damn pricey they are. Anyone remember grain belt beer? Used to pick those old cans up in the 70's when I was collecting beer cans.
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polara71
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I still have my beer cans, over 700 of them
Still have mine too Dave but no idea on quantity. Probably less than you and many of mine are repeats. I probably have most of the schmidt outdoors ones and many dups. Also have a lot of bicentennial Falstaff and several Billy beer and of the fat lady old frothingslosh LOL.
Unique I have no idea anymore although I used to keep up with what I had. Now they are just in trash bags in the garage.
Unique I have no idea anymore although I used to keep up with what I had. Now they are just in trash bags in the garage.
polara71
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Mine have deteriorated because they are in the attic. I never had doubles but probably 12 different 12 oz bud cans , one from each Brewery
mr. fix it
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For us it would be from Niagara in season and Argentina in the Winter...
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I had a chance to buy a 6 pack of Billy beer last summer but i walked away because i didn't think it would make the trip back home.
Not that I would drink it but it would probably explode in the trunk of the car!
Not that I would drink it but it would probably explode in the trunk of the car!
That may be true, but that will eventually change... Just like it did in Japan.
The wages are just part of the equation though. I think that transportation costs might even out the wage differences.
The point I'm trying to make (and I'm sure you know) is that we haven't done anything to help the work stay in this country. Taxes, environmental regs etc. pull us down farther rather than building us up. We don't even bother training our young people to work with their hands anymore.
It's just become logical to save money by getting it done overseas.
polara71
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70bigblockdodge
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That guy is certifiable and his over the top opinions did not help his business, and I'm sure he will tell you all about who did him wrong forcing him out of a couple different businesses.
Just think of all the truck drivers you helped running components out of Lerado Tx to Brampton Ontario. Canada.
Nissan apparently hates truck drivers. I say Boo on them.
And I made a pretty good living off them, along with sleeping in my own bed in a house next to my wife every night.
Unless you buy a vw product of any kind
MarPar
Meat Man with a Hat
I have heard a few stories bout him...and yes, he is definitely certifiable.
70bigblockdodge
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That place is literally a mile up the road from the intermodal yard I pulled out of for 10+ years and about 2 miles from the Allied Van lines agent I was leased to before that. Bar is upstairs from ice warehouse, can be dangerous stairs after enjoying a few too many beverages. We always laughed that if you tumbled down the stairs fast enough you could roll right out onto US route 30.
MarPar
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Carmine
Old Man with a Hat
I'm sorry but I hate to let things like this stand without rebuttal, although it rarely seems to stick. I'm fighting an "industry" dedicated to blurring the facts*. This chart is a screen capture from NHTSA, the government agency that determines Monroney label (window sticker) content. American Automobile Labeling Act. The Titan is listed as having 50% US/Can content.
The act treats US/Canadian content as "one", this is probably due to the 52-year integration of the US/Canadian industry. (Auto Pact) Chrysler and Ford are usually neck & neck for sales leadership in Canada. If Americans purchased as many American vehicles as Canada (as a percentage), the American industry would be a lot better off. So frankly, because the Canadian market is the most open to US products, I don't have an issue with the combined figures. And I can tell you from the inside there are hundreds of workers crossing that border in both directions, everyday.
True enough, NHTSA rates 24% of the 300 as coming from Mexico, (63% US/Can) which has to be based on the strength of Hemi-engine sales because the Pentastar V6 is made in 3 different factories (2 in US, one in Mexico). In terms of logistics, it would seem silly to ship V6s from Mexico when there are two US sources. However, the Hemi is sole-sourced from Mexico. All transmissions come from Indiana.
A word about those factories in Canada and Mexico... At one time, both nations required local production to sell in their markets, thus all of the US companies have been manufacturing there for 90 years. The difference after 1965's Auto Pact and 1992's NAFTA is that these plants have now become sole-sources for a particular product, rather than nation. For example, every 4cyl engine in a Chrysler product sold in Can/Mex would come from the US without tariffs. This is simply driven by quality (simplifying production) and cost reduction (duplicate tooling).
While we Americans (Canadians too I suppose) treat free-markets as a "right" on par with free speech, religion, association, etc. The rest of the world doesn't operate that way. There is no such thing as an American-owned Japanese industrial corporation because the Japanese (or Korean, or German) governments simply don't allow it. Both Chrysler and Ford attempted to purchase controlling interests in Mitsubishi and Mazda decades ago. Selling in Asia or Europe adds a value-added tax to to American products, effectively this is a tariff because it includes the costs of US taxes, while the US tax system doesn't include the cost of European or Asian taxation. Of course China, being an openly communist nation doesn't even bother to use these covert, arcane tricks. They just demand partnerships with Chinese auto companies and local production for access to their markets.
People are of course free to make their own decisions on how to spend their money, but if they understand what's going on, they aren't free to act out of ignorance.
polara71
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Last I checked Fiat isn't headquarted in the U.S. so what makes them any different than Nissan and others.
At least Titans are assembled in Tennessee.
At least Titans are assembled in Tennessee.
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FCA US LLC is a North American automaker with a new name and a long history. Headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, FCA US is a member of the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (FCA) family of companies.
Carmine
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For purposes of taxation, they're HQ'd in the Netherlands, like a lot of other companies. Let's hope our new President closes both that loophole and the motivation for it.
But that's a good bit different than saying "97% etc". Or that a 300 has barely anything from the US.
I think this subject has been covered a dozen times in my short time being active here. I doubt it ever changes anyone's opinion. People either think these things are important enough to affect decisions or they don't. There is a 3rd mindset that does care, but wants to rationalize.
What's odd to me is many of the same people who don't want to trust the mainstream media, or criticize Internet Top-Ten lists refuse to believe the globalists would present misleading information on the issue... or feed you the line that "it's a good thing!"
But I don't think these discussions accomplish much.
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