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Bill O'Reilly: "The Left Wants Power Taken Away From the White Establishment"

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ObserverArt12/21/2016 10:47:02 am PST

re: #223 Barefoot Grin

The irony was that the attempt to protect Detroit through tariffs was just the fillip to get Subaru-Isuzu (at the time) to build in Lafayette, Honda into southern Ohio, and Toyota into Kentucky—followed of course by German and South Korean makers. So, in some ways, I guess it worked. Not so much for the union guys, though.

Honda is in central Ohio. Marysville, which is about 30 miles northwest of Columbus. There was a reason for that too. Ohio had what was called the Ohio Transportation Research Center which was built back in the 60s for Ohio State University to test vehicles, etc. It has a huge 7+ mile oval with many lanes and progressive banking.

Honda was located just down the road from it so they had free reign to use the test facility. Honda had several plants in that area now.There is their engine facility, another car building plant and a motorcycle factory too. I know a few Honda engineers and workers being around racing and car stuff most of my career.

I used to manage our companies graphics shop and we used to do decals and graphics for a bunch of Honda of America engineers that also raced Honda cars. Honda had a program to help them with some bucks and even gave them garage space at the facility.

So one time making a delivery to a guy that was a Rally racer I was going across the bridge that gets you to the inside of the track and a big old Volvo Semi Trailer with all kinds of aero doodads on was whipping under the bridge and there was an Accord tucked up behind it doins some kind of high-speed areo testing or something. Pretty damn cool.

Here is a link about TRC: Ohio TRC