MY CAR WAS MADE

here in the US, I think. I'm not sure though. I used to drive cars that sin duda de que (without a doubt) were made here. But I didn't quit on American car makers:they quit on me.

Quit making nice looking cars. That were safe. Let me 'splain.

For years and years, no one could touch American car builders. In styling, in efficiency, in safety, in price, in numbers. But something happened. Well, we all know what happened, but American automobile makers fell behind in the world.

I left them in 1989 when I bought my first Toyota. Made in Greenville, Kentucky. But it wasn't an American company, so I acquiesced. I didn't feel good about it, until 5 years later.

When I was on my way to the vet when a cattle truck ran a red light and broadsided me and my big dog near the police station in MTV. I wasn't hurt. Neither was my dog though he did receive a cut lip. The big guy wasn't buckled up.

But there was a reinforcing cross rod in the passenger door of my 1992 Camry that saved my lunch. The car door just molded around my body; otherwise, I could have been seriously injured since the collision totalled my car, and bent the frame.

I don't know if American made cars by American auto workers include that feature in their cars now. But my loyalty is still with the company who featured the reinforcement way back when.

But I could be persuaded to change if I saw something spectacular in the design of an American car. Maybe another '57 Chevy, or a '67 Mercury Cougar.