Machine age

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

Thanks to Frank for posting Wednesday's note yesterday; let's see if I can re-send Thursday's bounced e-mail today.  If that works, I might find a few minutes to jot a little Friday submission that should arrive before next Tuesday.

Isn't it good that we only write reports on automotive history --- rather than make repairs on orbiting spacecraft? 

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How would DCX design a new "AMX-Marlin" in 2005?

How 'bout Javelin-AMX "bubbles" on front fenders:

http://www.das-projekt.com/DE/das_design_7.html

How 'bout Ambassador "cathedral" taillights also:

http://www.das-projekt.com/DE/das_design_2.html

AMX-circle gas fillers and Marlin-taper trunklid: 

http://digo.ws/2005/06/13/573/

Spirit-shape buckets and "Trendsetting" exhausts.

You got it.  The two-seater best of the DCX best.

http://www.rsportscars.com/foto/05/exelero05_02.jpg
http://www.rsportscars.com/foto/05/exelero05_05.jpg
http://www.rsportscars.com/foto/05/exelero05_06.jpg

Oh yeah, don't forget to mix the most popular color combo from the '65-'66 Marlin with one of the rarer paint combos on the also-rare '70 AMX.

Matador Red and Black meet Shadow Mask --- indoors: 

http://www.rsportscars.com/foto/05/exelero05_inter.jpg
http://www.rsportscars.com/foto/05/exelero05_inter2.jpg

Don't forget the "revival" of that combo on '79 AMX:

http://www.javelinamx.com/javhome/jwr/79amx/050904a.jpg

and a shadow of black still clouding the final 1980: 

http://faculty.concord.edu/chrisz/hobby/80-AMXitems/pictures-80/e80-2/4sp80AMXrf.jpg

But while channeling AMC, don't revive DeLorean;

http://www.wams.de/data/2005/07/31/753204.html

Martha might not be the last billionaire jailed.


AMC is still remembered: 

http://autoweek.com/article.cms?articleId=102742

and AMC is forgotten:

http://forums.autoweek.com/thread.jspa?forumID=228&threadID=18824

(Very few Pacer/Matador/etc. votes cast; are all Gremlins gone?)


AM is in old pictures:

http://info.detnews.com/joyrides/story/index.cfm?id=557

and new picture shows:

http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369895&sdm=web&qtw=640&qth=400

(even if only Linc and Chevy, not Reb, show in the trailer, though...)


Let's play "Know your American motor (or American Motors) trivia"

Q - What make referred to its musclecar as a "Machine" before AMC did?

A - A nameplate about as old as Rambler; not nearly as long gone: Olds!

http://www.yearone.com/serverfiles/headline.asp?hid=Y14AB48323&Style=3

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10076&item=4565739655#ebayphotohosting

It promoted its potent 1969 4-4-2 muscle as a "W-Machine"

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~csimpson/Young_small/W_index.html

and after the 1970 Rebel "Machine" debuted, kept right on.

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~csimpson/Mem/Ads_Large/70_442_1.jpg

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~csimpson/Mem/Ads_Large/70_Olds_1.JPG

(There also was an Olds Ambassador; we'll blow that one off)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7340842316

General Motors obviously wasn't too worried about AMC cars.

http://members.aol.com/JMckea7747/options1.html

But, if you know '71 artwork, AMC was not worried about GM.

Now, if you're still hurtin' for more Hurst-AMC SC/Rambles,

They were the days to restore: kindler, gentler, yet wilder

http://www.webmycar.com/zonecar/books.nsf/RTAwmc?ReadForm&Id=2B1BC39986C18849C1256D32006F75DC

when Tom, Dick, or Linda weren't hurtin' for "fast" rides.

http://www.69olds.com/smothers.html

Even faster and finer musclecars are built in America now:

http://www.fordvehicles.com/cars/mustang/

http://www.dodge.com/charger/

http://www.cadillac.com/cadillacjsp/models/gallery.jsp?model=ctsv

and many, many more.  Where have all the kind people gone?


Oh well.  Here's another question for you all [?] to sleep on:

Q - What 1975 AMC cues did Dick do on a 1950 Cadillac proposal?

(Don't do due diligence on the Pacer; it was drawn for Packard!)


Lube your brain gears; learn something new about AMC.  Have fun.