Re: Back on DML!! - Update On Save Chrysler + more (long)

From: steve preston (steve239dak@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jan 27 2001 - 20:06:37 EST


Good to have you back,Tom! Did you see World News
Tonight last night? It dealt with the Daimler thing a
little bit.Depressing.
--- "Tom (Silver89)" <SilverEightynine@aol.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!! Geez I missed reading the DML!! I
> got alot of catch up
> reading to do now.
>
> I'm back after taking care of some things. Work on
> the Save Chrysler
> site will resume. Also - I have been doing my
> "homework". Som of you
> may recall I posted an excerpt froma book called
> "Taken For A Ride - How
> Diamler Drove Off With Chrysler". I have since
> purchased the book and I
> am almost halfway through reading it. If the
> accounts and recollections
> are accurate - or even CLOSE to accurate - as
> depicted in that book....
> then the situation we have today was the result of a
> series of blunders,
> bad calls, and transactions. Everyone from
> Kerkorian, to Iaccoca, to
> Bob Eaton and Bob Lutz and Schrempp.... are all at
> fault. I also do
> not think that Kerk should be in a position to take
> over Chrysler. It
> was his attempted take over - a hand full of years
> ago - that appears to
> have started everthing.
>
> Steve's Tuesday message about more cuts in jobs and
> production at
> Chrysler, is not suprising. It is a tactic that
> Schrempp employed when
> he took over Diamler CEO position, and has used on
> numerous occations.
> He is a firm believer is trimming things down to the
> bare essicentals.
> Anyway - I have to finish readind the book. ( I
> highly recommend the
> book to anyone interested in the Diamler-Chrysler
> situation. I picked
> it up at a Crown Books for a reasonable price.
>
> I will be letting everyone on the DML know of some
> good news I have to
> share. Soon - not now - but soon. Everyone will
> just have to wait for a
> while heheheheh. By next week I should be able to
> pull the curtain back
> on he mystery!! Untill then!
>
>
> --
>
> "Its no joke Tuco, its a rope..."
>
> Tom
> http://members.aol.com/silvereightynine
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>
>

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