[Amc-list] Yes?

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

Last night, asked if, as President, "uncontrolled verbosity" could be harnessed, a candidate (who "harnessed" [plagiarized] words in papers written in law school) gave a one-word answer.  "Yes."  Then everyone laughed.  And no one remembered.  "The Da Vinci Code" is so yesterday.  Americans want to be entertained.

Today, I'll try to be factual, original and succinct.  In a word?  Yes.   

Yes, the "non-existent" Corvette was the 1983, but the single survivor among the 44 cars built is where it should be: in the National Museum.

http://www.corvettemagazine.com/2000/january/83/83p1.asp

What's in the Nash-AMC National Museum?  What?  There still isn't one?

Yes.  There should be more to AMC.  

http://www.studebakermuseum.org/

>>
It is uncommon for two vehicles to carry the same
name while manufactured by two different companies.
The DeSoto Suburban was manufactured from 1946
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946>
through the 1954 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954>  model year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_Suburban

 Does that mean that the Chevy truck Suburban was
not called a Suburban during that time? Also it seems
to me that the Suburban was advertised using initials
foisted onto the unitiated and care-less public as
an SUV.
<<

Yes, the "Suburban" Chevy usage was co-incident, but no, it was not an uncommon occurrence in auto history.  Cadillac and Chrysler sold same-year Imperials and many other model names were shared by competing car companies.  Drive your AM Cross Country and you will learn fun things.

Yes, the "hardtop convertible" roof design made 1963 an American -coup-

http://www.tocmp.com/pix/Buick/images/63BuickSpecial2.jpg

and was another of those often overlooked or mostly forgotten instances when AM was either setting the pace or keeping pace with the Big-Three, but it's another "too late" or "too costly" example too, among too many similar steel stampings made by AMC.  Rich old GM could afford to lurch, lunge, and cut off its nose to spite its face (remember its 1988 Fiero): poor old AMC could not afford its 1961-only Ambassador nose job (a first discreet AMC work by Dick T.), 1970-only AMX nose-and-grille, 1974-1978 coupe-only Matador (a final discreet AMC work by Dick T.), and one-year-only trio of "Dream Girls": 1963 440H, 1967 Marlin, and 1967 Ambassador convertible.  Don't say, "It was built as a Rebel in '67 and '68!"  AMC sold so few Ambassador and Rebel ragtops in -both- years that AMC would have lost money on them if it gave them a Cadillac convertible De Ville MSRP.  On the remote chance you're wondering, that car's base price was $5,608.00.  The 1967 Ambassador DPL convertible sti
 ckered at $3,134.00.

Yes, there should be more to AMC.

http://faculty.concord.edu/chrisz/hobby/Courtesy/67-conv-Sticker.html

In 1967, Rambler Mentality saw the beauty and bought a Kenosha Cadillac. 

Some of the most beautiful and most "collectible" AMC cars were some of the least "successful" and least profitable cars AMC produced.  Some of them should be destined for genuine greatness when AMC "breaks" through.  Or it breaks out.  Of whatever sort of self-manufactured "shell" it still might be stuck in...

Yes, there should be more to AMC.

In 2007, Rambler Mentality sees beauty but can't a buy Kenosha Cadillac.

Time has passed.  Opportunity is past.  Chance to seize the day is gone.

Yes, there should be more to AMC.

You can make the AMCyclopedia that Matt, Frank, and others have roughed in into something as showy and snazzy and internationally acclaimed as a -Cadillac- 
while you still have the means to do so.  While those who built, bought, drove, and dreamed AMC cars when they were still being manufactured are still here to help out.  Build it and they will wonder.  AMC?  Build it beautifully and they will see the light.  AMC?  Yes, -American- Motors!

AMC insight and info I post here is free for the taking: anyone can put any of it into the AMCyclopedia.  No AMC book or website that I've seen reveals the fact that "Marlin" was the working name for the AMC/Renault Premier.  I snuck that bit into a recent post.  Nothing that Pat Foster has ever sold says peep about a "baby" Jeep that predated Honda's CR-V.  I mentioned it right here.  I have photos.  I have sketches of the 96" AMX grille, greenhouse, wing, and bumper designs.  I know what the 108" Ambassador and the 122" Ambassador LS vinyl roof design proposals were.  I know how the all-AMC vehicle that changed America (or the world) was named.  If you read carefully, you know that I am not referring to the name "Jeep."  I have so much "unknown" or "overlooked" or "forgotten" AMC info that I couldn't type it over a year of Sundays.  (And I never type on Sundays.)  I think AMC should be worth more than casual toss-outs.  I don't write AMC history for a living; AMC isn't my o
 nly auto hobby; knowledge is power; time is money; life is short.  Blah, blah.  

I am not roasting or toasting or boasting or showing off: I'm simply suggesting there's something more to be said, shown, and seen in AMC.

This is not the best way to do that.  This is just "hanging" online.  It's fun to pass time talking about cars or sports or music or such; it's not always productive.  Productivity (and quality) made Toyota today's GM.   Productivity (and quality) could make AMC tomorrow's Studebaker and Packard.  America and Europe are learning from Asia as we speak.  So who is AMC learning from?

I've linked AMC to a fan-created Cadillac mega site [in Europe] before.

I've pointed at web resources by Packard lovers and other independents. 

I've cajoled and teased and shared and hinted and moaned.  You are AMC.

Is AMC "crusher crumbs," a kick-ass car company, or a Kenosha Cadillac?

Is there any AMC community on this planet?

Is it as big as it could or ought to be?

Is it as brawny as AMC fought to be?

Is it as beautiful as AMC once was?

Which AMC do you hope to see?

http://www.amcyclopedia.org/node/46

http://www.libertysoftware.be/cml/gallery/1967/67conv12.jpg

Ebony and ivory?

In perfect harmony?

Must we still wonder?

And ask "Whither AMC?"

Yes?

No?

??

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I have some fun and Simplex things to say about S-Class, but there's no time today to Get Smart about that.  AMC can still learn from Mercedes, no matter how Strange that Sounds. 

Yes, that's a fact.
 
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