2 comments about Dodge Daytona and Chrysler Laser the Definitive History 1984-1993.

1. Greg McCausey has to be complimented on being the first person in many years to recognize the value of one of the famous extended Chrysler K-cars, and for being able to sell his idea for a book on them to a serious publisher. With the ignorant blogging and mass-market magazine rabble constantly slamming the ol' EEKs with cheap shots, Greg's recognition of the Daytona and lack of sarcasm are refreshingly fresh.
   
   At the time, the Daytona was quite a vehicle -- even the base model got a relatively torquey (compared with similarly sized Japanese and American cars) 2.2 liter engine; the seats were plush and comfortable, the ride smooth, the cornering capable; and the turbocharged engines impressive, from the original Turbo I (sans intercooler) right up to the 224-hp Turbo III and variable-nozzle, no-waiting-for-power Turbo IV. To his credit, McCausey not only covers all these options, but discusses them realistically, including both strengths and weaknesses. In many car books, only the top engine option gets real coverage, and any deficiencies are smoothed over; but not here.
   
   The book is fairly long, at 179 pages, with an incredible number of details, most (but by no means all) of which came from various web sites including allpar, the Shelby Dodge site, and the writer's own moparautos.com. Much of that is taken up by tables of options, clearly moved into a word processor straight from the Web; this book has a number of hallmarks of the self publisher, and appears to have been reproduced via laser printer. The color photography is reproduced well, but the black and white photography suffers from "laser printer syndrome" and some of the scans have clear JPEG artifacts; on the other hand, other photos are quite clear and well reproduced. Many, if not most, of the photos were taken at auto shows, so the average photo is moderately cluttered and has the hood up; and quite a few cars have "not quite stock" items, such as different wheels, paint variations, etc. Some of the cars didn't have the interior cleaned before shots were snapped, and aftermarket stereos were not uncommon. If the reader looks at the photography as covering decades-old daily drivers, these shortcomings are not an issue, but those seeking a restoration guide might want to exercise caution.
   
   (other details are at the full version of this review over on allpar.com)
   
   The book integrated existing sources (and possibly new information) to make an easy to read history of cars that were critically acclaimed and fairly innovative when they first hit the road, and have been forgotten by most people (its owners excepted). Yes, there are a few mistakes and some of the photos are what you'd expect from a gifted amateur at a car show, and yes, you can find a lot of this information on the Web. However, the Daytona/Laser book is the best paper-based reference we're ever likely to see on any Chrysler cars of this era; it's well written, in an engaging style, and McCausey pulled in numerous sources to have a fairly well arranged, well documented compilation. It's worth a buy, and it's also a terrific gift for your Daytona-owning friends.



2. As a collector of 1980's Shelby vehicles this book interested me for a number of reasons. I expected to find a wealth of stats and some photos, including some that pertained to the Shelby Daytonas. I was very pleased to find the book goes far beyond that.
   
   When they say definitive history, they mean it. This book tells the story of the G body cars from many angles including original corporate positioning/thinking, how the various models fit into the broader marketplace, what the automotive press was covering at the time, and quotes from former employees/designers. You can actually read this book cover to cover and learn a good deal about not just Daytonas, but about the people and mindset of both Chrysler and Detroit in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
   
   The book includes a great amount of detail on the year-by-year changes to the Daytona and Laser. I also liked the tables with production counts of not just models but individual colors and option packages. While most of this is available on the Internet (including the author's website), the ability to have it in book form makes it easier to use as a reference and frankly lends credibility to the stats.
   
   The only fault I can find with the book, and the reason for four stars instead of five, is the lack of authentic images. Most of the photos in the book are exactly what you see on the cover.. cars at swap meets or other shows.. with their hoods up and usually some after-market baubles added. I would have liked to have seen a greater number of images from the original marketing materials, press handouts, magazine spreads, and so on. There are a few (i.e. pages 14, 20, 36, 51, 60) but they are low-resolution scans and mostly black & white. I understand that the author was likely constrained to using mainly his own photos due to licensing or copyright issues.. however in future printings perhaps Chrysler would be so kind as to offer up images from their archive to be used without royalties in the book.
   
   I think the author deserves a large amount of credit for capturing this information on an oft-overlooked segment of automotive history. With fuel prices as high as they are today, younger collectors may look at the gas-guzzling V8's of the 1970's and decide instead to move into the relatively fuel-efficient, yet high-performance turbo-4's of the 1980's. This book helps place these cars in context and demonstrates how they were the forerunners to the modern high-performance/high-mpg cars in showrooms today.
   
