Go home!

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

As usual, there are not many AMCs in the 3/05 car magazines.  Jock's
probably noted most of them, but in MPH (which has a contest to win a new
Saturn Sky, but the website's not yet operational), "TV Cars" are shown from
several series (including the "Married" Dodge dog), but AMC's Hornet isn't
"Green" --- even in Canader --- (or Hudson) and AMC's rotted floorboard
isn't under the pedal car.  That's a Flintmobile.

In HMN, there's a color photo (61) of a '65 Rambler American sw on deck at
Atlantic City 2/24-27, a report on the '56 Ambassador Custom (p. 67; "We
have little good to say") that sold for $8800 (they thought it worth half
that), or you can buy a 19k-mile '78 Concord sw (in the Buffalo NY area) for
$300 less (67), a '64 990 4-door for $6500 (589), or that '70 Ambo sw ---
that's been looking for a home for HOW long? --- for $1950.

Scrounge further and ye shall see AMC.  Barely.  There are two Ramblers in
3/05 C&D: can you find 'em?  That could depend on your age and eyesight.
Page 60; the good old days of AMC.

Ah, but there's a livin' breathin' AMC in 3/05 Trains.  It's a no-vinyl
monotone blue-green Hornet 4-door that, for those who know what's cool and
what's crapola, looks as classic an Italian design as a Pininfarina Silver
Shadow on pp. 40-41 or their "That '70s Issue."  It was the real AMC in the
real world.  Real in 1975, that is.  Too bad AMC is as irrelevant as the
Erie-Lackawanna (crossing behind it in Wilkes-Barre) today.  Only as history
will either continue to be kept alive. 

http://www.erielackhs.org/

So where's the AMC version?

PS - Re list comment on Sears:

I bought a "whirling" Craftsman iron lawn sprinkler for $2 at a garage sale
about 25 years ago, when, according to its cast date code, it was over 40
years old.  It spun well, but leaked at a brass-on-brass place where no
washer was required, so I went to a Sears store and asked for it to be
repaired.

It couldn't be, of course, so a replacement was requested.  From a $7
plastic model ("No") to a $12 metal ("No again") to a $15 "entry-level"
Craftsman ("Still no"), we discussed the options.  I left with a
top-of-the-line $25 Craftsman heavyweight (parts of which were made in
America) and a new lifetime warranty.  Since irrigation was installed a few
years later, it hasn't been used much and I might not be watering much when
it wears out 40 years from now, so its next owner(s) should take it back to
Sears again also.  That's the best way to keep "American history" alive; to
keep "America" responsible for what and how, it considers "excellence."