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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
When these motors first came in the kit, many of us started calling them Chalupa (us old guys can't learn new languages very well.) and that is the way I will refer to them. To know them is to love them, Chalupas forever.
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Believe it or not, when I first heard the company's name, I thought they were American Indian: "Chippewa"
It took me a long time to actually FIND them because I was misspelling their name. At the time, I was working with Delphi and wanted to use them on a Power Liftgate application. The Delphi gig fell through, but I put Charlie Jost at FIRST in touch with them and the rest is history...
Eventually I discovered that their American name only sounded like the American Indian Tribe but in fact it was an Americanization of 2 Chinese characters: Chia and Phua... ...put together, they were "Chiaphua." Even the guys who worked for the company pronounced their America name as a homonym of "Chippewa."
Anyway, shortly after they started working with FIRST, they started going by the initials of their full name. Chiaphua Industrial Motors became CIM. Which we FIRSTer often pronounce "Sim."
It is a long strange trip indeed...
Joe J.