   In summary, this is a solid effort and a book worth purchasing if you have an interest in late 1980's performance cars or 1980's/1990's Detroit in general.

2 comments about Chrysler: Full-Size Trucks 1967-88 (Chilton's Total Car Care Repair Manual).

1. Hey, I need a repair manual for a full size Dodge Puck-up truck Year 1999 for 24 value diesel engine. Have you got or will have in the future?



2. The year is not new enough. When I had that year Vehicle it was ok. I have a '98 Quad Cab, and Trannie went out, I wanted to research it. Cant find a book. My wife has a '98 quad cab and the trannie went. The front wheel bearings are supposed to be greasable in my V-10, Need to find out how to do that. Need the book. Asked for one from the Library, but nothing has come back yet. thanks Mike

2 comments about Chrysler.

1. This is a nice coffee table book but short on content if you are looking for any real information on the history of Chrysler and the related marques.

   You can't cover all that history in a large print book with a few color photos. I was looking for production numbers, VIN codes, engine information. Almost none of that here.

   If you are buying a gift for a Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth or DeSoto fan, this is not the book. They will already know more than you find here. If you want a few excellent photos and not much content, this is your book.




2. If you're looking to give a history buff or general car enthusiast an interesting and detailed, but concise, book on the history of the Chrysler Corporation, this one is a good choice. Dennis Adler does an excellent job in describing the impact that Chrysler, and its divisions, have had on the world from the company's founding in 1926 to its merger with Mercedes Benz that led to the creation of Daimler Chrysler. He acieves this by describing each era important to the company's history through eloquent written word and superb photographs. Anyone who is a fan of Chrysler or simply likes cars in general would really appreciate this book. If, however, one were looking for a book with more specific detail into the company's history, it would be hard to do so in anything less than a full-length novel. Furthermore, if it is an individual vehicle from Chrysler that one is into, then this probably isn't the right book, especially if that person is looking for detailed technical information on specific vehicles. This is a book of history, not a technical manual that you would find at Pep Boys.

4 comments about MOPAR Muscle: 50 Years.

1. A general look at Chrysler performance cars from the past and present with splendid photographs (courtesy of David Newhardt). The book looks at all the muscle/pony cars that Chrysler developed and built over the past 50 years and discusses each models development and year-to-year changes. As well, the author, to his credit, did not lament over the past and all that was lost (as some authors do) but instead also discussed new and exciting models Chrysler had been releasing over the past couple of years (300C, Crossfire, etc). And did I mention the photos were fantastic? However, the book does have some failings and it's mostly due to the writing and the layout. Although the author should be credited on giving a comprehensive view of Chrysler's performance cars (new and old), his actual text leaves much to be desired. I found the writing on each model to be quite dull at times as the major focus of the author was only on the model itself (discussing yearly changes and additions to the option list) and not on the actual industry and trends that inspired their development. I found that very little was spoken of Chrysler's competitors who had major impacts on the models Chrysler created and released. Paragraphs detailing year-to-year changes just didn't make for exciting reading (I'm sure there are technical books which would give more comprehensive detail on the yearly differences between models if that were ones desire). This was especially apparent when the earlier models were being discussed. By the time the author arrived to the present however, he had begun providing more details as to the how's and whys of each new models development. This was, again, to his credit. The other issue I had was that I found most of the pictures did not match up to the text (regardless of how dull it was). For example, the author was discussing the Chrysler 300G to L but only provided pictures of the 300F (about a dozen pictures of the same model taken at different angles). Another was where the author showed a number of pictures of the '69 `Cuda 440 but only dedicates one sentence to the car (which basically said the car was offered in '69). Although I do understand the difficulty in aligning photographs and in fact even obtaining some photos, I still believe more effort was needed here. There is nothing more frustrating then to be looking at photographs that are almost 10 years behind the text as well as reading about models with no available pictures (maybe I've never seen a 300L before). Overall, the book does a decent job of covering all the major models and providing a reasonable amount of detail. The pictures were excellent and there was some decent textual coverage of the models. It just got a little tedious after a while.



2. what can I say? WOW.... this is a very nice book with hundred of color pictures and lots of great info.... a must of all true MOPAR guys.



