[AMC-List] It's Magic!

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

Mentioned (and in holiday scramble I missed reading it): AMC family E-Stick antecedent?

Not from the 1600s, 

http://www.esper.ru/alh_img/magic_hand.jpg

nor from the 1960s,

http://www.backtobasicstoys.com/item/productid/3254/

nor from the last 60-minute cycle of news,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6193681.stm

but from N-K+HMC.  Magic?  No.  Lectric?  Yup.

A finger touch long before revolutionary mice.

http://tinyurl.com/hstbm

Kar kids kan find it in a big AM history book.

Magical "things they never saw before..." maybe.

http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B4327.jpg

You know them unless you were born yesterday.

http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B16739.jpg

Fill your '06 holiday season with '36 magic.

Shift Santa's sleigh to Hudson's Magic Hand.

In three years, Santa shifts to Drive-Master.

He'll be juiced on Red Bull and Turbo charged.

Now Dasher, now Dancer, now Prancer and Vixen! 

http://www.desoto58.com/dreamcar/rambler/vixen1.jpg

Say "Now Santa has some AM-in-the-sky styling!"  

http://www.rsportscars.com/foto/07/lexuslfa05_inter.jpg

Say "Now Lexus is the new 2007 lead reindeer?"

Remember "sleigh-of-hand" <groan> wasn't always a ToyoGeneral Octomatic.

Remember nothing is forever as well: sometime it's time to change gears.

>>
John Mahoney's Packards from the so-called modern era is or was as I
understand it the only independent to develop there own fully automatic
transmission in the 50's and was used by Nash and Hudson on the Packard
derived V-8's I believe but it was a 2 speed automatic with a lock up
torque converter used as a 3 speed automatic and some what problematic
at best I believe.
<<

(Father owned '55 and '56 Packards; my newest was a '49 fat boy woody

http://www.oldwoodies.com/img/4sale/jhigginson/49packard_060531.jpg

and it, too, never looked quite right for a burger/cola/fries cruise.)

http://static.flickr.com/49/137961028_20b80b06b2_m.jpg

but Twin Ultramatic, like Torsion-Level, may not have reached the height [!] of mid-1950s success that GM, Ford, Chrysler, and, for a brief shining moment, American Motors, had, but if you asked the engineers who worked in Saarinen's shining symbol of America's greatest age of postwar success [GM Tech Center], they said that maybe the Packard magic was even more magical than their own.  The Powertrain Division could relax a little when the model year 1957 dawned.  

>>
Now there is a big push to get the snowmobile variable speed automatics
out in the market. So far not overly successful. Audi, Saturn and others
in the last couple of years (now no longer offered). The Dutch Daf in
<<

Really?  Only GM decided to ring in its new year with planetary gears.

Won't compose "Theme on Variomatic" but CVT's shifting into high gear.

Nissan, Honda, Toyota, BMW, Audi, Ford, and even DCX are among many magic makers today; tomorrow, the CVT may come to challenge the "traditional" automatic.

How little/lots Leonardo knew.

Life was so fast back in 1490.

If Nissan can translate Clio into Versa to turn out 5-star safety with an ultra-compact, class-leading MR18 power plant (while dummer DaimlerChrysler can't translate Deutsch into D-body to put a -finished- mid-sedan on sale [promised computer thingys and interior LED are now "late availability" selling points: imagine Accord or Camry ever being sold like that!] --- and Sebring isn't even pretty {can't Mopar simply knock off an Audi or Subaru design?} [Versa ain't pretty either, but it's -supposed- to look odd: it's a cheap hatchback {but couldn't Nenault knock off a nice VW or Seat?}]), if GM wants to be making cars --- and making money --- in 2036, it must again make magic also.  

More must make more merriment.

Or, like AMC, make makes gone.

So, Seasons' Greetings to all.

Go forth.  Make holiday magic.

If ya don't do magic: as they say, talk to the hand.

http://euromusicology.cs.uu.nl/img/guidonianhand.jpg

Count and/or sing along with Goodguy Guido d'Arezzo:

"Do-re-mi, bring a new A-M-C."

"Fa la la la la, la la la la."

For this Christmas, already!

This is now the year 1060.

Pacem in terris.

Peace be.

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