Are you blinded by loyalty?

[jphanna]

I don’t think I am loyal to a brand of anything, but I recon my dad was blinded by his loyalty to his Ford. He used to work for Chrysler in the 60’s and 70’s and bought 2 valiants as a result of that, but after valiants went out of production in 1982, he bought a new XE Fairmont. I don’t ever remember the valiants ever being off the road with repairs etc as a kid, but the XE had a major transmission failure in the first year. The airconditioning compressor failed and it had an serious engine problem which I wasn’t sure of exact details and the power steering pump failed and got replaced. I bought it off him at 73,000km in 1991, so it wasn’t what you call a high mileage car.

After he sold me that car he bought…..the EA in my Avatar. He threw so much money into that car, he could probably have bought an EB GT and still had change left over, and there is no end in sight to money being spent on it by me, as I took it over after he died last year.

He kept that car in a brick garage built into the house. No heat, dust or water could get in. there was carport was tacked onto the outside of the house exposed to everything and when he bought mum a new corolla worth $25,000, he kept that in the carport and left the ‘worthless’ EA in the garage. I said to him that the EA should be outside and mums car in the garage……NO WAY was the reply.

That is loyalty. Would you do the same?