3. I loved Randy Leffingwell's Mustang and Corvette anniversary books and praised them in my site reviews. I was attracted to Mopar Muscle since I wasn't as familiar with the Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth sport coupe and sedan lines from the 1950s to the '70s as I was with Chevys, Fords, and Pontiacs.
   
   Robert Genat takes off where Randy Leffingwell left off. Genat has a lot on his shoulders writing this book. Mopar Muscle looks at not one, but many vehicles offered by Chrysler for a half-century. Genat has a lot to pack into a hardcover book and he does the job ably.
   
   Genat starts with the Chrysler C-300 and its founding role for muscle cars. From there, Genat looks at Dodge and Plymouth offerings in the late 1950s and early 1960s and takes a big bulk of the book writing about the famous Mopar machines from the middle 1960s to the early 1970s in great detail.
   
   Genat has some weaknesses. Genat focuses on the classic Mopar lines from the 1950s to the early '70s and, from there, skips over to the Viper in the early '90s. Genat overlooks almost two decades of weakened, but important machines. He does not mention the 1970s and '80s Chargers, the Chrysler/Shelby projects, or the 1990s Stealth and Talon. Genat also fails to mention much about Chrysler's racing efforts. The book ends short before recent SRT efforts and the new Charger. The photography is excellent, but the variety is severely lacking. You could be reading about a Barracuda and have page after page of only Chargers.
   
   Genat has a fine book. It's not perfect, but when are books ever? Mopar Muscle may not live up to the light the way Leffingwell's books did, but he does a good job nevertheless.



4. Having read the somewhat mediocre reviews on this site I've decided to order the paperback edition, but was so thoroughly impressed by the contents and presentation that I traded it in for the large format hardcover edition.
   
   Having purchased most of the books on american cars published by Motorbooks (Mustang, Corvette, Chevy SS, Camaro to name a few) I can confidently state that this book stands with the best of them. The organization is very nice, with chapters arranged by Mopar body types (B-bodies, E-bodies, etc.) and manages to provide a nice coverage of each topic without overwhelming the reader with unnecessary technicalities. The photography is simply superb, in the best Motorbooks tradition.
   
   The book covers all of the landmark Mopar muscle cars, the Viper and some of the most recent efforts. However, do not expect to find information on newest SRT-8s, Chargers/Magnums etc as the book was published before their production started.
   
   Highly recommended not only Mopar fans, but anyone with interest in classic muscle cars.

1 comments about Chrysler LHS, Concorde, 300M & Dodge Intrepid, '98'00 (Haynes Automotive Repair Manual Series).

1. This book is probally the most valuable tool you can own in your tool box. The manual covers not only full engine overhaul but also tune up procedures and general maintance.

   The manual is laid out very well and allows those with little or no car experience to easily perform numerous tasks and trouble shoot problems they may have.

   You can't go wrong at the price because even if you use it once it's more than paid for itself.

No comments about Haynes Repair Manual Chrysler Cirrus Dodge Stratus and Plymouth Breeze 95 - 00.

3 comments about Standard Catalog of Chrysler, 1914-2000 (Standard Catalog of Chrysler).

1. A great resource with almost TOO much info to devote alot of print to each car. Lists production numbers, and brings back alot of memories. For having so many models, the book does quite well. Also, nice histories of each Chrysler brand, incl DeSoto, Eagle, and Imperial. Lots of pictures of just about every car listed.
   I recommend it as a great overview of Chrysler's developement.



2. Okay for general information. Covers too many years for details about any one model or year.



3. The information inside this book are great for reference and cross reference. Not much in the way of pictures but it catalogs the history and the working parts of the cars.

5 comments about The Critical Path: Inventing an Automobile and Reinventing a Corporation.

1. Judging by Brock Yates' work as an "Editor at large" for Car and Driver magazine, one would expect witty, to-the-point writing in this book-- especially when one considers that discussing automobiles (more specifically, the gestation and development of a particularly important one) is what he excells at.

   However, after trudging through the seemingly endless reworded repetitions of previously mentioned facts, poorly formed sentences, and numerous instances of completely unfactual statements, I was left with a lessened view of the man's talents.

   There is a smattering of interesting information here, though, so those with an interest in the automobile industry would do themselves a favor to pick this up and slog through the poor stuff to get to the nuggets.

