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pscot

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2. This isn't really new

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Jan 21, 2015, 02:04 PM

Jan 2015

For decades people have installed Glass Pack mufflers because they sound "cool". If fact Glass Pack used to sell one called Honey Tone IIRC. Marketers have always sold the sizzle rather than the steak.

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