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

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with yet another chop job asked.  @#$%!

Voting now not an option, so just "Go."


>>
Does anyone on the list already have the December issue of Musclecar
Enthusiast yet? My feature on Larry Blatt's 343 67 Rogue is in it and I
haven't gotten my copies yet. I'm dying to see how it turned out. If anyone
has it already and can scan and send it to me before I leave for the SEMA
Show tomorrow I would apprecaite it greatly. 
<<

By the time request was noted today, it's too late, but I did see the
article in NY over the weekend; good photos.  

I also saw AMCs in other magazines:

11/04 Automobile opens a '70 Gremlin brochure on page 10 (accompanied by
"... a Kamback car like the Gremlin made things even worse.") and they
proudly show a Gremlin-esque Lamborghini Espada II protytope four pages
later.  Oh?
"That '70s" article (112+) includes an AMC Pacer and Pacer (with original
AMC owners Donny Solomon and Jeff Puras) and the issue wraps (132) with a
non-AMC car that sold for $4,455,000 this August.  I saw it then; you can
now.     

http://www.supercars.net/garages/Duesey/16v2.html

Why note it?  It was styled by an AMC Pacer owner.

For whom this was written by an AMC Pacer stylist.

"The mark of the really exceptional car designer is the degree to which his
creations are coveted and revered long after they were built. Many of Gordon
Buehrig's cars are in this class --- true collector items.  They were
considered classic cars when introduced, and the feeling about them, the
sense of distinction and value, has increased with the passage of time."

- Vice President for Styling Richard A. Teague, 1975

11/02 HMN highlights a black-on-blue Palm Coast (FL) '67 Ambassador hardtop
on page 1.  Offering any '67 Ambassador (or '67 Marlin) expert here to show
us the light --- on '67 Ambassador (and Marlin) in-bumper and on-grille
lights.
What was standard, what was optional or what was parts-counter add-on.
Here's your chance to contribute.  Or vote.
(Or at least tell me what was what, because I'd like to know...)

Notice the race Javelin humping around Lime Rock (57) and maybe even apply
the Montero article comment on early '70s intermediates to the design and
development of the '74-up Matador coupe.  History wasn't always the way we
believed.
    
AMC is acknowledged in the 9/20/04 AN Design Supplement (22L) with a famous
factory photo captioned by "the 1980 AMC Eagle ... ancestor of today's
crossover vehicles."

If you're interested in today's vehicle designs, note the "Retro Report
Card" scores.  Mini, Mustang, GT and 350Z all got "As" (I wouldn't be so
kind to the Nissan), while GTO and 300C each earned a "D-" grade.  I
wouldn't be so hard on either one.  The Chrysler has some good cues, the
Magnum wagon looks good (the Charger looks like 1970 AMC "on-the-cheap"
updating gone overboard) and the Holden, while ten years' out-of-style,
still can't be called ugly;
interestingly, someone with some "interest" in both bodies had a stronger
opinion recently.  Three days after Lee Iacocca turned 80, his 72 year-old
former associate, made no bones about "not particularly" liking the 300C
style.

"The beltline is too high and I'm sick to death of hearing it compared with
a Bentley!"

"Would I approve the car or tell designers to go back and work on it some
more?"

"I don't think I would have approved it."

Of course, he approved his own "baby" and said that he wants an "even
better-looking" GTO for '07 or '08 approval.  And, rather interestingly, I
hear that it now looks a lot like the next generation of sport coupes from
Mercedes!!    

(Interestingly, too, ALG's low 300C residual values [which are now making
DCX howl] may even support his opinion.)    

AMC is remembered in 9-10/04 Antique Automobile (36), in an article titled
"Reading Tom McCahill" (1907-1975, who, for readers from later
generations/other galaxies, was one of America's first magazine "car
testers"), via quotes.

"... on a sports car from American Motors (which he did not like): 'It went
over with the new breed of sports-minded buyers like poison ivy at a nudist
colony.'  Tom was much more generous with the 1950 Nash Rambler when he
wrote about the car.  'It is as cute as a cup cake.'  He had as much fun
with words as he did with cars."

Today's car journalists could learn from the past.