Stoned

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

40+ years ago, skipping stones on the Sound, I wondered if they returned as
sand and gravel mixed with [Portland] cement.  Would they be concrete
block/pours to build something worthwhile?  Could they vanish into black
depths today and rise sky-high tomorrow?  Would they re-appear shiny new on
someone else's shore?  Would they then be lobbed by some other kid or put in
a shoebox?  Were they igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary "earth history"
or simply rocks to be thrown?

Maybe I was practicing for AMC, since my posts here are ALWAYS aimed at
American automotive topics.  If any loose "nuggets" of information don't
wash onto every beach today, just call them AMC "steppingstones" toward
tomorrow.

Read a little, learn a little; laugh a lot en route.  Free to be.  AMC.    

Did no one bother to compare the [Arctic Boy] '67 Ambo wagon rear photo
(which didn't link by clicking) with the '67 Marlin bumper view?  Did no one
note the generational difference between the side-by-side Ohio AMC show
cars?  Huh?

Sunk like those old stones of Puget or simply grains of AMC sand...

>>
It's easier with Twelve Fingers
Date: Thursday, January 6, 2005 09:43 PM
From: Brien Tourville <hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxx>
<mailto:hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxx?subject=It%27s%20easier%20with%20Twelve%20Fingers>
<<

Whether Winters rode to the S.S. Poseidon in a 1972 Matador taxicab or
Winslet was driven to the R.M.S. Titanic in the 1912 Rambler 73 "Cross
Country" seen on Southampton's dock, Bart, Binky, Bozo or Brien are all free
to sink-or-swim in America.  They're not victims and survivors of tsunamis
and they're not being killed and maimed in Iraq.  They can do what they like
doing and they can reap the rewards that those who make (or made) America
great give (or gave) to them.

Whether they "give the finger" or clap two hands, they're lucky to learn (or
not to learn) about AMC or about anything else.  Every day is a gift to
everyone living; making every day be better is everyone's life task.

Ain't life grand?
     
For today's useless AMC facts, Erik NASH shot James Cameron's miniature (on
his budget, 45' was miniature) boat and his [employer's] website is "sick"
(do you speak Surfer?) and slick as well.  Open your eyes if you want to.

http://www.digitaldomain.com/     

"Jacob NASH" in the thirties song was John Jacob Astor.  

http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/titanic/titanicaex.htm

Lawd, he certainly could've filled a garage with AMX/3s and SS/AMXs.

(Can you pay YOUR fare...?)

>>
For all those who hate multi make swaps, remember that hot-rodding all
started with gearheads swapping all types of different
engines/trans/suspensions/etc. in their favorite cars for better
performance.
<<

And they also rocked around the clock, swapped around a family tree and
rodded a Nash with AMC power.  Maybe someday somebody somewhere will be able
to see the '33 Ambassador --- with 390 --- that I recall seeing way way back
in the '80s.  The 1980s, that is; I'm not stone yet. 

>>
If Rambler Americans (for example) become a popular platform with
350 Chevy's in 'em then fine, especially if it led to repro
chassis and rubber parts! Weirder things have happened -- Willys
coupes etc popular all out of proportion to the interest in the
car as a whole.
<<

And maybe we won't plow through our half-dozen (or more) monthly hot-rodding
magazines (as I just did recently) without seeing one Nash, Rambler or
American Motors model.

Or maybe the $16,000 "celebrity history" Gremlin in HMN (256) still for sale
near Buffalo (I haven't looked into/at it; have YOU?) and the '67 Rambler
Rebel (573) with "289 engine" (Ford or Studebaker mill?) one of the "only
400 manufactured" with "red camera grain fenders/doors" are more your style.
If you learned about AMC history --- and the seller hasn't --- you may be
AMC glad. 

http://www.netwiz.net/~tcar/briarcliff.html

Unless he calls the cops to come in their $15,000 faux "Nash Statesman
Classic" cruiser (529), in which case they (or you) may become AMC mad. 

Anyone who sneers at a red Teague Packard (541) hardtop may be AMC bad.

No HPOF American Motors among the Hershey photos strikes me as AMC sad.

Or maybe it's just the rocky road of life.

Feel free to throw stones.

"All's I know is, I'm gettin' straight As and that ain't not bad."

-AMC Gremlin-child (14-year-old wannabe) Bart Simpson.  Oh, yeah.