@VDCdriver “I don’t know about you, but I am fascinated by people who can buy a car, see it every day–including its model name–and yet not know what the correct spelling of their car make & model actually is.”
This actually happened to me…a young lady comes in and tells me that her mechanic says her car uses a special kind of oil that only he carries, but her oil light is on and he’s across town. I assure her that unless she drives a Ferrari I have whatever kind of oil she needs.
“What kind of car do you have?”
“Umm, a Ford Integra.”
"I see, well let’s go check the oil level."
And we walk over to an Oldsmobile Alero.
ok4450 My Fiat X 1/9 Bertone was registered as a 1981. It must have been a transition car. I feel your pain as the Buick dealer I worked for in the mid 1970s also sold Opels and Saabs. The Opels were not bad but the Saabs received the mechanic’s groan they were known as S.O.B.'s.
There are some mechanical operations on SAABs that are aggravating to say the least but overall I didn’t mind them at all. They were money makers to me but the running joke was that the SAAB spelling was wrong and should have been S.O.B. Another was “customer with a SOB story…”.
When my brother went to his mechanic’s shop to pick up his son’s SAAB after one more of its ongoing repair visits, his mechanic said, “You know, there’s just one thing that I don’t understand about SAABS”. My brother asked what it was about this make of car that he didn’t understand, and the mechanic replied, “Why they make the damn things!”
