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Newspaper Article,
August 1975 - Carol Kiester, a wife of a Bricklin engineer in Levonia,
Mich., sits on the side of the white Bricklin she and her husband drove to
Saint John from the Detroit area. Mrs. Kiester says she thinks the Bricklin
"is the best sports car" on the road and New Brunswickers
should be proud it's being built here.
Driving a Bricklin automobile 1,200 miles from Detroit to Saint John turned
out to be a "shocking" experience for Carol Kiester and her
husband Lowell.
What shocked Mrs. Kiester was the skepticism of most Canadians, including New
Brunswickers, over the future of the speedy gull-winged sportscar.
Mrs. Kiester, whose husband Lowell is a chassis designer at Bricklin's
engineering plant at Levonia, a suburb of Detroit, said, "I just
couldn't believe the comments we've had from people here. Every time we would
stop, people would say they had heard there were all kinds of problems with the
Bricklin - that the doors wouldn't work, that you couldn't see out the rearview
mirror, that it wasn't selling."
Admitting to being baffled by all the comments,
"because they love the car in Detroit," Mrs Kiester decided to
drop down to the newspaper office here the other day to see what had been
written about the vehicle.
Her decision to do that, she said, was prompted by an incident in uptown Saint
John. "I stopped for an ice cream," she said, "and by
the time I came out there were about 15 people standing around. When I told
them we had just driven from Detroit, they seemed amazed that we had really
made it that far."
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Bricklin booster Carol Kiester said she's driven in some pretty bad places,
but a rotory in Saint John takes the cake. "I've driven all over the
United States and other parts of Canada," she said in an interview,
"but the worst place I've ever tried driving through is that place...
what is it Hay something or other." Asked if she meant Haymarket
Square, she replied, "That's it. It is awful. I've never been such a
mess. I shake every time I go near it."
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