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Bridgestone to buy U.S. auto parts retailer Pep Boys
Reuters ^ | 10/26/15 | ARUNIMA BANERJEE AND ANYA GEORGE THARAKAN

Posted on 10/26/2015 9:56:36 AM PDT by grimalkin

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To: Red Badger
Maybe he quit smoking!

Well, Manny certainly quit by 1959, since that's when he died. Moe, on the other hand, went on until 1982.
21 posted on 10/26/2015 10:45:47 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I stopped to help a guy who’s car had overheated...it had run out of coolant because the clamps to the heater core hadn’t been tightened down.

Oh yeah, he was driving it home from PB’s after having the head gaskets replaced there.

I worked in PB’s as a part timer many years ago...not a bad place then, got my parts at or near cost. But when they started adding scooters and other non-sensical, non-auto items to the inventory, I stopped patronizing them.


22 posted on 10/26/2015 10:47:49 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Moonman62

It’s sad when your Kumho gets dry rot......................


23 posted on 10/26/2015 10:52:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: grimalkin

Bridgestone sold motorcycles here in the 1960’s. A friend had one of the 2-stroke street bikes.


24 posted on 10/26/2015 10:53:47 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Red Badger

“”Who owns KUMHO Tires?””

Kumho.


25 posted on 10/26/2015 11:06:24 AM PDT by envisio (I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
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To: SZonian

I used to have work done at PB years ago. We had a babysitter whose dad ran their garage. They did quality work while he was there. Only idiots there now.


26 posted on 10/26/2015 11:10:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: grimalkin

Back in the early days of having a computer, hubby asked me to look up Pep Boys for a tire. I didn’t know what a Pep Boys was so typed in pet boys.... He hasn’t let me live that down.


27 posted on 10/26/2015 11:11:35 AM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: grimalkin

I cannot find it but there must be a China angle in this story somewhere...


28 posted on 10/26/2015 11:48:38 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: Buckeye McFrog

They wanted $1200 to change two rotors and put new brakes on a co-worker of my wife’s car, said it could be even more when they get it on the rack. My wife told me and I sent her friend to the mechanic/garage we use. She needed brakes on the front end, $100.


29 posted on 10/26/2015 12:57:55 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: grimalkin

Manny, Moe and Gyp


30 posted on 10/26/2015 1:37:17 PM PDT by Bobalu (Russians.... not ashamed of being white!)
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