AM Zzzzs

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

My only AM-Xposure is reading the list online, so when it went AWOL, I
guessed that this final vestige of the Big-4 of another day was finally
dead.  Dug up the latest iteration of the other on-and-off AM organ, read
Farna postings(nothing on where list had gone), remembered that AM biz
wasn't show biz and left.  No idea what anyone wrote since Friday.  My 6/10
"Hot Topics" will be ice cold when (if?) they ever [re-] appear.

Zombie zone.


"AMC: 1979 [!] Hornet, beautiful 5,000 (five thousand) original miles..."
(followed by a 716 AC [somewhere in the Buffalo, NY area] phone number)

- 7/05 HMN ad.

Zombie zone.


"The aerodynamic Taurus saved Ford in 1985, despite being so different some
Ford vice presidents couldn't stand it, even as it rolled off the assembly
line."

(They'd been dead since Pacer rolled off the assembly line for MY 1975.)

"The Big Three have a proud history of saving themselves from bankruptcy
with groundbreaking products the competition needs years to imitate."

(Like Pacer, groundbreaking product, only for want of a GM rotary...)

(And DMC-12, groundbreaking product, only for want of a GM V-8...)

- 5/05 WAW ed.

Zombie zone.


"These days American Motors is but a vague memory, and not necessarily a
pleasant one.  Those few American Motors-built vehicles that are still on
the road today include battered, old Jeeps and tatty Renault-based
Alliances, rusting their way toward oblivion, certainly not the stuff of
automotive legend."

- Jack Nerad (Studio One host, book writer, former editor of Motor Trend and
Automotive Age) in 2003.  He also looks out and ahead in June, 2005.

http://www.visionaryvehicles.com/index.html

Zombie zone?


These days American Motors is but a "vaguer" memory than Studebaker

http://www.forbes.com/home/columnists/2005/06/14/generalmotors-buick-discont
inuation-cz_jf_0614flint.html

and Buick is headed toward the same once-great-marque grave as Nash.

Zombie zone?


These days American Motors, if remembered, may be recalled as "Rambler."

Fitting --- or funny --- depending on vanishing point of your memories:

Do you own a "Rambler" dating to the muscle car '60s?

Do you want a ramble from Newport Beach to Napa to LA?

Do you enjoy the best in meals, lodging and auto museums?

Do you enjoy some drag racing and concours visiting also?

Good.  You have 2 weeks to join 49 cars and save 500 bucks.    

http://www.musclecar1000.com/html/about_us.html

http://www.musclecar1000.com/


Do you wonder where some of American Motors' style began?

http://www.velocetoday.com/events/events_93.php


Do you wonder where a once-American American Motors went?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/12/AR2005061201
553.html


Do you wonder what to give or receive on Father's Day?

http://www.parksidepublications.com/villadeste.html


Do you wonder where car heaven-on-earth may be then?

http://prosportsinc.com/shareholders/uploads/Concours_Ad(1).jpg

Perfect place for "Rambler mentality."

No admission charge.

(Tut, Tut...)

AMC ya there.