Harry,

I had a Blazer with the 6.2 diesel. It was an 84 I bought in 89 with 100k
miles on it. Hauling my 26' Penn Yan HT over the hills between Frederick, MD
and Erie, PA twice a year, I put 7 or 8 transmisssions in before I got rid of
it in 96. It had over 300k miles on it. I only had to pay for the 1st tranny
as I had a lifetime warranty from AAMCO. They were sure glad to see me get rid
of it.

I bought a new Chevy 3/4 ext cab HD 4 x 4 pick up with the 6.5 TurboDiesel in
95. It has a 5 speed manual with a "Granny" gear. It does those mountains at
70 and I don't even realize the boat is back there most of the time. Couldn't
go that fast with the Blazer. Truck now only has 95k miles on it. No problems
so far outside of warranty replacement of the injector pump (twice). Some
problem with the sulfer content of the fuel.

As far as the French go, I have had a problem with them for a while also. It
goes back to when that idiot Carter was in the white house. I had a meeting
with a Frenchman who asked me what I thought of the hostage situation in Iran
at the time. He was kind of talking down our country and I told him he had no
room to talk as they had not paid their WWII debt to us.

Although when I went to Paris in 89 on the Oracle Quota Club trip, the French
people treated us pretty good. It could have had something to do with the
amount of money we were spending.

BTW Harry, I understood your point..I was just messing with you.....

//Al


I am not a fan of GM cars, except for the Corvette, which I believe is a
good value sports car. I also like Chevy trucks, though, for a
full-sized hauler, I prefer Ford's F250 with the six liter diesel. GM's
cars, for the most part, seem unclever and cheaply engineered.

The issue, though, was not the relative quality of merchandise, but the
rise of the Euro and the decline of the dollar as lingua franca.