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

>>
I thought Tom did one too. I was thinking he did it with students???
There's a good chance I'm completely wrong and that's how missinformation
gets
started. I should be shot and quarterd, or quartered and shot! BAD MARK! BAD
MARK! 

Just kidding :] I guess I just flamed myself. Is it hot in here???

Mark Price
<<

No Mark, you're cool:

http://www.javelinamx.com/javhome/uncar/chs-4.jpg


While half Pikeville Phantom fenestration is standard-issue
late-'40s/early-'50s American elementary school

http://www.gremlinx.com/images/AMC-Pi27.jpg

and half appears to be standard-issue full-height plate-glass later American
automobile dealership showroom,

http://www.gremlinx.com/images/AMC-Pi23.jpg

it was not an uncommon look (even for smaller stores of the Big-3) way back
then.  AMC did not "design" its retail presence until days of the block logo
and, unlike many sales dictates today (some of which even butt up with ARBs
and zoning --- is there a Quonset-style "Hummer Hut" in your area yet?), but
even then, AMC didn't require most of its dealers to undertake major re-dos.

As an example, Nap AMC (which began as a Nash-Rambler dealership when
Webster NY was still a small-town place and became an AMC/Jeep/Renault/Ford
store only to be demolished when its site was bought by a national drug
chain) had similar "classroom" window units in its "new" (~1959) service
building.  In the parts portion, where goodies most precious now sold for
AMC cheap in the 1970s.  Today, you may pay $80,000 [per second] for your
Super Bowl ad, buy half an AMC/3, or get 30 more seconds [of AMC levity] for
free.  Pick your poison; cough your cash; don't choke on your consequences.


Pre- and alt- Spirit shows:  

http://www.gremlinx.com/images/Gremli210.jpg

(Chris Z. will get the idea)


AMC-Ford parts:

http://www.amclives.com/about.html

Now go find the [block] Ford logo (RWB, not blue) for "Quality Checked
Certified Pre-Owned" and compare.  Gee.


New buzz, old Hornets:

http://www.wrhs.org/library/template.asp?id=459

(As the "Battle of Kenosha" Civil Car War is lost --- again, yet, still?  No
museum, no library, no sense to me.)


>>
69 Champ 500 AMX just went through the Barrett Jackson auto auction for
about $58,000 + the 8% buyers fee bringing it to almost $63,000.00.
<<

Give or take a $1,440 Matador?  (As Everett Dirksen said, it does add up...)


New business, old AMCs:

Sold: '69 California Special [BBG] AMX for $61,560; '69 [19,370-mile] [blue]
AMX for $38,340; '70 Javelin [green] SST for $16,740 (plus a '70 Rebel
[blue] Machine for $19,980 at PB): show 'em the money; they find new Love
Boats for their car cruise.


New look, old governor:

Pirate Jesse (doo rag, dye job, dangle-bead goatee) did a Jimmy Kimmel, yet
"The Body" Ventura didn't do a Pontiac.  Or get a new Ford GT.  His "people"
(who've been calling around the country) got word a red one was incoming
here:  

http://www.frederickfordmerc.com/pages/present/flm/notlocalized/searchinvent
ory/searchnew.asp

No "going over" for this celebrity: "Thanks for your [~$300,000] offer,"
store owner responded, "we wanna keepee."

The same place had just sold a black one [serial #239] to a very much
lower-profile buyer from the car-crazy, car-culture, car-required town named
NYC.  So, back to the dojo to try to get another "Jay-style, one-of-many"
new GT.  

(But wouldn't -two- AMX/3s be even more distinctive?)


New M-B, old AMC:

"Quality is down, perception is down, image is down."

-Art Spinella, this week

"Chrysler workers' purchase of German cars [is] hoped to prop up sales of
ailing Mercedes"

-Detroit News, this week also 

There are many reasons M-B ails; many more places M-B sales may be.

This is one of yesterday:

http://c-faculty.tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp/~hmasaki/seoul2002-9/hyundai%20m-car1.j
pg

This is one for tomorrow:

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific_business/view/130248/
1/.html

Someday, Daimler-Benz-Chrysler may even regret having "buried" AMC quite so
deeply.


New car, old dream:

"Wouldn't it be sweet if they brought back wood grain sides, too?  We can
all dream."

-"Eight cars that will be the talk of the next twelve months" in 2/05

Esquire (89); one the Jeep [Grand Wagoneer] Commander...