My father in law had a VW beetle rolled over on the roof for parking
it too close to the Delco plant in Kokomo. He sold it and bought a
Nova after a snow plow destroyed it a couple months later. He got the
hint.
You have evidence the UAW was involved in either incident? More likely,
the former was simply an expression of love from his fellow workers.
When I lived in the Detroit area, the ad-pr agency I worked for had
American Motors as a client. I was not on that account, but it was
common knowledge at the agency that if you were heading out to AMC
offices or a plant, you went out there in an American-built car so as
not to offend management or workers.
I had a good time the few years I was in Detroit. Great restaurants,
great shopping, Sonny Eliot doing the weather and zoo reports, Canada
right across the river...