Fat boy

["Mahoney, John" <jmahoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since I've got a few minutes between eating at a 5:30 reception (after
eating at a 3:00 coffee break) and eating at an 8:00 dinner --- no wonder
America needs big trucks with big buckets (seats, not chicken) and big fuel
supplies --- I'll use them.  If not wisely.

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My sorry attempt at starting a webpage
http://209.105.133.60/~superglider/ <http://209.105.133.60/%7Esuperglider/>

feedback appreciated
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Nice (and easier to navigate than earlier photo album format), but '66 blue
carpet thumbnails open nice views of a '69 copper hardtop.  Oops.

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Regarding the 'brochures are printed early' scenario, the
1972 brochure also specifically states buckets are a two-
door-only option. So it didn't change between early in the
1971 model year and early in the 1972 model year. I'd say
it's safe to assume it remained that way through the entire
1971 model year.
<<

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Out of the "factory" 1971 American Motors Data Book - section 4 page 24:
Individual reclining seats optional on all models but the vinyl buckets
option were listed as available only on the 2dr hardtops.
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High-back shell buckets in Uganda vinyl were optional on '71 Mat and Ambo
hardtops, while vinyl or fabric were optional on Brougham.  Armrest and
console were both packaged and stand-alone option on Mat, but on Ambo
Brougham, "fold-down armrest and center console, or cushion" was the sales
spec.  Black, blue, green or tan vinyl still available on hardtop buckets in
'72 (not SST) with armrest/cushion included.  Console option was fluid and
by '73, going the way of pillar-less Ambassador.

Swell-styled Shift-Command on console (available for all V-8 hardtops in
'71) was AMC's ticket to sporting luxury; a green-on-green (with tan vinyl
top, IIRC) Ambo 401 two-door, trimmed to the hilt with optional wood-grain
rim-blow sports wheel (pencil jokes only if you lost your AMC historian
card, please) to match woodgrain shifter handle and in-painted custom covers
for the wheels (to evoke the classic chrome-spoke-on-gloss-black '30s wire
wheel) made an elegant presentation; an American Jaguar before its grille
was "Benzed," its dashboard "Airtemped," and its bumper outed for safety.
It was the most classic of any Ambassador since 1969 and the most classic of
what few more hardtop Ambassadors (modernized seats!) there would be.  It
had an armrest and console.   

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I've got every damn
brochure, stockholder's report and TSM I own spread
all over my office floor!! What a MESS!!!
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Really?  Sounds like a nice party to me.

>>
My sorry attempt at starting a webpage
http://209.105.133.60/~superglider/ <http://209.105.133.60/%7Esuperglider/>

feedback appreciated
<<

Nice (and easier to navigate than earlier photo album format), but '66 blue
carpet thumbnails open nice views of a '69 copper hardtop.  Oops.

Better go walk around the block a few times; otherwise I won't be ready to
eat again in an hour.

Maybe I'll have time for AMC-in-media next week.  Or maybe I'll be gone in
under 6 seconds --- in my new Ford GT.  (Inside joke; tee hee.)