Happy 1st Night of Hanukkah!

"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg) 12/06/2015 at 19:02 • Filed to: None

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Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/06/2015 at 19:52

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I suppose that there aren't really any Hebrew cars we could post for eight nights, huh?

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious 12/06/2015 at 19:59

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Not really

Steve in Manhattan > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/06/2015 at 20:09

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This Jew wishes you all Hannukah greetings, and a holiday miracle - that the one night’s worth of gas in your car lasts eight nights. Chag Sameach.

Steve in Manhattan > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/06/2015 at 20:20

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And I forgot - the original Dodge Brothers logo is something, although they were not Jewish.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Steve in Manhattan 12/06/2015 at 20:35

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It’s rumored that they did that to piss off Henry Ford, but the official explanation is that they are two greek Deltas for the two Dodge brothers.

Steve in Manhattan > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/06/2015 at 20:46

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Ford was a nasty anti-Semite and a Hitler fan ... until it wasn’t PC to be. Lots of Jews, to this day, will not buy a Ford product.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Steve in Manhattan 12/06/2015 at 21:12

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That’s why I found it so funny that for a while our garage was made up of two VAG products and a Ford...dunno if a BMW is much better.

Steve in Manhattan > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/06/2015 at 23:08

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BMW made some engines that brought the bombs to London, unless I am mistaken.

Lots of American companies did business with the Nazis well into the Second World War. You can forgive, but you can’t forget.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious 12/07/2015 at 04:20

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there’s this one

Autocars of Haifa , Israel

offyatindy > Steve in Manhattan 12/09/2015 at 10:14

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....Far be it for me to cast aspersions on other MOT (members of the tribe) but it hasn’t stopped my lontzmen from buying BMW or Mercedes. For the record, there is a Ford in my garage and I don’t give it a second thought. Most machines don’t have murderous political ideologies. (Though Hal in 2001 was pretty scary.) Also, the Ford Motor Company was a patriotic supplier of bombers for the US during WWII.

If you want to rate companies based on their Nazi goodness or badness, Leica the camera maker, and its principals, Ernst Leitz II and his daughter Elsie Kuehn-Leitz saved hundreds of Jews before WWII by shipping Jewish employees, and some Jews who weren’t even employees to America. They make darn fine cameras too !

On the other hand, Hugo Boss of the suit maker of the same name, was a certified Nazi. He was a terrible human being, but well dressed.

offyatindy > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/09/2015 at 10:22

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And this one, the Sabra, from the same company.

“Sabra” by Jozef Neefs - (Public Domain)

From Wikipedia:

A common Israeli myth stated that camels found the fibreglass used in the cars’ body appetizing, and would often gnaw or eat away parts of the car, explaining why these cars are often seen with chunks missing from their exterior. The tiny population of camels still found in Israel in the 1960s could never explain this phenomenon, however.

Steve in Manhattan > offyatindy 12/09/2015 at 19:26

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Oh - I hear you. I have owned 3 Mercedes as well as 1 VW (if that counts). And my last car was a ‘97 SHO. But my dad was GM all his life save 2 Chrysler products (one a hapless Aspen). Still, I was surprised to learn recently that my extremely orthodox aunt and uncle had been the proud owners of a Town Car. But they did not, of course, drive it from sundown Friday until sundown Saturday. Whatever.