[AMC-List] MI AMC

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

Grille-gazers and pin-stripers should click on lots 0128 and 0130:

http://tinyurl.com/foxkb

That much big bad green should paint them a pretty pair of AMX/3s!

While they are learning car fact$ of life, click on II more AMCs2:

http://www.rmauctions.com/CarList.cfm?SaleCode=JS06#

You should get a charge from one and [(s)lime] green from another.

You would be wet if you don't know the correct AMC/Jeep car names,  

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/weird/weird709.shtml
http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/weird/weird708.shtml 

because your punishment would be to hear Cher singing "Half Breed"

http://thursdays.com/pic200/cher2104k.jpg

and you would NOT be permitted to recline on Basketry Print seats.

http://www.bogleclassiccars.com/objects/cars/amcpacer/interior5.jpg

Chris will want to correct one of the captions on his Pacer photos,

http://faculty.concord.edu/chrisz/hobby/75-Pacer-1.html

because "Teague" is -Chapin- in that fastback-with-speedlines pose.


Since what is not on the web is in print, what's new with old AMC?

In the Spring '06 MCR, there is no AMC --- not even in their '60s-'70s induction article --- and no explanation.  Maybe AMC didn't build cars with carburetors then or maybe their restoration article didn't accept that AMC people restore "grills" rather than -grilles-.  In any event: another issue of another "everyman" magazine that forgot good old AMC.

In 5-6/06 HMN, a '75 Matador (that's an AMC, right?) in "Reminiscing" (page 56) was "never seen again" and "you won't get rich" collecting CJ/Wrangler (page 24-25 with a so-seventies AMC publicity photo), and you wouldn't even know American Motors was once a wagon power because there's absolutely no mention of old AMC in a piece on "Ford's Nutty 'Magic Doorgate'" (what was so nutty about a better idea?) on page 74.

Great grilles (p. 76-77); they don't know how to spell in AMC either!

But they do know how to sell advertising: for a '68 AMX (resto) asking $45,000 (408 AC), for a '69 SC/R (old resto) asking $29,500 (405 AC), and for a '77 Grem (26k, orig) asking only $4,800 (937 AC).  You want photos?  You pays 5 bucks.  (AMC people apparently don't yet have e-mail...)

Oh well, that's AMC.

"The first pictures of a new car appeared in 'Motor World' in December 1921 and the three vehicles displayed at the New York Automobile Show comprised the entire output to that date.  The event, in which ninety-two car manufacturers displayed their marques, occupied four floors at the Grand Central Palace, decorated with red velvet and gold trimmings."

So much for history.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to list nine new names among them --- and, since no mission should be impossible --- to decide which of them would eventually have some relevance to good old Nash-AMC.

If you can't answer, you just could -explode-.

Dum, dum, dum-duh, dum, dum; dum-duh dum dum.

Bad-da dum.  Ba-da dum.  Ba-da dum.  Dum-MEE?

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