about the medication and Surgical recall's that are coming out almost weekly? So many death's or life threating outcomes! Bladder swings, T- gels, Anti depression drugs, Metal hip replacement, Tylinol, Avandia, just to mention a few. Even the newer drugs If you listen to some of the sideeffcts things like kidney or liver damage can happen? heart problems ect. and Just like GM these companies knowingly sell these things. As I said before Recall's happen. After seeing what Dialysis can do to people first hand and there are still lawsuits pending for bad drugs used for that treatment. How many people died because medications ? or from bad surgery? To many far more than the 13 death's in the gm car recall's yes death is death but mass death from medication's that are ment to save live's?

A real issue is Quanity over quality. My dad worked for International Harvester/Navistar And that's a Quote from him. He worked 31 years and saw first hand how those cost cutting ideas worked. the idea was and is out produce the other company's. build more sell more, build them as cheap as you can and sell at a high price. Is this GM's idea? NOPE IT"S ACROSS THE BOARD, All auto makers do it! AND So attack GM for doing what Ford done in the 1970's But rember one thing here folks GM Wasn't the First and most likely not the last! As my dad once said cars and such went down hill when Companies decided to move to mexico or china for cheap labor and less inspection's HotWheel's recalled due to lead paint Tainted pet food kills pets toys recalled because small parts brake off to easy and this little jem Nike shoes made in sweat shops cost under $10.00 per pair cost at the store?(quanity/quality=$$$$$$$

Anyone know' what happened to him? I haven't heard from him since april 16, was working on a trade deal with him.

Bad air bags from japan so it my not just be a GM issue this time it could effect many more such as FORD, Chrysler and such. GM is certainly not the first to ignore a problem Detroit has enough blame to go around. All cars can have issues, Every automaker has put lemons on the road. It is just that GM's new CEO is trying to regain the publics trust, by recalling anything that may have an issue eventhough none have been reported by consumers. As I said before the Pinto was such a car that Ford knew was unsafe, The Corvair wasn't as unsafe as the claims that were made aginst it. Air pressue is not the responceability of the auto manufacture. Ford had gas tank issues in the late sixtys, as well as frame rot issues. all three manufactures had paint issues in the late 80's up to the mid 90's And as for cars made to last longer that's not that true either! Iv'e seen many ford's dodges and even some GM rusting out. and those cars and such are from 2000- up. My brothers Ford rusted under the doors so badly the metal was almost completely gone under his doors, His cars Transmission left him on the side of the road. His car was well maintained and serviced regulary, sadly the Transmission didn't last 80,000 miles nor did the body. He replaced that ford which he bought new in 2002, with a 1995 Buick Century . He drove my mother's Century to work before it got rearended soon after he bought the ford. His word's " I'll never buy another Ford!" he had a trunk that leaked when it rained, window leaked all since new. new starter at 15,000 miles he just put over $1000.00 in repairs to the engine(because of ware) But like I said all auto manufactures have issues. none are immune ! not Toyota , Honda no not any! Oh BTW does anyone rember a car called YUGO? NOW that was a car with issues. and If memory serves me correctly AMC had issues due to parts being from , FORD, GM, Chrysler, Dodge How Amc made all those parts work together was weird! and a Pain in the butt to fix!

one picture shows the body to chassie for test fitting. I tried to remove the pictures below, but for some reason when I tried to remove the one it became two pictures instead.

Even with the recall issues Chevrolet is still a top seller according to reports in the sunday paper. also GM has many cars getting J.D.Powers awards this year. Even the resale of used GM cars have not been affected by the recall's!

It al comes down to one word GREED! enough said.

If I remember correctly Nascar tried the rain tires, although the tires worked the winshield when it rained was the issue. Wiper's would be a issue for aerodynamics. basically you'd have to have special cars for "rain races". Nascar has road courses that they race on such as sear's point and walkins glen.

Pinto had 27

and how many died in the Pinto's? I understand that's why I wrote that GM is not alone in negelgence And the fact that Ford had a lawsuit in Indiana for homicide. Like I said FORD knew the pinto wasn't safe by their own test. Just as Gm knew the ignition problem but if you look at the data Only 13 crashes resulted in death and of those 13 most were teenage drivers whome didn't have the experience to adapt to an engine being shutoff. most older drivers would : shift into (N) restart engine and back into drive. There was a test done on a Saturn the driver done everything to get the switch to fail he succeeded when he put to much on the key chain causing the key to pull down and shut the car off, He did the shift into N and restarted the car. Also a total of less than 100 cars had this happen out of millions sold. Same can be said about the pinto, or the Eco boost problem's It's not band loyalty induced it's just the fact as it's a Fact that Demo derby drivers like the early 70's gm wagons, or the 64 imperial's and now the ford Crown vic. Every auto maker have faults. Look at what the big three did to Preston Tucker! all because he made a safer car! the man innovated the laminated windshield, padded dash, seat belts, Disk break's and more. all before the seatbelt became manditory. all these safety added things we now have in every car made.

