[AMC-List] An old song is a good song?

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

Away awhile, too busy: gradually getting up to speed.  In New York, Los Angeles (Buick bash at ACC --- woo-woo --- meet the Tiger!), here for a week, away again: lots more work to do.  After her hard month (Bologna, Rome, Naples, Milan, Mannheim, Berlin, Lucerne, London, and Munich) in Europe, Renee sang in Stockholm Friday

http://tinyurl.com/y497wf

and Oslo Monday (pic six in "Bildeserie: Nobelfesten")

http://tinyurl.com/y752ba

and I attended --- a "once-in-a-lifetime" thing, maybe.  But everyone is headed home for the holidays (or, following three -more- jobs, will be...)     

http://tinyurl.com/yetsd3

http://tinyurl.com/yz2g7c

http://tinyurl.com/yn58pq

with three weeks to relax before the cars hit the paycheck roads again.

http://tinyurl.com/yms7q4

http://tinyurl.com/ygemu5  

Life is working for a living.  Living is looking at old cars like AMCs.

It was interesting how really irrelevant AMC can seem --- if you're not selling, servicing, driving, or, like Truesdell in current MTC* (his "Musclecars on Route 66" includes the AMC in nine [of twenty-six total...] images --- even though it drove only the final [Winslow to Santa Monica] segment: that's a fan of AMC!) when working for a living by writing and photographing them.  Knowing that some Scandinavians like big old American machines, I wondered if any "AMC moments" would be seen.  Uh, nope, but -Packard- certainly seems to be alive and kicking --- wherever I travel.  It's as if it transpired being that "dead independent" and Packard really reigns supreme.

Maybe it has something to do with quantity and quality: ex-big, ex-best.

But it doesn't matter, really.

*11-12/06 issue also has a [1964-vintage] AMC photo in following piece.

And 1/07 MT has last-page (168) last word including AMC: "...long gone... two Plymouths, two AMCs and the Olds..."

And 1/07 C&D wonders if the Honda Remix is "...the next Gremlin..."  Maybe.    

At least they still mention AMC.

I don't have time to click back before this week, thus anything I write will probably read as stupidity.  So be it.  As they said ~1946, SNAFU.

What would be anathematic for Packard, is cool for AMC.  

>>I was surfing today and happened across this website...

Old news is no news when lost somewhere along the route.

>>I would not trust anything on that page.  It was never finished...

Old ways are no way when less somehow results from more.

But since most of the same folks are discussing the same AMC, it's go.

>>a new mini SUV looking car, AWD. Guess what it's called -- SX-4!!!

Almost: lose the hyphen.

http://www.suzukisx4.com/   

Whereas when you see it --- in just about two weeks coming --- another Japanese maker will go full tilt (or Bevel, if you prefer...) with a new Rogue --- a car that, I suspect, should prove a simply stellar seller. 

"This small crossover SUV will show our continued innovation and excitement.  We have high expectations for this product and cannot wait to unveil it to the world."

 --- Larry Dominique, VP, Product Planning, Nissan North America, Inc.

(Except, that is, the world that thinks the best small SAV is a BMW X3.

If you remember anything I wrote about Nissan ten years ago, you get a gold star --- and, maybe --- a gold bar in your retirement fund kitty.)

Nissan is, what could have been, the last [non-lethal] chapter of AMC.

It's too bad AMC didn't hire better writers

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6624971

Or let them drink at work a little bit more.

http://tinyurl.com/y6q75n

(Hey, hold your 401X Race Block horses, just an AMC joke...)

(And don't forget that the '07 Jeep Compass originally wasd to be named Jeep -Scout- --- which would've been a crossover in more ways than one.

>>
the more i think about it, the more i'm convinced that all inline
sixes are internally balanced by their very nature.
<<

Sometimes: depends on when.

http://zhome.com/ZCMnL/tech/harmonics.htm

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