Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxe!holforty From: holforty@ihuxe.UUCP (Nancy L. Holforty) Newsgroups: net.auto,net.consumers Subject: Re: Muffler static (AAMCO rip-offs) Message-ID: <529@ihuxe.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 15:21:33 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxe.529 Posted: Thu Mar 22 15:21:33 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 20:55:45 EST References: <1392@aluxe.UUCP> <676@houxf.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 9 Around 1970 some of the AAMCO dealers in central Illinois were advertising free estimates. The trick was that you brought your car in, they tore it down, determined what the problem was, and gave you an estimate. However, if you decided you could not afford it and wanted to look further, they would point to your transmission sitting in pieces on a bench and tell your to take your car and transmission home. In order to get them to put it back together, you had to authorize the repairs. I think they eventually got in trouble for it, since the situation only lasted for a year or two.