   Yates has spent a lot of his outstanding career bemoaning, justifiably, the lack of quality in various automobiles. His effort in the book, however, makes him seem as a bit of a hypocrite, unfortunately, and my previously high opinion of the man's work has lessened.

   I felt used after reading this. Shame on you, Yates.




2. As you will find out if you read this book, Iacocca was not a car guy - he was a businessman, a "mogul" in the business of cars.

   This book provides a counterpoint to the Iacocca books, from a different viewpoint: from within the engineering and production "trenches".

   No only does Yates chronicle the development of the third generation minivan; he chronicles with it the transformation of the Chrysler Corporation.

   Adequately written, very insightful. Incredible access to what transpired at Chrysler during this time.

   Recommended. Especially for minivan owners or prospective buyers.




3. As the owner of a 2000 Dodge Caravan I feel it is a special treat to learn the story of my car's design and creation, from conception to labor and delivery. The book is well written, and the story is told in such a way that it riveted my attention from beginning to end. Mr. Yates is highly qualified having spent an entire career as an automotive journalist, and in my opinion it shows. In cases where I was familiar with the facts being discussed, his story agrees with the facts I was familiar with. This book is top notch in my opinion - 5 stars.



4. We've owned four Caravan / Voyagers, so I had a distinct curiosity about the book's subject. The book was interesting when describing the design issues involved with "the vehicle that saved Chrysler/Plymouth/Dodge". The book gives a good feel for the business end of the big bucks car industry, trying to guess what world economy and whim of the American buyer will sell cars five years down the road.
   Brock Yates' writing style lends itself better to one page editorial writing or brief commentary within specifications laden car articles. He KNOWS the subject but has a boring style. Overall, though the subject to me was worth finishing the book.
   John Row



5. Poorly written and edited, lacking factually, and aggravatingly repetitive. Very disappointing, given Mr. Yates' considerable writing skill evidenced in his Car & Driver editorials.

5 comments about Guts: The Seven Laws of Business That Made Chrysler the World's Hottest Car Company.

1. I really enjoyed GUTS. I am a Design Engineering Manager and appreciated Lutz's straight to the point style. Today I am buying a copy for my brother who is also a product development engineer. My job is to drive change in my company. Lutz's book helped me clarify my vision and get on with reaching my goals. His advice is clear, useful and simple.



2. Former Chrysler president and vice-chairman Robert A. Lutz proves that sometimes a corporate leader can write a terrific book (it just doesn't happen very often). If Lutz ever decides to get out of the corporate arena entirely, he would make a fabulous comedian. Known as a colorful and brilliant leader ever since he turned Chrysler around in the early `90s, he shares the ideas that saved the company as well as others he believes could help any organization succeed. Lutz is direct, holds nothing back and points out the lunacy behind most corporate decisions. We [...] think of him as the Dennis Miller of corporate honchos. He fills his how-to book with plenty of examples from his Chrysler days, making it a provocative page-turner that any businessperson can relish.



3. Part autobiography and part business advice. People who read this book for the 7 laws will get their money's worth. Although that particular section accounts for 25 or 30% of the book, Lutz explains his positions with exceptional clarity and detail. His anecdotes and examples are right on the money. When he goes beyond the business world and into social commentary, he starts sounding a bit out of touch, although it is nice to hear a corporate type who takes a stand at the risk of offending.

   Where the book misses is in the spotty autobiography. Lutz's essay and the forward by Bob Eaton make much of the fact that he is a vegetarian, an ex-marine, Berkley alum and former reprobate who did not finish high school till age 22, yet went on to success in every arena in his life thereafter, but then he doesn't bother to explain much about his past, except the Marine part. As long as he takes the time to prescribe remedies to the state of the modern educational and legal systems, the apparently disparate aspects of his life deserve philosophical explanations, too.

   Those who buy books just to peruse the laws promised in the title (perhaps Lutz wrote this book for such people) will get their money's worth. Those with the discipline to read a whole book will want a separate biography.




4. What inspired me to buy this book was a review of it on television which included the title of one of the chapters: "The Customer Isn't Always Right." With a CEO who thinks like that, you know it has to be a good read. Lutz explains his common sense approach to leadership in business, which could apply to any field outside of business as well. A must-buy.



5. One gets the impression that the ghostwriter had very little contact with Lutz professionally or personally.

5 comments about Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape.

