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["Eddie Stakes" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe time to shut it down. Maybe in honor of John Elle who died a few 
months ago. He was sort of backbone of this amc-list stepping in to help 
1000s of AMCers with questions, big and small. Always helpful even if 
problem had been commented on, still offered assistance. His collection of 
AMCs were taken to brothers place in New Zealand, inc late Valerie Fleming's 
80 AMX, 75 Hornet Sportabout wagon and I believe a hatchback. Not sure what 
happened to the 70 Donohue.

I started a facebook group a year ago, has 5500+ people in one year, am 
humbled and honored (honoUred if Canadian) that grew so quick, so fast. 
Instantly put photos of which I recommend AMCs stuck to ground to American 
Cup winners, all good, feel free to join
https://www.facebook.com/groups/950867441658093/

Yes, old fashioned mailing lists dying out or DOA already. A few times I 
have been talking to myself on here. But not unusual to talk to myself ha 
ha. But figured if I posted a lead, or interesting tidbit on facebook, would 
post here too.

When I joined here in 1990s, stepped right into "What Is A Real AMX?" fight, 
and was surprised to see such a nice medium being used in a way like that, 
as someone from Alamo AMC San Antonio chapter told me to get on Jim Stone's 
amxfiles.com site and check it out, which I did, from a huge SRO sports bar 
near my apartment with free internet.

But everyone has gravitated to facebook, and I have a file on my site with 
some (but not all yet!) facebook groups am in:
http://www.planethoustonamx.com/amc-facebook/amc-groups-on-facebook.htm

A irony here is that we used to bitch and whine in 1980s how much AMC Hobby 
was fractured. Wars between different aMC national clubs, mostly Larry 
Mitchell's AMCWC against all others, 'fractured' us and could not unite.  So 
fast forward into 2019, hell, there is over 50 aMC & Rambler related 
facebook groups, some for only one model, or year for instance!

Mitchell's club imploded in early 2000s, and in 2018, he died in a Jeep 
crash in AZ; while AMC NAMDRA group fell apart and is also gone as Jock 
Jocewicz died in 2018. We lost a lot of AMCers in 2018, Neil Perry, Garry 
Timmerman, the aforementioned John Elle to name a few, chances are some of 
ya'll can add to the list. But the old amc-list few people left, and sure, 
you ca still search for www.amxfiles.com but get HTTP ERROR 500
Problem accessing /c. Reason:  Server Error

But that site been gone for years, and even after it was gone, could still 
pull up on internet, and unfortunately had AMCers who no longer with us who 
passed into AMC Heaven in 1990s, 2000s like vendors Leo Charbonnet; Lee 
Fanning, John Slabe and Joe Lazur for instance.

Anyways, if I can figure out how to leave the amc-list I will, for some 
reason it still has my old email of eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx not 
eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx shortened by my new website host...over 2 years 
ago. Merry Christmas to everyone, as today is Jesus' birthday. And hope to 
see ya'll on my facebook or other facebook group.
Eddie Stakes
713-464-8825 days
www.planethoustonamx.com 

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