[AMC-List] Showing at WPC Show?

["Larry R. Daum" <mramc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Showing at WPC Show?

Bill, By all means go to the WPC show. I've met some of these guys and they 
are not a bad bunch of people. The Windy City AMC club will probably have a 
few cars there. I was to a meet very much like it , in about the same 
location a couple years ago. One of the Mopar guys has a an Australia 
Charger UTE ( el Camino style pickup) and Australian Charger . I had an 
interesting chat with him on how he got the Australian cars into the 
country. The one thing I due find about the Mopar guys is they seem to like 
big cars and to a degree do not care much for smaller cars. Most of your 
Mopar people are into the Road Runner / Cuda type performance cars. You 
just don't see many collecting six cylinder Valiants ! Any way here is the 
web site for the Chicago Mopar Connection which runs most of the Mopar car 
shows in the Chicago  area : http://www.chicagolandmopar.com/index.asp 
Chicago Land Mopar Connection .


I've got one other comment to make on the last couple days comments re: 
Chrysler . A number of people seem to blame  Chrysler for AMC  demise . I 
contend that AMC was long dead before 1987. The last cars per say where 
built in Canada in 1983. After 1983 all you had left was the Eagle Station 
wagon primarily and there was a Corporate edit to market the Eagles as 
Jeeps !!!!! In fact I have factory literature that has the Eagle in with 
the Pickups and Cherokees and rest of the Jeeps . The Eagle was an MPV or 
multi propose vehicle and not per say a car. I've always looked on the 
Chrysler take over as more of a mercy killing of what Ray-not screwed up. 
With Ray not  we got another 7 to 10 years of parts on the shelves. At 
least what ray not did not throw out everything. Chrysler just throw away 
what was not moving, unfortunately most of the old AMC parts where not 
moving. And Yes it was probably a mistake to close down Kenosha car 
production, especially with 7 months of backorders on the books for Police 
cars , primarily. Chrysler was going broke again and even though the 
workers had a pretty standard Chrysler type contract by 1987 the oldest 
plant went first. thanks , Larry R. Daum


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