[AMC-List] Flyer's fliers: friars' flairs for flares

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

>>
there was a rare slotted 15x8 that was offered with flares in a
'richard petty' volare kit along about '78.
<<

e e cummings' (of cambridge, not concord, still in ma...) prose is right petty poetry, although it missed a verse.  

What correctly was called a "Street Kit Car" package was the step up from a '78 A67 "Super Coupe" --- even if its code was (and why not?!) A43: both as "rare" from Chrysler as SC/360 and Hornet AMX were from AMC, but -all- 1025 (Crimson Sunfire and Sable Tan metallic) A67s and 392 (two-tone racing red or racimg blue) A43s had 15x8 negative-offset, chrome-nut, steel wheels.  The flares had exposed fasteners and looked like they'd been cut from trash can lids, but while A43 ran with 'Vette, Z28, or TA, its sales ran down because, as it was being introduced, Petty ran out on Mopar to run in the G-body (which was called A-body then) Chevy-Poncho.  Unlike his switcheroo to Torino in '69, Richard didn't return to Dodge; even when Kyle drove a Magnum in his ARCA Daytona debut.  K. flip-flopped (as did the paint on his Grand Prix) into a Pontiac in '82, as well.

As always, no dearth of history --- unless it's history for AMC.   

http://www.pettyracing.com/index_hi.html

And FWIW, A43 wheels had no hubcaps (in case you see some of either for sale on eBay...) and the third "rare" 2-door (prior to AMC's one-off "M" Ambassador...) Aspen/Volare was a TV-theme show car called the "Fonzmobile" (Google it and you may see a boat!)      

http://tinyurl.com/j3zyu

http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/fonz.jpg

Ayyyy!

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i292/awolseb/fonz_big.jpg

Heyyy!

http://img237.exs.cx/img237/9617/fonz4bl.jpg

Oyyyy?

that actually led to the building of California customs called, well, CCs. Those cars had fake cabriolet tops that looked like the Packard Victoria's

http://www.wwmotorcars.com/images/PreviousProjects/35packard.jpg

(or, for equal opportunity historicism, the even bigger Cadillac's)

http://tinyurl.com/ebjrx

along with some really wide whitewalls, deep trim rings, and Baby Moons.

While dealer-built, they, like some cars seen by -other- car companies (AMC?), led to later production models that most of you must have seen.

http://www.moparkerho.net/harrastus/carpics/83mirada14.jpg
http://www.sounddomain.com/ride/330678

http://www.dippy.org/info/image/cor82bro04.jpg
http://www.dippy.org/info/image/cor82bro05.jpg

Seeing a different roof, something else you must have seen: 1970s AMC factory photography done at the same location where this Chrysler Cordoba picture was posed.
 
http://www.dippy.org/info/image/cor82bro02.jpg

Can your remember the AMC model(s) and year(s)?

(1985 "Massacre in Moldavia" not shot there...) 

http://www.shoulderpads.net/multimedia/

Looking is a fun way to learn more about cars.

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