Come on...Don't be upset at me, I wasn't trying to go harsh on you,. You are a kind person and your posts are very considerate, more so than mine, but you used "come on don't hold back now" on another post regarding a 340 build, I liked the line so much I wanted to see it again....lol
Seriously though,. There are many folks on this site but you are in the top ten in my book.
As for the Buda comment, the name has no reflection on me, the car is budha's car, not mine....
About Lee now, I knew you would like that quote, it came from the horse's mouth, yes he was a ford man and ran into problems with ford and had to leave, later on he brought shelby to chrysler as well, they both realized that staying at ford is a lost cause.
Now just listen to me, hofilbert, you too! Maybe I can get a like or agree from you too.
Let's go back to recent history for crap's sake....
You are of an age that you could remember ford Pinto.
They had a fuel tank problem with those cars .
Those cars kept catching fire in rear end type accidents and many people got injured and also killed because of it.
So, the DOT sent the accident reports to ford and wanted the problem fixed. So far this is not any different than any other manufacturer, as you said they all have problems. Now, ford did a through study and quickly found out the problem could be fixed with an $11.20 repair. But they draged their feet and decided to pay the insurance claims rather than fix the problem.
Their reasoning was that it would cost half as much to pay the legal fees related to the injuries and deaths as it would cost to change an $11 part on 2 million cars.
Many people died, incliding children.
Now who the *uck is ford and it's executives to decide that somebody's kid or wife is worth less than a $11.20 hose.
You see, when a person/corporation makes an unethical decision regarding the safety of other's, people of good conscience will loose confidence in the integrity of that person/company. They can not be trusted. Thats that.
Now the only thing I must add here is,
I can't be a fan of ford because of who they are and how they operate, that's my decision and millions of ford owners don't agree with me, but millions do agree with me and they buy gm or chrysler. If you are a chrysler guy, no explanation is needed, if you are a ford guy no explanation is enough!