Got a Ghia car?

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

Get a Mopar man.  To identify that --- good or gosh-awful --- thing!

>>
but remember tex smith's xr-7, with a rare aluminum slant six - '63/4
iirc.  he was playing with asymmetry and the slant fit the bill.
<<

...but he was playing with a deck dealt earlier by Ex and Ghia (and, FWIW,
in the dustbin of AMC history, revisited when the silver-blue customized
AMX-Gremlin one-off that everyone seems to have forgotten was built by AMC
as well)

If it were a 340 or 440 and didn't have Valiant badges, I'D be there.

If it's a Monica [ya never heard of?] or a Monteverdi, it's VALUABLE.    

If it's a Ghia mule for a Plymouth or Dodge showcar, it's A TREASURE. 

http://www.shorey.net/Auto/American/Chrysler/Plymouth/Explorer/1952%20Plymou
th%20Explorer%20Ghia%20Sport%20Coupe%20green=i.jpg

And if words do not turn into images, it's time for your IMAGINATION.

Low nose?  Mopar motor?  European coachwork?  

http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B33443.jpg

in particular, the one model bodied by Fissore

http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B7257-2.jpg

http://www.tobiasullrich.de/monteverdi/cars/hs375sfi/img6.jpg

that evoked a Duncan McRae-altered Packard Hawk

http://postcardsfromtheroad.net/images/58hawk.jpg

and an Albrecht Goertz-involved Datsun Fairlady

http://www.nissannews.com/multimedia/nd_50_anni/800/production_1969_fairlady
%20z_s30_.jpg

(of whose history Nissan is PROUD)

http://www2.nissan.co.jp/Z/top.html

(a bit more than DC is of its AM heritage)

that Goertz did --- or DID NOT --- design.

http://zhome.com/

(Click around in "The True History" to learn more); why, oh why, can't the
AMC experts do comparably exhaustive --- and interesting --- work?

Uncommon European-American cars from the '60s?  Go, Go.

http://www.carphoto.ch/diverses/monteverdi/DSCN1366.jpg

http://www.carphoto.ch/diverses/monteverdi/DSCN1369.jpg

or the example currently for sale --- in California 

http://www.bdmclassiccars.com/Monteverdi375SSII.html

http://www.tobiasullrich.de/monteverdi/market/375sfi.html

(and for more AMC content, the later three built that were almost proverbial
spitting images of what woulda coulda shoulda been the AMC AMX/3:)

http://www.movit.de/images/monthai0.jpg
http://www.movit.de/images/monthai.jpg

http://www.autosrapidos.com/superautos/m/monteverdi-hai450ss.htm

If you've done a full Monte, dance another Mopar V-8 with Monica

http://pages.infinit.net/amphilot/monica/monica.htm

http://www.oldtimersweb.be/jansartikelen/kleinemerkenmonica.htm

http://www.histomobile.com/1/Monica/1972/350_.htm?lan=1

She, too, is waiting (in California) for your call.

http://www.bdmclassiccars.com/Monica.html

And finally, if you need any more proof that American --- not just American
Motors' --- fans should set their goalposts sosmewhat higher, visit 

http://pboursin.club.fr/autohi3j.htm

http://pboursin.club.fr/auto0.htm

in awe.  Its fiberglass page, alone

http://pboursin.club.fr/pdgcarr2.htm

could shame Americans into reality.  We're second-rate car lovers!

Third rate when we lose what little info is known.  6/10-15 posts?

Ralph asked for volunteers; that AMC knowledge bin is still empty.

Someday, there may be no new info to lose: AMC dead/AMC fans dumb?
 
When the Dodge Challenger returns (as it will for MY 2009), "Javelin" will
be mostly one word in the press release about pony-muscle-era roots.  That
Mercedes Mopar (with, of course, available V-8 HEMI) will join Mustang
(~200,000 units for 2005) in making money on nostalgia.  And as
AMX/Javelin/SC/Rambler/Machine/SC/360 prices continue to rise, AMC fans will
be happy.  "Camaro" will be revived; "T-bird" will again fly.  Life in
America will be exactly like it was when AMC was alive.

In our imagination.

Time to drive home in my new 2005 Pierce-Arrow --- one of the best cars

still built in Buffalo NY --- or in the world.