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From: joey mercado <joebx@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: pass side full 1/4 68-70 amx Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 20:45:31 -0400 Size: 2293 Url: http://www.amc-list.com/pipermail/amc-list/attachments/20060526/cf34f8e2/attachment.mht ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:00:15 -0700 From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> Subject: [AMC-List] testing, please ignore To: amc-list <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <1148662814.31905.8.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain (Made list changes, ensuring success.) ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 14:20:19 -0400 From: "Richard Estermyer" <javelinman74@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [AMC-List] Springfield... Ohio that is! To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <BAY106-F2981E0FCFD7882FCC685F9DD9E0@xxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Maybe I missed it but I will be at Springfield, Ohio this weekend for the AMC show within a show at the fairgrounds. Every year it is a great show and worth the trip. Car show, AMC vendors all together and they who knows what you can find at the rest of the show. "Clark County Fairgrounds off I-70, Exit 59 Between Columbus and Dayton May 26th 27th & 28th 126 Acre event 2500 Vendor spaces" My "garage sale prices to clear out the toys and remaining t-shirts. MAYBE regroup and redo it but not right away. Hope to see you there! Richard Richard Estermyer 6235 S. Mohawk Avenue Ypsilanti, MI 48197 734.483.5187 evenings 734.216.9003 cell javelinman74@xxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 12:51:38 -0700 (PDT) From: russ hathaway <russh97309@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [AMC-List] hood release pull To: amc-list@xxxxxxx Message-ID: <20060526195138.70119.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 the Jav looks like the 77 Hornet I just pulled off the AMX yesterday. Any difference? I have one in good shape and don't like inside pulls, anyone want this one.....Russ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:18:09 -0400 From: "Mahoney, John" <jmahoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [AMC-List] Remember to read... To: <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <E8DF38ACFC17F94998DE284C5CE4582A02202BB0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" If you don't drive a real Rambler, drive a Rave Raffle. Meaning Tom J: http://electricgiraffe.com/ (Meaning remember reports on his road trip to last year's Burning Man!) >> One minor thing John, after about 240 words, you never did say what the sticker said... << If you don't read all the way to the -end-, read again. Meaning Arfon: >> http://faculty.concord.edu/chrisz/hobby/67-DataBook/DataBook-Eng/eng103.html http://southtexasamc.tripod.com/osbdecal.htm << (Meaning remember the words on engine stickers that AMC itself wrote!) (Or meaning that sometimes looking can really be better than reading!) >>You should contribute this information to the AMCArchives Could or should, I still wait for some building to be erected that will prove an "American Center" for the AMC hobby. Long lists of links seem like cottages under shadow of skyscrapers, individual pages (like Colin Brodsky's) seem to sink into those shadows, and clunky web designs (pro work included) seem to eclipse the best-intentioned content. Who uses, who contributes, who cooperates, and who supports all matter. What are AMC clubs for? To preserve? Yes. To promote? Of course. To profit? Fat chance. For the most part, Nash-Hudson-American Motors still seems a labor of love --- for those who love being American, independent, and different --- but they can build a shining tower topped by an AMC logo. They just need to aim higher, work harder, act smarter, and -cooperate-. There's so much to read, so much to remember, and yet so much to learn. Arfon, while you're remembering, remember two things about RAT that Lamm forgot. 1) His final day was, as I hope I made time to write here this spring, not in "1983," but in 1985. February 28th, if I remember right. (And I do, I'm just acting low-key; not that anyone here seems to see.) 2) He was not solely responsible for the Caribbean: he production-ized the show car assignment done by Henney that had been designed by Arbib and had cost Ferry $10,000-plus. It was a six-week wonder (with 1930s wheels) and RAT readily acknowledged sources when asked. That's right. Who really designed the Monte Carlo (by Packard, not by Chevrolet) may also be misreported. There's no dispute about sources of inspiration, http://www.bellesdantan.com/Stutz/Pages/Stutz06.htm http://tinyurl.com/fdzog http://www.rmauctions.com/Restorations/Awards.cfm?CarID=3# (and, if you know the '70s, which AMCs it II inspired [after all these years, any clever stuff surely still goes over like that lead balloon]) but there is debate over what was done by which Dick. Groundwork was laid, but Teague had been at Reinhart's desk for over a year when those two production '51 Mayfair hardtops were sent from Detroit to Freeport [IL] on 9/10/52 (they were shipped back on 10/22...), so the concept was one Dick's and execution was the other's. Not that anyone here cares. Or that a few who do care have enough time to read or remember detail. At least I still contribute "something" every day I have time to read. A promise is "something" worth keeping --- even if it's but self-kept. Don't get me started on who designed the Panther: I'd begin by asking, "Which one?" and meander (if -you- haven't yet, take a trip to Turkey http://www.livius.org/a/turkey/meander/meander.html seriously, a fascinating place to visit and the people seem very nice) in woody wagons and fiberglass boats facing Kaiser Dragons and end by asking, "Who built the Nash Corvette?" I'm sure no one would read it without asking, "Who cares?" That's too bad, since it's AMC history. If I simply post a link, likely no one has time to click it or read: http://www.shiawasseehistory.com/panther.html even if it's short, easy-to-read, and, as you should see, incomplete. There were [at least] -three- Panthers over a period of -four- years. Thus the Panther answer is: -three- different designers actually did. (Which isn't what you may read in some of the routine RAT histories!) I still can't understand why AMC doesn't care to see. But then, AMC still hasn't seen the '80s "baby" Jeep. New "Complete Books" of AMCetera appear. Incomplete. Beats me. Oh well. Q1 - What Jeffery-Jordan history happened 80 years ago as we "speak"? A1 - If a letter (like "e") counts (and it's not about spelling; it's about stubbornness, about refusal [of gifts given]; about respect [of self and others]; and about confusing "rights" with "wrongs" [in both senses of each word), then a number can really do a number on you. I purposely put an "8" where a "9" should be. It made no sense, right? Right, because I wrote it wrong. So I made myself look like an idiot. Ned Jordan's new car plant was half-finished -90- years ago this week. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Motor_Car_Company And, as I've noted here before, Jordan had married Jeffery's daughter. Q2 - What Najjar-Ford history happened in 1960s-1970s design for AMC? A2 - If there's value in having a good name, then Nash, Chrysler, Ford, Chrysler, AMC, Chrysler, and ??? all knew one. Najaar designed Ford's "Diplomat" and its X-models. Of course, "X" marked the spot for many makers' ideas. http://www.michiganlcoc.org/articles/diplomat/diplomat.html http://www.sharonhollow.com/clayxm800.htm http://www.sharonhollow.com/danscars/xm800file/color1asis.jpg Q3 - What Najjar-Jordan history happened 'fore a Ford made -history-? Najaar, in a phone call from Jordan, learned about -Chevy's- Mustang. http://www.muscularmustangs.com/database2/stangbook.jpg Before "pony car" and before Camaro, a horse galloped in GM's stable. It can't be seen any longer, but still is in the eye of its designer. It could have been called a "baby Corvette" --- or even been renamed. Remember his next posting? Maybe there's something to see after all. http://tinyurl.com/lf9ct Maybe or maybe not. Maybe no AMC people care. Maybe one or two did. If they carefully count the numbers, watch the letters, and seek the secrets -outside- the still-too-small world of AMC, they may wonder whether the first production pony car was as much totally inspired by the 1962 -Ford- Mustang http://okmustangs.com/history/proto1.jpg http://okmustangs.com/history/proto3.jpg as by a "built-to-impress" 1962 named -Rambler- http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/pic/1999/buddb.jpg http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/pic/1999/buddcar.jpg that looked as ready to ride as a 1964.5 Mustang. http://www.muscularmustangs.com/database/stang1clay2.jpg http://home.pon.net/hunnicutt/images/MustangII_proto.gif Too many words, too many numbers, too much history for AMC. If anyone's still reading (Arfon may be) and ever had a dream of buying a "like-new" 1961 Rambler Ambassador, that dream may be hard to achieve. Few built; fewer left; fewer "all-original" --- fewest in "It just left the factory!" condition. Very, very few "never-restored and as-new" -top-of-the-line- AM cars seem to exist any more. Got one? Get one now! No, I tease. If you want a reasonable -facsimile- (by reason of Ex-by-Teague), a one-owner 44-year-new '62 Imperial Crown 4-door could be yours. It might not be cheap (if it were a '64-'65, it might not be posted; it might be mine: I like Engel simplicity and I like last-offs, so a final full-frame, WPC-era quality Imperial looks like a future classic to me!) at $10,000, yet if you like it, it might be your cup of metallic green tea. I haven't seen it (and won't have time to look), but it's here in WNY. (585) 345-3016. Funny, the year Ambassador wasn't a Cadillac, it was a Chrysler Imperial. Once those names really meant something. Even after one became "just an AMC." Happy something. I'm beat. ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 16:55:45 -0500 From: Jock J Jocewicz <namdra@xxxxxxxx> Subject: [AMC-List] Wanted To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <20060526.165545.