From JM (a)

On two continents over two weeks, the weather was cold; on the AMC List, the
new is still old.  For all who know what "SNAFU" means, enough said.  I only
read online; no names, no addresses, no sense that AMC is alive.  Who is
"leading" the AMC world and what was "working" 1/26/05 at 23:39?

When I was seeing a 2006 DTS in DC last week, I was thinking about what
America has become.  America when I was new (not that I saw a Cadillac
[white/red Eldorado convertible] back in 1953) as lives lived on easier
streets.  This was only my third in-person inaugural parade (cold, if not
-coldest- [1985]; inspiring, if not "inspirational" [1981]), yet it was the
most automotive-ly lacking.  No Pierces or Packards rolling up Pennsylvania
Avenue; no V-16s purring from Fleetwood hoods.  No crisp Continentals by
Lehmann-Peterson, not even many Bubba-bodied Broughams.  America now must
ride behind inches of Kevlar and Plexiglas, in armored black trucks
protected by two [white] trucks on each side.  It's sad to live long enough
to "see" history; it's impossible to fathom what fifty years more may bring.
In 1953, an American Motors Corporation was both dream and promise; in 2005,
AMC lives only in fading American memories.

I also was thinking about the "forgotten" 1974 AMC Ambassador(s) which
played a small role in America's Presidential history.  I've never been
successful at finding fact about those wheels, but, since 12 or 18 years
hence, I may be disinterested or dead, I asked again after that part of
"lost" American Motors history.  Executive or Treasury?  Secret Service or
Motor Pool?  Where and how acquired?  Where and when de-accessioned?  Silver
paint?  Woodgrain?  Interior trim?  Do photographs, logbooks and documents
survive?

Departments transfigure, office locations move, appointees come and go; the
only sure way to "know" AMC history is to keep it alive and viable.  Today,
AMC can't even keep its discussion lists well tuned and running.  SNAFU is

AMC.