[Amc-list] Automotive Traveller Magazine -- a definite must see!

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Our resident professional photographer/writer Rich Truesdale has what looks to be a real winner here! It's sort of like Motor Trend melded with a travel magazine. The great thing is it LOOKS as good as Motor Trend, or better. I really like the flash-player interface for on-line viewing! Or you can download it as a PDF file and store it. Rich didn't leave a link in his note about it -- so here it is: http://www.automotivetraveler.com/index.php

Definitely worth a look. Seems to me like cars and travel are a natural! There's some AMC content in this first issue too -- Matt Wilson's SC/Rambler and features on the Jeep Jamboree and an Alaskan Jeep tour. I'm sure Rich will eventually put some of his AMCs in the "our rides" section also. 

The article I most liked was about baseball and travelling the southwest in a Magnum SRT8. At the end of the article a 67 Dodge Coronet is compared to the SRT8. The really neat thing is Rich (who wrote the article) reasearched the inflation rates and compared prices of both cars in there resepctive year dollars -- 67 dollars for the SRT8, 07 dollars for the Coronet. Now he couldn't take everything into account, like material caosts and such, but if you consider how much better appointed today's cars are than late 60s cars, especially the SRT8, the price in 67 dollars is probably about right. I checked the list price for a 67 Imperial, which is closer to the Magnum's appointments and creature comforts than the Coronet, and it compares favorably with the extrapolated Magnum price. If I could buy a car, even a plain car, the size and performance level of the Coronet for the 07 price, I just might do it! Of course I wouldn't want to feed that thing gas!! You have to admit, a mid 
 level 
67 car, like a Coronet (or say a Rambler Rebel), is rather plain compared to today's higer end cars like the Magnum. Heck, those 67 cars are plain utilitarian!! 

Anyway, it's definitely worth a look. Hopefully they will keep enough advertisers that the magazine will continue to be free on-line. Since subscription prices for most don't even cover printing, mailing, and handling, I really don't see why not. It will be easier to track how many people view the website and read the magazine too. Help Rich and the crew out, go look at it and tell your friends! 

--
Frank Swygert
Publisher, "American Motors Cars" 
Magazine (AMC)
For all AMC enthusiasts
http://farna.home.att.net/AMC.html
(free download available!)
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