-16458305.0.NAMDRA@xxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Am looking for a pair of good axles for a 66-69 Rambler/American V-8 rear end. Or, which I doubt anyone has, a pair of Moser solid axles for the same vehicle. Jock Jocewicz - President/Editor NAMDRA NAMDRA@xxxxxxxx 8537 Antioch Rd., Salem, WI 53168 (262) 843-4326 JOIN NAMDRA, the best AMC club around!!! '06 AMC NATIONALS - SEP. 14-16, 2006 - CORDOVA DRAGWAY PARK, CORDOVA, IL AMO#19, NAMDRA#46, AMCRC#974, NHRA#41915, IHRA#6766 ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 19:34:22 -0400 From: AMC74Hornet@xxxxxxxxx (Mr. AMC) Subject: [AMC-List] The Grill Resto Finished By June 4'th Is Over, And Will Not Be Done . To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx, amc_club_of_socal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, AmericanMotorsModelbuilders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, MacsOrphanCarGroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <5878-4477907E-67@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII My back went out today big time. And standing is a real problem never mind just walking the 10 steps to the bathroom. I quit!!! my 59 year old body that has been disabled for almost 20 years and has defeated me on the grill resto job and I won't make it to Ardsley show. Be back in a few weeks maybe. "Doc" ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:47:36 -0400 From: AMC74Hornet@xxxxxxxxx (Mr. AMC) Subject: Re: [AMC-List] Remember To Read To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <17109-4477A1A8-334@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII John M. as I asked a few weeks ago and many months ago many times do "YOU" own or drive a Rambler or AMC? I never saw an answer? One answer yes or no world be sufficient? My wife is Irish and for 37 years I have had to listen to to the babbling blarney from her and her "IRA" family members and never get a straight answer from any of them . Blowing off sites and rambling on is not an answer? And the answer is ?????? Sorry Frank. "Doc" ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:06:22 -0500 From: "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [AMC-List] remember to read To: "AMC List" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <002f01c68129$c8734e80$28f1b148@piageedc1iqa5q> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Mahoney wrote: American Center" for the AMC hobby: http://www.planethoustonamx.com/parts/80_nos_cc_amxpacer.jpg What ever happend to that sign? Eddie Stakes' Planet Houston AMX 713.464.8825 eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx *email is currently HEAVY Call if important* www.planethoustonamx.com ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 18:18:56 -0700 From: Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [AMC-List] Remember To Read To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <26520013.1148692736160.JavaMail.root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Why does this matter? Why does anything matter? I have had a headache for four days now, shrink says see your primary care physician. Wow, a lotta help that does on my schedule. Just finished loading in/ setting up the Toyota display at HighPoint raceway for the Motocross events this weekend. Big money for me! with a days vacation pay and the corporate union rate I get about $40 an hour. Like I can blow that off to get a shot to break up this headache and hell that may not even work! I had fun working outdoors for a change even with the headache. Tylenol and caffiene seemed to help today. Tonight I'm going with whiskey and beer :] tomorrow at least I'll have a reason for this d@#ed headache! Does John own an AMC? Who really cares? I don't, I can't decypher half of what he writes, but the delete button works well! Grille or grill? for once I have the luck of sticking extra letters in and on words to be write or right! Whatever! Grill or to grille? that is to question! Ask not what your AMC can do for you, but rather what can you do for AMC? Any spelling or grammar misstakes in this email are intentional, or caused by alcohol and/or stupidity! :] You decide which is real and which is an illusion! Sorry Frank! -- Mark Price markprice242ATadelphia.net Morgantown, WV ---- "Mr. AMC" <AMC74Hornet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > John M. as I asked a few weeks ago and many months ago many times do > "YOU" own or drive a Rambler or AMC? I never saw an answer? One answer > yes or no world be sufficient? My wife is Irish and for 37 years I have > had to listen to to the babbling blarney from her and her "IRA" family > members and never get a straight answer from any of them . Blowing off > sites and rambling on is not an answer? And the answer is ?????? Sorry > Frank. > "Doc" > > _______________________________________________ > AMC-List mailing list > AMC-List@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list > > or go to http://www.amc-list.com ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 21:11:10 -0700 From: "John Elle" <johnelle@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [AMC-List] Remember to read....A Sequal To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <000001c68143$9759e240$b6dd0d82@john1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" John and all Yust a few comments that periodically flash into mind SNIP There's no dispute about sources of inspiration, SNIP Weymann American Body Co. 1927-35, Indianapolis, Indiana, A subsidiary of the f French firm which patented a flexible fabric-covered body. <http://www.bellesdantan.com/Stutz/Pages/Stutz06.htm> http://www.bellesdantan.com/Stutz/Pages/Stutz06.htm http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/w/weymann/weymann.htm One would be surprised to find that the French have contributed more to the automotive world than Renaults, instant rust and poor management. After all, AMC did have a working relationship with the French back