Harry, GM is not the first to hide problems and know that the parts were substandard, FORD did the same Thing with the pinto . Ford knew That the gas tanks were not right they even had three different ideas to resolve this matter just after production of the pinto had started. one idea was a rubber bladder made by good year that worked but was rejected because it cost just over $5.00. And according to the information that I read Ford had gas tank problems before this. FORD's President got rearened and his tank opened and caught fire he got out without being harmed. He addressed this to Ford so it wouldn't happen again This was a few years before the PINTO! Bottom line FORD knew and sold the cars anyway. Just as GM knew and sold cars anyway. Even though 8 of the 11 crash test Pintos gas tanks ruptured 3 did not due to safety devises that were done to the tanks. again this test was done just as production had already started! See: HOW STUFF WORKS THE PINTO CONTORVERSY

A truck load of Fords that never made it to the dealer, the cars just caught on fire. Ford had problems an still does with the eco boost engines. this Ford flex started with a rattle went to a shake and burn.

Yep, I voted on those. Please vote for any of mine (ranma)

You do not have to join to vote ,but to make your idea's you will have to join the site!

Right now the most requested things are 1/72 Russian troops! Come on guy's heres your chance to vote on some car models on there. I have three kit sugestions on there 1.1960 Chevrolet Impala wagon 2.1966 Chevrolet impala wagon 3.International harvester 9670 c/o all as 1/25 scale kits the impala's have 100 votes so far and the 9670 has 30! (I just posted the semi yesterday!

Actually, it does, I maintain my cars with proper maintance, I don't abuse my cars either. Beside my Dad always had gm cars. and he never had issues with any of them. I recall the 78 Dodge pickup he bought caused more trouble and cost him more money than any of the GM products that he owned! The manifold cracked three different times on that dodge truck Dodge put to small of a radiator in the thing, plus when it got damp or cold out it wouldn't start. He instilled in me that If you take care of your car It will take care of you. BTW he bought a Mercury Metor new and it was in the shop more than he ever dove it. he bought the 71 Catalina wagon new, it was still going strong when he sold it in 1978! and we had the grand safari wagon from 77-89. and it had over 300,000 miles on it when he sold it and it was still going strong as well. He bought an 86 Celebrity new and had it till 2002. It was still running when he sold it.

Most were used cars, but the 84 new port I got in 87 didn't even have it a year! as with the Omni it was less than a year after buying it Used. But as I say they were all Used but New cars to me. I never owned one like it before that is. My Corsica has had the Computer replaced, that cost less than 80.00 Not bad for a computer to last that long, the starter again it was the factory part, and the heater core replaced. But the car has never left me on the side of the road! GM's problems will end and then some other automaker's will start. from Ford to Toyota back to ford and on to GM. Intresting fact The For pinto 1971-1980 had 27 deaths related to the gas tank fire's That makes GM"s 13 look better.

I placed this on revell's share your dream, If any fellow model truck builders will vote for this IH 9670 to be produced in 1/25 kit form, Maybe Revell will produce it.

BTW, Iv'e owned Chevrolet's, Pontiac's, Oldsmobiles, Buick's, Dodge's Chrysler's and ford's and a mazda pickup. none of the Chevy's ,oldsmobile's left me stranded on the side of the highway as the 3 ford's I had, or the four dodge products I had. 2 tempo's that either the front drive system went out or engine failure. 2 dodge caravan the drive train busted on . a Newport that the Transmission self destructed on and a Omni that the front coil spring busted and tore the heck out of the car. One buick Centruy that the time belt went out on (zero tolerance engine) on that one. I bought an 88 celebrity for $300.00 and it lasted four years and had over 300,00 miles on it. traded it and got my 91 Corsica . that had only 67,000 miles on it. (I bought the celebrity in 2009 and the Corsica which replaced it in 2013.

Maybe because GM makes more and sales more cars than Ford. even if it was the last century Ford had it's troubles in the 70's My aunt told me about a Ford she had bought new and within the first two years the steering wheel cumbled apart!, ford also still has problems popping up on the ECO-Burst(Boost) engine's.

Need to see the US recall news dated December 18,2013! between 2005 &2009 For recalled 14 million cars and trucks. and if you read this it shows that ford much like GM made bad choices! and don't think that Honda ,Toyota are amune to this because they aren't!

The only decal used on this truck is a red pinstripe at the bottom of the white stripe. I added a fire exstingisher to the inside of the sleeper inside the lower compartment. I'll post a picture of that later.

For those of you Bashing GM The latest top 10 unreliable used cars List is online now and there isn't a GM product listed! Kia,VW, Mini Copper are on the list. as are Mazda, Subaru , jag, Smart car, and Land rover. This just proves that GM is not alone in all of this. Don't anyone rember the PINTO? Or Ford frame rot problems of the 70's? My cousin had a 73 ford pickup that he had to junk due to the frame being so rotted and that was in 1979! when I was in auto tech in High school we had a nice looking 64 ford donated to our school The reason was frame had rotted out but the body didn't. That car was cut up for scrap! If you look it up online Ford has had just as many recall's in recent years, and on you tube there's a video of a 2012 ford Flex with a engine rattle noise. You can really here it rattle badly.

This is my most recent build of the 7Th Transtar 4300 to be added to my collection.