And, as she explains in her MySpace profile, she likes Burger King, Estee Lauder cosmetics and Ford Mustangs.

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"There's a sense of ownership, " says employee Jimmie A. Pierce, something he never felt during his 14 years at a Lear factory building seats for Ford Mustangs and minivans.

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"There's a sense of ownership, " says employee Jimmie A. Pierce, something he never felt during his 14 years at a Lear (nyse: LEA - news - people ) factory building seats for Ford Mustangs and minivans.

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In the early 1960s Regal kept a fleet of eight cherry-red Ford Mustangs for its salesmen to rush deliveries a practice that continues to this day, though with buses, planes and trucks, and which came in handy during the recent UPS strike.

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There are also some notable American-made icons like the 1968 Chevrolet Corvette L88, a couple Shelby Mustangs and that Ford GT40.

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