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WCDT 7-11 January 2019 (3911-3915)
cesium133:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 15 Jan 2019, 16:46 ---This seems to be going out of style. Every car I have bought in the last 20 years has not had the dealer’s name bolted on. Instead they have had the dealer name on an easily removable license plate frame.
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My car came with the dealer name bolted on, and I bought it in 2015.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 15 Jan 2019, 18:32 ---Tova? I'm sorry to ask, but what nation are you in again? (Australia? Do I remember that right?)
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No worries at all. Yep, you remember correctly.
Actually, I think it's possible for the plates themselves to have dealer branding on them. But that's a recent thing.
I don't think Australians would wear having the dealer logo bolted onto the car body.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 15 Jan 2019, 19:27 ---
--- Quote from: Morituri on 15 Jan 2019, 18:32 ---Tova? I'm sorry to ask, but what nation are you in again? (Australia? Do I remember that right?)
I actually remember a random scrap of a long time ago, when my brother was getting his first pickup truck. When for the first time ever I saw cars on the showroom floor *WITHOUT* the ugly additional dealership-badge chrome.
(They weren't actually bolted here in the US; we got 'mounted' instead where the chrome badges had pegs molded into the back and they punched a hole for the pegs to go in. So, no threads and no nut on the other side. They were friction-fit and could be pulled off by hand, but then you had a car with ugly holes punched in the fender).
Anyway, it turned out that a couple years previous, somebody had sued a car dealership to either get paid for the "advertising" he was doing for them or get a replacement car without ugly holes in the fender. And he won. And after that (literally decades now) I have never observed another US car dealership putting those ugly chrome plates on their cars. These days they "badge" the license plate frames instead, and of course you can exchange those at whim.
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FWIW, there's a local dealership up my way -- I'm in the PNW -- which still vandalizes the cars that way. I simply won't deal with them, so I can't say whether the badge is on the car before it's sold or not.
(Interpretation: PNW == "Pacific NorthWest", Washington State, Oregon, and other nearby scraps of the US. Dominated by Geeks and Nature Freaks.)
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We're neighbors, Otter.
Remember Huling Brothers' Buick in west Seattle? (Yeah, THOSE guys.) They ran a radio ad campaign making a big deal out of selling Huling cars which looked an awful lot like Buicks.
Theta9:
--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 15 Jan 2019, 19:27 ---(Interpretation: PNW == "Pacific NorthWest", Washington State, Oregon, and other nearby scraps of the US. Dominated by Geeks and Nature Freaks.)
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We're neighbors! I'm in Carlton, near McMinnville Oregon.
And OldGoat... I see a lot of goats along highway 47 between Carlton and McMinnville. :-D
A small perverse otter:
We are, indeed, neighbors. My home tidepool is in the hills east of Seattle...
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