Miracle Cars

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  1. jcryan

    jcryan New Member

    My car's something of a miracle: 1984 Peugeot 505 Turbo Diesel powered by used cooking oil.
     
  2. Charles

    Charles New Member

    I finally got around to reading the October issue of Car and Driver magazine. Miracle Cars was such an incredible scam, I was surprised I didn't read about before. Which leads me to this question - does anyone know where "Dr." Baker bought her correspondence school "doctor of divinity"?

    "Halfway across the country, the 48-year-old Baker, a correspondence school "doctor of divinity," had heard about the Miracle Cars. She hoped to purchase one herself—wanted a Jaguar but settled for a Cadillac STS. More important, Gwen Baker made it known she was a towering figure among Midwest Baptists. If these Miracle Cars were intended as blessings for the devout, then it was surely she who could corral a pool of potential purchasers."

    http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=4&article_id=7093&page_number=1
     
  3. Dennis Ruhl

    Dennis Ruhl member

    For future reference - Ford's aren't miracle cars. Have owned many.
     
  4. Guest

    Guest Guest

    Three of the best cars I have owned were Fords. In college, after stupidily getting rid of a very nice '61 Chevy with a 283 engine, I bought a '63 Ford, 289 engine. Years ago I owned a 1990 Mercury Topaz which caused me no trouble until a Ford mechanic aligned the front end. I traded it in on a new 1998 Ford Escort. The Escort has more than 120,000 miles and the only problems came after 100,000 (flywheel and timing gears). The worst cars I have ever owned were Chrysler products.
     
  5. Dennis Ruhl

    Dennis Ruhl member

    Reporting a scam selling cars that didn't exist is dangerous. Soemebody is going to get the idea to start selling degrees from universities that don't exist.
     
  6. Dennis Ruhl

    Dennis Ruhl member


    Thought the Germans would staighten them out. No such luck.
     
  7. Jeff Hampton

    Jeff Hampton New Member

    He was a poker player of "astonishing talent" yet he LOST 8.7 million dollars?

    And he played Pai Gow? Give me a break! The first step in becoming a professional gambler is understanding which games are beatable in the long run. Pai Gow is not one of those games.
     
  8. Dennis Ruhl

    Dennis Ruhl member

    Everyone who steals big bucks "loses" it gambling. Some who "lose" it hope to find it again. Some do.
     
  9. Dennis Ruhl

    Dennis Ruhl member

    In genealogy, the Baker Hoax of close to a hundred years ago was legendary.

    A multi-million dollar industry develop around proving descent from a Baker who died and left an unsettled estate that consisted of the land in downtown Philadephia. Nobody actually checked the non-existent "facts".

    For future reference, when someone dies without a will or proven heirs the government gets it and it doesn't wait 100 years. Yes , one of my ancestors was a Baker from somewhere in the area.
     
  10. MichaelR

    MichaelR Member


    I have only owned one chrysler and it was a dream! the only thing ever to go wrong mechanically was the Distributor assembly. Outside of that the cv joints gave out, but that is to be expected. Any car will last for at least 100k miles just depends upon how it is taken care of and treated.
     
  11. MichaelR

    MichaelR Member


    I have only owned one chrysler and it was a dream! the only thing ever to go wrong mechanically was the Distributor assembly. Outside of that the cv joints gave out, but that is to be expected. Any car will last for at least 100k miles just depends upon how it is taken care of and treated.
     

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