Yeah Jon....The joke was, early on, that their cars were made from the reprocessed beer cans we sent them, but it wasn't a joke for long. The Japanese learned what the market was like and what we needed/wanted. They were still working on the rust thing, but I remember when Datsun brought out the 240Z and it was immedaitel tought of as a poor man's Jaguar, which wasn't too far off the truth.

Another upshot of this, with instruments especially, was that a lot of American companies decided they could rip-off themselves and set up their own Asian factories.

Spaw