This blog will expand on themes and topics first mentioned in my book, "The Automobile and American Life." I hope to comment on recent developments in the automobile industry, reviews of my readings on the history of the automobile, drafts of my new work, contributions from friends, descriptions of the museums and car shows I attend and anything else relevant. Copyright 2009-2020, by the author.
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Thursday, May 24, 2018
Pastor Jesse Deplantis Losing His Temper at a Car Dealership
I love Louisiana's Jesse Duplantis! He is not a religious phony, although his theology may be questioned.
This reminded me of my temper tantrum at a Omni/Horizon dealership around 1982. One of my grad student friends, Tom Cornell, got a job at Rochester Institute of Technology and needed a car. He had never owned a car previously, getting around Baltimore on a bicycle. (Tom was a history of physics guy and that explains a lot.) He asked me for help after he somehow was bamboozled into signing a contract for a car he never wanted. So I threw such a loud fit on the showroom floor that the sales manager ultimately raised a white flag and gave back the contract. Sometimes one has to be nasty on the sales floor to get personal social justice!
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