Re: [Amc-list] The Return of AMC
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Re: [Amc-list] The Return of AMC
- From: Keith Evenson <epd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:18:51 -0600
>
> "I'm guessing that "those GM guys" are the HR staff."That article"
> must
> mean the magazine as a whole. No where did I get the impression, and I
> can't see how anyone else but you could conclude, "that it had GM
> dripping all over it" in specific reference to the AMC article
> within the
> G.M. oriented magazine. The pictures didn't have "G. M." dripping,
> sprayed, nor draped over them.
> I think a point that the few whiners are missing is 1) AMC has
> been dead
> for 21 years- there is business associated with collecting AMC cars
> butg-
> the company doesn't exist to influence anyone 2) publishing is a
> business
> and magazines are a way for the publishers to make money, 3) this
> magazine happens to be G.M. based, 4) so what? 5) HotRod caters to a
> general fan base that are buying cars, and parts for them, that
> sell in
> large numbers, 6) how is the fact that some people can't separate
> their
> feelings of being conned, shortchanged,or being made fun of in some
> obscure way no matter how much of a stretch that is connected to the
> reality that a) HR chose,in it's hypothetical ruse, of all the no
> longer
> in business domestic car companies to reemerge- AMC- Not
> Studebaker, Not
> Oldsmobile, Not Hudson, Not Plymouth, Not Packard, Not Willys,Not De
> Soto- AMC, B) in recapping past models not a disparaging remark-
> overt or
> implied, was rendered C) think about all the people that forgot or
> never
> knew AMC's, including the all important YOUTH- that were,in a round
> about
> way, introduced to AMC culture and icons.
> Wow, how horrible of them. I can really see why they shouldn't
> have your
> business."
>
> Steve
>
Steve, I could not have said it better myself. I have an entire
family that are "Chevy Lovers" and they we more excited when they
read the article then thinking it was some kind of a put down for
AMC. I like my cars and don't really care who or what company may
think of them.
Keith
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