[AMC-List] Buzz, buzz

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

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1973-AMC-HORNETT-ONE-OWNER_W0QQitemZ320024818984QQihZ011QQcategoryZ5357QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Maverick is almost same condition, and ugly color to boot still got $1200 more bidding and no dumbass questions:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1972-Ford-Maverick-Excellent-Condition_W0QQitemZ280024696326QQihZ018QQcategoryZ6057QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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There were 2 grills used in 74 on Hornet's. One was used in 73 and 74
with round turn signal lights and the other was used from late 74 till
77 with rectangular turn signal lights.
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If '74 gas filler is flapped,

http://tinyurl.com/mnpwh

http://tinyurl.com/oq5o8

'73 cap is, uh, unflappable,

http://tinyurl.com/rplew

AMC fans flap fingers and flames instead of forging a future for AMC.  If they're licensed in AMC grill [sic] work, they just throw AMC onto the fire.

On an AMC menu of Nash Noshes and Kenosha Brats, they order Peeking Doc.

Can't they play nicely and share their pleasures in "then" AMC cars now?

Can't they copy the best from other makes making their "new" AMC better? 

Two AMC bumper stickers once read: "HORNET Truth Love & Beauty" and "I Got Stung and I Love It!"  Both looked like psychedelic trips into an AMC past; one sounds like the "Better Idea" for an AMC future: it's too bad too many AMC experts don't differentiate nectar from venom and just fly above: they could make AMC more than just a dead marque.

That Maverick obviously has the "Luxury Decor Option" trim package Ford introduced late in the '72 run (so it must be a '73?) which was one of the first times any "European" style was marketed as a good thing in domestic compacts (Hornet was ostensibly more "European" but AMC had not seen value in advertising the fact) with very soft leather-look reclining buckets, deep, plush, velour carpeting, burled "wood" interior trim, -radial- tires (Europe handled curves as well as Detroit dragged cars down strips), "deluxe" wheel covers (Detroit still didn't diet) and a long-gone vinyl roof.  AMC tried to respond with its Hornet "Kashmir" cloth option*, but it took nearly 5 more years to put its "new" Concord on sale.  "The luxury America wants..." was by then almost as old an idea as the '70 body it came in.  Like too much at, of, by, and about AMC, too little, too late.  And like AMC too often, or too much, too far for the fine '79, also.  "Just" how many buyers -ordered- "Limited"!
  AMC models versus how many "Limiteds" were -forced- onto AMC dealers to try to sell?  If AMC couldn't succeed by moving "up-market", AMC couldn't survive by remaining "downscale", and AMC couldn't couldn't even keep AMC drivers on the road (thousands of whom drove away after '78 when AMC built nothing but small cars...), how could AMC possibly compete with Motown, with Europe, and with Japan?  As long as AMC was stuck being "just AMC," AMC was -just- doomed to fail.  It took over a decade for its painful fall from potential to ruination to run on down, but AMC was "just AMC" right to its -own- bitter end.

It's still being "just AMC" today; it's still the right make for those who still drive the AMC way.  They like AMC "just" the way it was (and is), so they see no need to change.  If AMC suits AMC believers, AMC is a big success.  "Just" the way AMC was when it thrived and thrashed and crashed and failed: "AMC4EVER" unto death.  It's just the AMC way.

Don't build it better; it's just good enough!

Don't beg, borrow, or steal toward successes.

Leave that for Chevy, Ford, Mopar, or Toyota?

Loose a list, forget a forum: AMC is just OK!

AMC cars will run until they rust or rot out.

Then, who cares?  They're "just AMCs" anyway! 


I was looking at AMX II, Vixen, and Cavalier recently: it is impossible to overstate how excellent they were; it's quite like saying, "Tiger is a good golfer" and nothing much more.  I was looking at the last "big" bodies (and at the other industrial items their chief architect later designed: his boats were "water cars"; his cars were "land cruisers", and all demand sailing far afield from "just" AMC history): it's sad to see how far downhill from such high points AMC allowed itself to sink.        

If the '67s were too "AMC" for many "conquests," yet not "AMC" enough for many "Ramblers," the 1970s should have satisfied -both- types.  And they did just that.

The Hornet/Concord/Gremlin/Spirit "saved" AMC.

More than Altima/Maxima/Titan "saved" Nissan.

More than 300/Magnum/Charger "saved" Mopar.

Even more than Taurus/Sable "saved" Ford.

Maybe more than -any- car can "save" GM.

Good idea, good style, good value, good car.

Had it not been an AMC, could've been great.

But it couldn't change; it couldn't compete.

It just could not step up to the next level.

It stayed "just an AMC" while worlds turned.

Sad.  Some things just never seem to change.

Maybe if AMC had just had its own four.

Maybe if AMC had just had a new AMX.

Maybe if AMC had just had more time.

Maybe if AMc had just been more AMC.

Maybe not.

FWIW, Concord's '78 grill [sic]

http://www.amcrc.com/somerset/amc.htm

was unmistakable and a one-off.

Are you sick of stupidity involving AMC?

Do you think AMC should learn from Ford?

Maverick?  Ha!

Pinto?  ROTFL!

Henry?  Nahhh!

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."

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This list and the Forum cater to different crowds with some crossovers.
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"I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible."

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A stable forum would be nice!
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"There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do."

Ja!

*I'm at an office in downtown; my AMC lit is [lost] in boxes at home, so I don't how it was spelled or when (1975?) it appeared.  That's why AMC needs an online encyclopedia.  So anyone, anywhere, can see and read the history, the whole story, of the only true American Motors.  Before the real AMC** really is just all gone.

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

Ah.

"History is more or less bunk."

Oh?

**Bag all the "rare" AMC history bunk you can now --- before it too is in some old -bag-.

http://tinyurl.com/rkc8k

http://www.kimwhitehandbags.com/shopsmall.html
http://www.kimwhitehandbags.com/shoplarge.html

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."

So?

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Has anyone seen the Sprint Mobile Broadband commercial on cnbc TV or
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No.

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4vNINn1uMk

Yo!

AMC could have been more than "just" AMC then.

And AMC could have become a "great" hobby now.

But then, as Henry also said:

"Reading musses up my mind."

Mine is long gone. 

Go!

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