Lemon Harangue BY DAVE BARRY (This classic Dave Barry column was originally published on Jan. 21, 1990.) TODAY'S CONSUMER TOPIC IS: How to Buy a Car. The First Rule of Car-Buying is one that I learned long ago from my father, namely: Never buy any car that my father would buy. He had an unerring instinct for picking out absurd cars, cars that were clearly intended as industrial pranks, cars built by workers who had to be blindfolded to prevent them from laughing so hard at the product that they accidentally shot rivets into each other. For example, my father...
