It never rains on parades --- and in California --- 'cept when it does. Jeep's pickup is swell, so it shall sell well --- 'cept if it doesn't. http://automobiles.honda.com/new_models/landing.asp?bhcp=1&BrowserDetected=T rue http://media.mitsubishi-motors.com/pressrelease/e/motorshow/detail1201.html http://www.fhi.co.jp/english/news/press/2005/05_01_11e.pdf http://www.media.suzuki.com/auto/photography/concept_vehicles/concept_x/phot os.php Listen to "It's Raining Truck" by GM Ford Mopar(as covered by Kia Hyundai), also. It's not 1970 on AMC turntables. It's not even 1988 in a Land o' Lee Jeep dream. It's 2005 heading fast toward 2025. It's a very different "New Day" for America. And 2005 is five even longer decades from time >> http://www.petersen.org/default.cfm?docid=1034 << where/when/who a great USA age started. First came a costly Chrysler; then a middle-priced Studebaker WITH a big Packard, then an economy car that almost made American motoring history. Almost a Rambler; almost the first GTO. Because "Tri-five" always means '55-'56-'57 Chevrolet --- 'cept when it doesn't. (Can't say you don't know the correct musclecar --- and Muscle Car --- history!) >> * AND volunteer to put it up on the web for free forever if for some reason amcyclopedia didn't. Or as a second copy << AND scanning every piece of paper AMC ever published to make online AMC documentation the car-hobby's best. If the thousands of "us" with hoards of AMC stuff cooperated, "our" repair, restoration, research and recreation resources would become the collector world's paragon. AMC would be "best" --- after a lifetime as a "so-so" and/or a "joke." And when AMC fans join Larry in Pahrump (which means "water flowing from rock" to vineyards in the Mohave.), making AMC "music" V-8-6-4 style (and I don't mean in their 1980s DOD Kenosha Cadillacs) going to/from a "musical" repast http://www.westernhorizonresorts.com/pahrump_valley_winery/symphony_restarua nt/restaurant_1.htm (where low taxes make for America's fastest-growing retirement area...), they may also have a chance to cooperate. An AMC "Winternational" near Las Vegas rocks --- 'cept when it doesn't. The future of AMC is up to the AMC fans alone --- Gladiators every one. Whine on. Did anyone else hit a 404 (and I don't mean a Peugeot) with these URLs http://faculty.concord.edu/chrisz/hobby/80AMXitems/Information/production/Ka mmbackStory.html http://faculty.concord.edu/chrisz/hobby/80AMXitems/Information/production/pr oduction.html or, as with his Marlin link(s), am I just hitting a "bump-er" in the road to AMC learning? We'll return for more Ambassador/Marlin rear bumper impact testing --- on another "Dateline"