Gurin v. General Motors Corp.

Deen, Presiding Judge.

In the spring of 1980 appellant Dr. Gerry Gurin purchased from an Alabama automobile dealership a Pontiac Grand Prix automobile as a birthday gift for his daughter, appellant Jody Gurin, then a junior at the University of Georgia. In early April, at the end of her spring break, Jody drove the car from Atlanta to Athens, Georgia, and used it daily there for nearly two months, experiencing no problem with it other than occasional difficulty in starting the engine. An Athens Pontiac dealer worked on this problem several times at no charge and apparently resolved it to…