Hot eggnog may be lethal

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

If the fastest AMC swing dancer since Marlin torqued her tube was Dona Dono
(hued in Alice blue), if the later-Latin American rogue ("It's a Matador")
tangoed into its Top X too, if too many fast Christmas turns twist your tutu
into a "too-too" (on the Fritz, crack nuts and bolts also), if the cadence
is catchy but you can't count every beat, my clever wordplay filled with AMC
"in" jokes is more than just funny --- it's a gentle way to "it's" isn't
"its" and "to" isn't "too" and, way back on the dance card, to suggest
"Donahue" isn't "Donohue."  You know who is/are you. 

We read, we write; if we're lucky, we all learn something.

>>
A brief online search turned up nothing.  If someone does
have this information, I would appreciate it if the numbers
for '71 and '72 Matadors were provided as well.
<<

>>
According to my souses, 7,067 2doors of which 133 were 401.
Plus 33,822 4doors and 11,643 wagons.
<<

http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/06_04/06-04-dr-souse.htm  

Seriously, those who created the AMCyclopedia (let's thank them) should not
be expected to fill it with information also; EVERYONE from the AMC hobby
world must cooperate and do that.  USEFUL facts and figures today are
scattered around the Internet, stored on his computer, piled on her
bookshelf, tucked away in attics or garages and spouting from every car show
mouth.  None will be USEABLE until assembled in one place online.  Only
I/YOU/WE can/will/should do that. 

For example, my "current" file folder of unused (and therefore useless) AMC
stuff has some relatively-recently-received production breakdowns I never
knew existed.  In my "retired" (so usefully "dead") boxes are many more
equally "unknown" bits of AMC info.  Words, images and AM knowledge that
will be but silly scraps of paper for recycling someday unless I do
something worthwhile with them sometime or I sell/donate them to someone
skilled in automotive archeology (since there's still no established AMC
museum-with-archive to serve future American Motors historians and fans.

I might mind not being able to share Matador info today; you might mind not
being able to find more facts between the jokes: either lack should remind
all of us what "not being able to" does for the "collectible car" AMC.  It
reduces its (not it's) value and limits its (not it's) appeal; whether or
not "musclecar" (or Muscle Car, since AMC did build two true examples
thereof, plus a "mini Muscle Car" in extremely small quantity) American
Motors collecting (and prices) go "zoom-zoom" to stratospheres.  There are
no worse representatives of anything than those "oh-so-proud" owners of
zillion-dollar cars who DON'T KNOW the whole history of their marque.
Whether they bluff their way via incorrect information or just say, "I like
this car but don't really know much about the XYZ company." is immaterial;
it's (not its) like wearing a flashy team jersey but not following its (not
it's) season.  And it's (not its) as impressive (and useful) as information
I/we don't/won't place/find in the AMCyclopedia.

We're all [presumably] busy; we're all [presumably] stressed, but we're all
presumably AMC owners and collectors --- or we're true idiots lost; if we
find a few minutes now and then to read [fewer and fewer] bits of posted
info about AMC, we also have a few minutes to share info we have collected
or info we think was worth collecting from others over years.

Most of us can't (and won't) build intellectual monuments to our hobby; we
don't expect Mitchell or Foster or Trump edifices to satisfy all our AMC
needs.  We, cooperatively, together; however, can raise skyscrapers and
assemble pyramids beyond the stretch of im-Mensa-able proportion ---and we
can do that, stick-by-stick, block-by-block, word-by-word, week-by-week ---
easily and free.

>>
WQithout the ''expanding'' hot gasses the turbo will not operate
very well. Just blowing already expanded[ or mostly expanded] cooler
down stream exhaust gasses to drive the Turbo would cause the Turbo to
be very very lazy.

The''Bad '' heat associated with a Turbo is heat transfered to the
intake tract and fuel system.
<<

Thus, since "70% efficiency" means 30% hot air, if an increase in boost
heats more air than it raises pressure, a 50% to 40% efficiency demands, ah,
intercooling.  "The Good, The Bad and The Costly" and "Displacement, Make My
Day" have played since the silence/silents was/were golden and since Benz
bent bends into fast auto roads.  As fahr as 2004's vergnugen goes.

In 1/05 HMN, Letinello collects a $5 Nash hubcap (43), Hudson bumpers are
sold cheap (49), a "seldom-seen '72 Jeep Commando with ... standard American
Motors 232-ci OHV straight (they take pains to explain) six" (55), an
"amazing 1977 AMC Matador station wagon" (five lines to marvel in amazement)
and a "Pininfarina IKA coupe" (no amazement on how much it resembles a
Rambler American aft of its [not it's] cowl) are on page 56.

I took the time to tell you; except for Ralph Ausmann's CD, those bits of
AMC info have now gone from useless to useful to lost to future AMC, since
AMC --- unlike other dead independents such as, say, Studebaker/Packard
(which, if it's [not its] not too [not to] much to point out, isn't the same
as Studebaker-Packard) --- doesn't seem to have any bibliographic types
willing to (not too) keep track of AMC eruptions.  Poof!  AMC is here, gone
and forgotten.  No wonder AMC lack repro parts.  (Unless the AMCs [not
AMC's] needing parts are AMC's [not AMCs] future zillion-dollar/so-proud
choice few [boring?!] models.)

I could list dozens more "today" AMC citations; books, magazines, TV,
movies.  I'm busy; I'm stressed; I'm done. 

(And you're only reading?)