If you can't...

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

Can't drive your GT (mid-engine supercar) because its control arm could be
cracked and cause a high-speed wipeout?

Can't drive your CV (Police Interceptor) because its gas tank could be
crushed and cause a high-stakes barbeque?

Can't drive your CM (cerebral matter) because it's stuck back when Arkansas
roads were patrolled by AMC Javelins?

Then buy a book, buddy, from the AMC-List listings online!  Since its
holiday bookfair now seems open, we'll add another to the sales shelf. 

It's: 

How to Select and Install Turbochargers by Hugh MacInnes.  H.P. Books, 1971.
SBN (no "I" yet) 0-912656-05-0.  144 pages.  In 30-year-old new condition.

It won't answer every question you've recently had about turbo-charging, but
it's a good read from when Kenosha cars were retailed for the roads.  Best
of all, it's at an AM (AMC mentality) price of $2.00 plus postage.  Ho, Ho,
Ho!

(Seriously, Santa's bookstore is open in WNY today; he may schedule an AMC
"garage sale" next spring or summer...)

>>
picking up some battery cables from them and I'd like to hear 
<<

http://www.antiqueautobattery.com/prod011.htm

>>
Maybe we should enlist Chip Foost to have his way with a Gremlin
<<

And if turbocharged, maybe name it the "Foost Boost" Gremlin?

Loose fingers may do funny things,
 
http://www.chipfoose.com/profile.aspx
 
but they also open the door to an observation about loose scholarship.  Not
one book or article by acknowledged AMC experts includes anything about two
different vehicles from AMC history that are also related to one name in
Chip Foose's bio.  What's not in "Story of..." and "Standard Catalog..." is
part of why some in the old car world still laugh at AMC.
TV clowns or concours judges, the result is missing value and respect.


>>
MOST UGLY CARS I have ever seen, Warren Dorrill's "The Shark",
49 Ford ruination, it looks like an accident, really, and there's
nothing post-modern about it. Packard Pan-American -- "... whatis
unusual today may very well be the accepted thing of tomorrow"
<<

Shark attack?  From Ford

http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/334238/1
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/334238/2

to forgotten independent,

http://www.hotrodhotline.com/feature/special/04sharkattak/index.html

old could be new again.

Teague talk?  Tomorrow,

http://www.desoto58.com/dreamcar/packard/balboa1.jpg

new things -were- accepted.

http://www.transmissioncenter.net/Packard3.jpg

http://www.webmycar.com/zonecar/webacarphoto.nsf/UNID/626F077F85E4D41FC1256D
AD005EDD3E/$FILE/xSony_0080061-vi.jpg

http://www.nfol.ca/naccc/jpeg_files/CarPics/efarrell_1964parklane/efarrell_1
964parklane49.JPG

AMC folks should at least know the "Gremlin" in Simca history,

http://www.bilhistorie.no/e70/lav36.jpg

but models from the earlier decades are far more interesting. 

>From the itsy-bitsy cute

http://n.v.v.free.fr/images/simca%205%2001%20h036.jpg

to the coachbuilt beauty 

http://www.allsportauto.com/modules.php?name=Sportphoto&zl_idMD=743

to the serious racing (bitte klicken "-->" three times at first link)

http://www.motor-klick.de/WueClassic2002/Hensler/page/image6.html

and

http://photo.popmonkey.com/9905wineclassic/9905group3/big/9905G3_42_Abarth_S
imca.jpg

and 

http://www.passionautomobile.com/gd_prix_pau_historique/2003/abarth_simca_20
00_gt.jpg

Simca is worth knowing

http://www.clubsimca.com/
  
as is Falk's '59 Peugeot

http://www.club-peugeot.com/sveitsi/JPG/columbo.jpg

(compare it to a '58 M-B

http://www.mbzponton.org/mbz220s/sellswap/mb_220SE_cabrio3.jpg

or Kenosha Duesenbergs and Cadillacs; more croissant/less dough?)

http://www.allsportauto.com/modules.php?name=Sportphoto&zl_idMD=168

http://www.columbo-site.freeuk.com/car.htm


worth knowing also.