[AMC-List] Looking back

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

While I don't have time to click through six weeks of list archives, I did click a few posts by known writers of intelligence to see if there was anything to learn plus a few by unknown writers to see what or how they presented.  I clicked on a few subjects that looked promising, so I'm ready to rumble.  Don't let the dogs out --- and Mark P., get well. 

Don't stop looking for AMC, Jerry, whether literature in Syracuse, NY, where Walter Miller's bricks-and-mortar museum's "renovation" obviously still goes on,

http://www.themuseumofautomobilehistory.com/press.html

or cars in Pikeville, NC, where Collier Motors was "loyal to the end." 

http://www.growlery.com/wigwam/2005/07/loyal-to-end.html

http://www.gremlinx.com/AMC-Pikeville.htm

Don't overlook any monuments-to-the-dead in AMC history also, even when doing so might strike some as somewhat morbid.  There is value in life -and- death.

Have any of you AMC lovers-or-experts ever seen this view from space? 

http://tinyurl.com/heytg

There lie the two Richards: a father (12/26/23-5/5/91) and a son (4/27/53-1/9/02).  Some should be interested in such lesser-known aspects of AMC history.  

Some should not be interested in seeing what is perhaps the most unaltered automotive office-and-manufacturing buildings still standing in America, but since what was perhaps the finest mass-produced automobile ever made in America was almost completely created and assembled there, it's worth a satellite look too,  

http://tinyurl.com/f6t5m

as is seeing it when America perhaps built world's best of -everything-.

http://imagesofwny.com/albums/OldeBuffalo/bflo045.sized.jpg

Is anybody "up" to posting a photo of another old car factory site now? 

http://tinyurl.com/md46w

Maybe not in a death zone. 

Too bad the "first car" (my first three -used- were Mopar; first -new- was AMC, not that any matter now) thread didn't take off; same for the "what's becoming of muscle cars" thread.  Maybe everybody was too hot.  

Maybe things never change.

"...weaker performance should not impede its German parent from achieving profit goals this year, but shaken confidence in [the] Chrysler [Group] has reawakened long-term concerns on the [future of DaimlerChrysler as a] unit."

Citigroup analysis in July 2006.

Any memory of Public Law 96-185?

Any memory of AMC-Jeep-Renault?

Any memory of good old America?

Psst: Wannna buy a Jag?  Not a car, the whole car company.  Ask Ford.

Psst: Wannna buy a Saab?  Not a fighter, the whole car line.  Ask GM.

Psst: Wannna buy an AMC?  Not a movie, the whole Jeep thing.  Ask DC.

Psst: Wanna buy a clue?  Not a chance, the dead hole is only history.  

How fast they forgot.

America's smart.  It's just the oil prices.  Yeah, that's the ticket.

Buy us some peanuts, new F-150s, Silverados, and Sierras and we will be the Cracker Jacks.  Cadillac will be The Standard Of The World so we'll be the best. 
Baseball, apple pie, and Chevrolet will be top-sellers throughout Europe and BALCO Barry, Franco Floyd, and Melismatic Mel will lead America into the light.

MTV will provide the soundtrack.  After all, with age comes maturity.

American Motors Corporation will be revived to build the all-new AMX.    

That's the future for American automotive history.  On the -Jaywalk-!
 
Quick, what did a King (Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia), an Emperor (Hirohito of Japan), a Shah (of Persia), a Maharaja (of Indore), another King (of Belgium), of the razor blade [but not of the Razr phone], King Gillette, of film comedies [not of the Comedy Kings] Charlie Chaplin, plus the kings of Standard Oil (John D. Rockefeller), of Curved Dashes (Ramsom E. Olds, who then dashed to a Speedwagon concert in his REO), of pre-eminence in flight (Orville Wright: wasn't he at the AMO in Dayton?], and pre-eminent at Princeton as President, before becoming President of the United States --- what did they -all- see so similarly?

The view from riding in America's best car.  Each owned a Pierce-Arrow.

Olds didn't buy a Packard or a Cadillac; Chaplin bought no Cunninghams.

(And Studebaker didn't kill Pierce-Arrow like it later did Packard...)

Psst: Wanna buy the best for less?  Built not in Buffalo, but Kenosha?

Keep your eyes open.

http://goodingco.com/ 

You can learn a lot.

http://tinyurl.com/m97sb

Learn the rules too.

The "Forty-Year Rule" says all those $1.25 million 1970 Chevelles will become $2.5 million masterpieces in just three seasons, but thereafter will revert to being everyday toys for blue-collar boys.  AKA drivers.

The rule is history.

Psst: Wanna buy a once-hot Ford?  Act fast, only $850k!
   
http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/showroom/1908/tourad.jpg

That's but a dream.

The Chevy was $2700.

Wait 'til you're 80.

That's but history.    

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