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06-12-2003, 06:20 PM
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the day was nearly over when I got a call from the Washington D.C. office, it was my secretary, she had received an urgent message from Lee Iacocca, "dear mr.00X, I have been following your search for a few years now and I believe that I have some information that may be very helpful to you". I was astounded, what could the former Chrysler chairman have to tell me??? When I got into LAX from Taiwan, I immediately returned his call. He was not in but his secretary said he left the following message for me "Chrysler, since being overtaken by Daimler, is hiring many German engineers at the job fair this weekend, since the man you are after has got to be unemployable as an engineer in Germany after that poor design, he is likely to surface at the job fair here, good luck" This was a great clue, I decided to fly to Detroit immediately but all direct flights were full so I would have to stop off in.....
06-12-2003, 06:30 PM
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And then I came upon "IT". The sercret Porsche assembly line where they stuff LT-1 V-8's into 944's. Everyone there was so happy in their work. They said "Un Porsche wit der horsenpower, yes? Ve shuld hav made der horsenpower 944 many yerds ago, yes? Es so much bedder wit der horsenpower. Dem 'merican boys sur ar der smart ones, yes!" And then it dawned on me...they'r right!!! So I caught the next plane back to the good ol' USA with the plan on converting all 944 to LT-1's when....................
06-12-2003, 06:30 PM
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since my connection would not leave till the next morning, I decided that the 3.5 hour drive would be the best solution, I quickly ran downstairs to the car rental agency and picked up my car, a 2003 ...
