From JM (b)

>>
Stoker engines show your AMC intellect!!
I managed to misspell stroker and use the word intellect in the same
sentence, gotta love Mondays.
<<

That's OK; you were fired-up under back-to-work steam

http://www.wcra.org/features/double-heading-photos.htm

or were recalling AMC as an independent automaker known to   

http://steamingdownsouth.com/Doble/doble-e18-42.jpg

use a few Big-Three-sourced mechanical bits and pieces.

(A shop view of the very Doble attached to that very Ford lever is in my
2004 album!  I'd be more "stoked" to share with it list readers --- were AMC
not so AMC.  SNAFU.) 

>>
And in the first part of 1988, The small cars got them again, this includes
Concord.
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That's OK; you were brought to a stop when Lido

http://www.lambocars.com/framed/others/portoi.htm

added "e" to AMC to become LHS via Italy -and-   

http://www.masswheels.com/IMG/03/03/18/030318JUST1007.jpg

had Chrysler arrest development of tri-tri-try alliance  

http://www.daimlerchrysler.ca/CA/03/EN/CORPORATE/1,,CA-03-EN-CORPORATE-DCC-H
ISTORY-1990,.html

(tri-color, tri-country, try AMC, Renault, Eagle -and- Dodge nameplates)
which truly ended the age of American Motors as much as did assembly of the
[concurrent] final Grand Wagoneer. 

>>
Boy, it would be nice if the list would permit "bold face", "underlines" and
"italics" to emphasize various points. But since it doesn't, I need to use
CAPS instead.
<<

(That's OK; you were yelling "THIS" but meaning "_this ," "-this-" or "*this
" instead... 

>>
Nothing used to rust like a Willys... :)
<<


Except a Studebaker?  Ever seen "skunk stripes" down any '60s fender?