Subject: Muscle and cars

Subject: Muscle and cars
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:32:32 -0500
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From: "Mahoney, John" <JMahoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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John,

You Post was a great read but I sense a degree of concern and frustration with the situation in the US and the future of our car industry, Rightly so. But, speaking of Concept Cars and the subject of the thread Muscle Cars, I see something happening that is very obvious.

Professional restoration and the recreation of vintage Muscle, Modernization and Full Scale Automotive Art in the private sector has exploded. I can't remember seeing so many Street Rods, restored 60's and 70's Muscle Cars and vintage Hot Rods on modernized chassis and drive trains, as there are today, both on the public roads as well as on the Cable Networks and other media.

We Boomers are buying, building and driving our dreams and an industry is rapidly growing to keep up with this demand. The High Dollar rides such as those auctioned in the desert sold for prices way higher then what similar finds can be had for, just google the internet and there are Dealers with extensive inventory of any thing you want, at any price and in various stages

from needs work, to turn key, including AMC's. I doubt that there is an AMC model type and year that is not currently available, some where, for immediate purchase, with exception to AMX/GT and AMX2. I tired to order an AMX2 in the late 60's when they first hinted that they were coming and the dealer had know idea what I was talking about, wouldn't even offer to call me back ...RATS! Maybe that's why they didn't build it? But that was then this is now and with the current technology who needs new factory built. Just build or restore, or by your own. Maybe there are enough of these old vintage dreams around to take care of those looking for something special, built in the USA and totally unmistakably America Made. Maybe this is our future and a new way.

Doug Novak

68 AMX