1. I do not know nor have I ever met Mr. Manso. I think he has written a better than average book that is entertaining, enlightening and sadly disturbing. Let me first point out that the negative reviews here have no substance. They more resemble hysterical reactions of bratty children caught misbehaving than book reviews written by intelligent adults. They do not cite examples from the book itself to take issue with but rather rely on emotional name-calling and imaginary conclusions arrived at without any support. Manso wrote a fine book the facts of which are mostly in the public domain and independently verifiable to anyone taking real issue.
   
   Peter Manso discusses Provincetown's history, evolution and devolution of one of the most exciting and interesting cities of the world. As a straight man that has fallen in love with Provincetown over 15 years ago, I am very grateful to Mr. Manso for pointing out some of Provincetown's current problems. I have considered buying a house there and living in it year round. But after reading it and some of the reviews here on Amazon, Manso's critique has been thoroughly confirmed. It seems that there are people who hate the idea of tolerance even while pretending to be "politically correct." They seem to reject heterosexuals and homosexuals living, working and playing side by side.
   
   Tolerance is for me an extremely important quality in the town I wish to live in for the rest of my life. However, it seems to be undesirable to some. According to at least one reviewer, paranoid militant lesbians have launched an attack on not just heterosexuals who have the audacity to want to live or even just visit P-town, but even on homosexuals who don't pledge allegiance to the party line. The reviewer is a male homosexual.
   
   One of Provincetown's most endearing qualities to me has been its tolerance and willingness to live and let live. I have loved its rejection of mindless mainstream mores. That may sadly be going the way of most other American towns that have an "us against them mentality." It is ironic that gays and lesbians that have been on the receiving end of the discrimination stick would now turn into reverse bigots. What a great way to insure more fear and hate! Bravo! You have thrown down the gauntlet to those homophobes for whom your exclusivity fulfills their prophecies.
   
   On my last visit to Provincetown I stopped into a real estate office and confirmed Manso's allegations of property values driving out the very people that have been born there and who welcomed the wealthy gays who now seem set on throwing out the poor Portuguese, painters, writers and anyone else who can't afford the rent they are now setting.
   
   My wife and I have a number of gay and lesbian friends. One of them has told me a number of times how he dislikes many gays and lesbians that want contact with only homosexuals. I didn't really believe that many homosexuals were like that. I couldn't understand how he believed that let alone that it might be true. After reading Manso's book and the reviews it has inspired I have come to see what my friend is talking about. Perhaps some gays and lesbians do want a town exclusively homosexual. All I can say to them is beware what you wish for! Segregation has never produced anything good thing.



2. While at some points wildly historically innacurate, I might be the best person to review this book other than Mr Manso himself. I know, on a first name basis, everyone who was profiled most heavily in that book, and I have met Mr Manso on several occasions. I lived there untill my father and I had to move last year because of heavily rising property taxes.
   
   The book is, as a whole- exaggerated. And yes, Manso is run out of town, and almost universally disliked. He's a nice person, but after airing everyone's dirty laundry, he has to deal with the consequences.
   His comments on the gay community have been overblown. Millionaires have blown out me, my friends and family out of the town. The Millionaires happent o be- gay. I would be saying the same thing if the millionaires were straight, mind you.
   
   On the whole, a lot of people's reviews of this book got me upset. My town isn't a lesson to be learned- sure, many of the things I grew up with have come and gone, like ice cream and fast food joints owned my what's his name Silva and such, but if all one can see is the psycolgical changes in the make-up of the place, then- you're not looking close enough.
   The sun sets the same way, and the monument will always get dressed up around Thanksgiving, and there will always be the ocean. Long after Provincetown becomes a Gays only Utopia, you will find the ocean, and the light and all that makes it beautiful.



3. I don't think the point of Manso's book is homophobic, but I do think it is prejudiced. Manso is prejudiced in favor of the bohemian strain of Provincetown history in which artists (straight and gay, American and foreign) came to Provincetown as a refuge from the "square" world and, more or less, managed to co-exist with the native Yankees and Portugese. Because bohemians strike an egalitarian pose, whether or not they are wealthy (and many Provincetown bohemians were very wealthy), the bohemian dominance of Provincetown for most of the 20th century had a leveling influence. A wealthy Portugese fisherman or Yankee businessman's home would not seem much different from that of a wealthy artist like Robert Motherwell.
   
