Proving ground

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

Q - What to do with the $2 billion GM paid NOT to take over your debt?

A - Spend a good chunk of buying Ferrari's LESS-profitable twin brand!

Ah, Italia...

>> 
Thanks for pointing out the gramatacul errurs in mye emales.
I precihate it vury much!
<<

Thanks for noting, but my "moot/mute" moment meant I should speak (blog?)
far less, not that anyone -else- was guilty of a "boo-boo"      

http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/gutenberg/images/webstertxt.jpg

(they didn't yet exist in the very first [1828] American edition

http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/gutenberg/images/webster.jpg

which old Noah published at age 70 [equivalent to about 105 today?] although
he had built his first BBS [not his first BBB or BBG but his first
"Blue-backed Speller" book] in 1783.  (At 25, he already had a "need for
speed...)  

Speaking of which (famous AMC words), Todd Jesme may have one for

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/3222/SHOWPIC1.HTM

(the thirteenth ["Doo-doo, doo-doo; doo-doo, doo-doo"] photo); if it isn't
"writ large" enough on that rear signboard thingy to be seen, maybe it's
time to [inter] change an AMC for a BT.

http://www.prismacars.com/images/camaro.jpg

Or am I just an old spoilersport for car-hobby details?


>>
It needs a "BOX" where you can take your Article that you 'Select
All'ed -+ copied from your page - and 'Paste' into the "Box" without a
Learning curve .

Nothing is more prohibitive to people contributing than having to become Jr.
Journalist Data Entry Elite Literate prior to  conundrum in their dropping
off something interesting
<<

I'm not Wiki-Wonky in an AMCyclopedia factory (yet good-looking websites can
make info-seeking as "salivatory" as chocolate bars and the hottest of new
automobiles), but my Teague bio isn't there due to technophobia: it's
popping up elsewhere (in Portuguese in Brazil!?) since 1999 because there's
still no genuine hobby-wide AMC structure to hang it to.  What's the state
of AMC when we're not quite sure about the state of one of its oldest,
best-known clubs?  Studebaker has a museum; Nash-AMC has a room.  Packard,
Pierce and A-C-D are thriving as collector-car success stories; AMC (save
for its new role as the alternate muscle-money-making machine) seems rather
rattling along.  Where's the desire to grow and to improve?  List, forum,
chapter newsletters, club magazines?  Where's the AMC beef?

So Brien may be right about one reason there's soy in the burger of AMC ---
don't scream, V-friends, I eat tofu (and Angus) too --- but there's more to
it than technology.  Dare we wonder if there's AM Mindset served with our
famous Rambler Mentality? 
        
And, no, Brien, there's no old Craftman sprinkler to part out.  I'm as
"Rambler Mentality" and frugal (aka cheap) a penny-pincher as there can be
but I didn't expect a replacement Roebuck without an exchange.  I -did-
suggest it go to Sears' Garden Museum.  I was serious.  The sales staff
surely thought I meant a steel crypt.

Speaking of cryptography, one reader wrote re my challenge yesterday. 

You may (or may not) recall it:

>>
"I had an Endura bumper shipped via them last year for my GTO..." 

I think I'll send a "not-in-the-AMC-books-or-websites" historical AMC photo
to the first reader who can "brake" that vintage reference at a current
American "X" car.  Can you back up and drive ahead in history?
<<

That reader wrote:

"John your emails are normally cryptic but this one's an achievement. What
am I supposed to be drawing from this? Thanks and hope you are having a good
day."

Thanks backatcha; my tales from the crypt are more fun than creepy so my fun
fact that bumped Endura, brakes and an American-made X of 2005 together was
this:

http://www.endura.com/products.asp

Now you'll all know something your car pals don't and, when every Indy 500
runs, you'll also be able to bore your friends with a James Melton musical
old-car story.  Prove to 'em that AMC lovers are independents, not dummies.

If you like AMC or NASCAR and you want to be basking in Daytona sun this
weekend but you're stuck in Boston (New York, Toronto, Anytown) snow, you
can prove that cars are art (and one work of art has an AMC connection, if
you speak Italian words such as "Scaglietti" and "Bizzarrini") in the frozen
north.

http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/cars/default.html 

If that fails, you can prove your coffee table is worth $60

http://www.artbook.com/0878466851.html

or you can prove yourself to be both smart and AMC cheap.  Yeah!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0878466851/qid=1108677980/sr=1
-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-8229752-2710467?v=glance&s=books

Right now, you'll only prove yourself early; it's a Gremlin-day release.