before or at least through the '60's and beyond, but then again wasn't the '60's known for hallucinogenic episodes? Or Charlie Nash and Walter P Chrysler seemed to run across one another through out their automotive lives and History. They lived and produced through the period of Classics with cars that aped the styling leadership led by the incomparable Duesenberg with senior Chryslers and Nashes that were every bit as good looking. http://www.automotive-art.com/sub_category.asp?category=Classic+Cars <http://www.automotive-art.com/sub_category.asp?category=Classic+Cars&su bcategory=Duesenberg> &subcategory=Duesenberg http://www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/pages01/chry3102.htm http://www.nashcarclub.org/nccaphot/thirty/32_998.html Of course one could always argue the input from various talented people and assorted committees as to who influenced whom and where did the ideas come from but if you look ad the Chrysler Thunderbolt of 1940/41 http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1941/thunderbolt/ and the much maligned styling of the Bath Tub Nash of 1949 the only question that seems to be un-answered is where are the front fender skirts and who really did the design. http://php.iupui.edu/~harrold/nash/50nash.html But the state of the hobby is in a precarious position, where if anywhere will the next hobbyists come from and what will they collect and where will they get the parts and due mainly to the inability of the caretakers of the hobby today to communicate to each other and those around them what will those hobbyists be trying to salvage and restore. It was not too long ago the number of VW Beatles on the road could not be counted, the total sales for them was huge. I don't know what it is around your house but this year I saw 5 of them so far. I have only seen two AMC's on the road and one of them was mine. The money people are willing to pay for a prime example of a Pacer is pathetic, yet the market is supposedly hot at the moment. Are we hobbyists as a group destined to see the following as the final disposition of our beloved quirky cars? http://www.photojournalistas.com/Sept-Oct_2002/Broken_Down_Heros/Photo_P ages/1949_Nash_Ambassador.html SNIP If you don't drive a real Rambler, drive a Rave Raffle. SNIP I don't have a Raffle, but I times I feel the need to drive off in a Blue Funk! http://home.att.net/~jmsmith45/funk.htm The following is recognized as the philosophical shift in advertising and marketing that began to sell the aura of automobile owner ship. SOMEWHERE west of Laramie there's a bronco-busting girl who knows what I'm talking about. "She can tell what a sassy pony, that's a cross between greased lighting and the place where it hits, can do with eleven hundred pounds of steel and action when he's going high, wide and handsome. "The truth is-the Playboy was built for her. "Built for the lass whose, face is brown with the sun when the day is done of revel and romp and race. "She loves the cross of the wild and the tame. "There's a savor of links about that car-of laughter and lilt and light-a hint of old loves-and saddle and quirt. It's a brawny thing - yet a graceful thing for the sweep o' the Avenue. "Step into the Playboy when the hour grows dull with things gone dead and stale. "Then start for the land of real living with the spirit of the lass who rides, lean and rangy, into the red horizon of a Wyoming twilight." <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Motor_Car_Company> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Motor_Car_Company Sloanism, an advertising term from the General specialized in that philosophy and GM specialized in selling cars world wide and at one time was better than 5% of this nation's gross national product. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000320/kitman/8 They taught the world to sell cars and then forgot the message. Lately they have developed the philosophy of safety and closing plants to decrease production volume and laying off employees to decrease their pay roles. Is it possible that the Aura of Safety is not necessarily producing environment required to draw people into the show room? There are some left I see, some even have cars in them. http://www.stopsuvs.org/html/safety.htm ZOOM! ZOOM! I recently had need for a replacement Van. I had a budget that I carried to a large new car dealer and presented to a salesman. Looking of course for a used van. I was shown cars $2000 to $3000 over my budget, I left. It took me 3 weeks to find a really nice Town and Country, under my budget, paid for and down the road I went from some where else. This was not my loss. This week end I got a promotion card from this same dealer. Come look! Take a drive! Purchase not required! So I went, looked and took a drive. Entered the lottery and left after showing no interest to the low ball deal and the 7 years of easy to make back breaking payments that I would be upside down with for 5 years. I even got a phone call from the sales manager wanting to know why I did not snap up this terrific deal. He was not happy when I told him why. He presented the wrong aura, It's late, I'm tired, Lemme see, where is my Funk parked. John. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ AMC-List mailing list AMC-List@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list End of AMC-List Digest, Vol 4, Issue 56 ***************************************