I think all of those smart French component engineers who understood metallurgy and stuff like that migrated to the French automobile industry to build Citroens, Renaults and Peugeots. By the way, anybody know of a French car that is imported into the U.S. now? Hmmmm, for that matter, how many Italian cars are imported into the U.S. now.......I'm still searching for classic content on this, but ......Lou Deeter, Orlando FL