   Those who know Provincetown, as Manso certainly does, knows that there was an informal "cap" on ostentation. If you owned an old sea captain's home from the 19th century, you could fix it up just so (and you were almost expected to), whether you were rich enough to live in it yourself for two months in the summer only, or whether you ran it as a gay guesthouse year-round. If you were a wealthy art dealer from New York, you could build a lovely waterfront home in the East End, but God forbid it should look showy (except for the garden), or dwarf the converted sail loft next door.
   
   Manso's point, I think, is that this changed when people began to purchase real estate in Provincetown both as a financial investment and as a manifestation of their own financial success-conspicuous consumption. That Provincetown had remained largely free of this for most of the 20th century, while the Hamptons, Jackson Hole, and other destinations became bloated with ostentation, was a perverse product of the dominant bohemian class. What Manso may not make clear enough is that the dominance of this class was an anomaly; it couldn't last. Eventually, somebody or some group was going to decide that Provincetown was THE PLACE to display its financial success, just as the bohemians declared in the 1910s and 20s that Provincetown was THE PLACE to let it all hang out. Because real estate is the dominant financial market of the late 20th and early 21st century, and Provincetown is one of those places that only has a little bit of it (like Key West, like Manhattan, like the Hollywood Hills) this unstoppable trend inevitably had to manifest itself in the real estate market. And, as Manso points out, a small number of millionaires can quickly crush the affordable housing market in a physically tiny place like Provincetown; it takes longer in a place like Manhattan or Santa Fe.
   
   Really, Manso's book is an elegy to a simpler-or simply stupider-time in which bohemians (first socialists, then beats, then hippies, then a more punky strain, and ALWAYS gays and lesbians) ruled the cultural life of Provincetown. As Manso points out in the cautionary tales of Ciro Cozzi and Tony Jackett, those who were of this world put art, booze, drugs, good times, and sex (not necessarily in that order) above maximizing the value of their real estate. Not so the new class of wealthy gays for whom real estate in Provincetown is the point. I think the book does a pretty good job of making it clear that these gays feel Provincetown is THEIR town, and since real estate is what matters to them (and everybody else, these days) there is no more sincere form of flattery than to develop great digs in Ptown.
   
   Crusty dune poets like Harry Kemp may spin in their graves in the new Provincetown, but the reality is that anyone today who could be transported back to the Provincetown Tennis Club in its heyday in the 1970s would have laughed at the mixed doubles played by aging communists and second tier abstract expressionist painters with lesbian photographers and hippie Jewish real estate millionaires from the Upper West Side on a dusty, pitted court with tumbledown chicken wire fences. All of this presided over by the slicked-back male pulchritude of the PhD pro, Chris Busa. These people WANTED Provincetown this way, and as long as they dominated Provincetown, they could keep it this way. But the fact is that they started to die-of old age and AIDS-and a younger group took over. That group thinks the funky Tennis Club sucks. And they are right; it really is a joke. There are better tennis courts at many minimum security prisons. Trying to explain to them why the Tennis Club was actually great in its own weird way, is like trying to explain why you loved your first junior high boyfriend or girlfriend. You eventually learn that you should just not bother. Peter Manso did bother in Ptown, and I think he should get some credit for that effort, and not simply be branded a homophobe, which is hardly the point of this book.
   
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4. I suspect all the negative reviews of Ptown were written by Norman Mailer, under various pseudonyms. His hatred of Manso and the book is legendary. But this is a great work. As someone who's been coming to Cape Cod for the last 52 years I have seen the change for the worse that Ptown (yes, we call it that) has undergone. The funky, free-spirited town where everyone does his/her thing as long as no one gets hurt has been replaced by a sort of gay Disneyland. Thank you, Mr. Manso, for telling the world about this.
   
   To borrow a phrase from the book, Manso isn't homophobic, he's wealthophobic. Sure, new money and the people who own it are ruining Cape Cod from the canal to Race Point. The fact that those who are ruining Ptown are gay is just coincidence. Let's not even get into the gross environmental destruction they're laying (or trying to lay) on that fragile strip of sand. What they are bringing to the town is ostentation and bloated self-importance at the expense of others, including fellow gays. A gang of rich bullies should not have the power to destroy a way of life. Let this be a lesson for any other non-conformist town that values things as they are.



5. Peter Manso is an incredible Jerk who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. But, I salute him for his fight against the Truro Police Dept mafia. Fight the good fight brother! Spend that trust fund on the legal injustices of the the TPD!