Re: RE: short throw shifters

From: GSWillhite (GSWillhite@ualr.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 14 1998 - 11:23:19 EDT


>
> << tech@mrgasket.com HERE IS THE LETTER THAT I SENT TODAY
> >>
> Hi, My name is Eric Kurtz. Im a clay sculptor for Chrysler in the Jeep
> Truck studios and am also a very big Mopar guy. Me along with some others
> that Im sure you will get mail from shortly are extremely curious as to why
> you don't make a short throw shifter for the older and newer Dodge Dakotas
> with a manual trans. You make them for Integra's and S-10's which in my
> opinion doesn't have the power to budge an ant, and yet I cant get one for my
> 5.9 with the NV3500 transmission. Now, if Im not mistaken, this is a
> transmission built by the joint venture of Dodge and Chevy so this trans is
> also in full size Chevy's. So considering this, you customer base for this
> item would not only be Dodge owners, but Chevy owners as well. Knowing both
> customer bases, it seems to me that the company that reacts to our request
> will soon run into a frenzy of orders from both sides of the market. Why not
> your company? Or better yet, why hasn't anyone else thought of that?
> I thank you for your time, and hope to be able to place my order soon!
> R Eric Kurtz
>

Yeah, I do recall something about that Chevy/Dodge venture.
Good strategy Eric, maybe they'll see $ signs.

GS -



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