Words and photo II

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

Until then, I'll finish up my posting with facts, figures and fun.

And until then, I'll let you play an independent "Remember" game.

Remember AMC's history?  Far from daily list fodder: still untold. 

Remember quiz questions?  Three times more in boxes: still unasked.

Remember design heritage?  Huge tracts of AMC land: still unstaked.

Remember Stakes?  Benvie?  The AMX/3 restorer?  Overseas AMC fans?

Remember a good AMC List?  As big as American Motors once had been?

Remember what went wrong?

It wasn't too many AMC enthusiasts posting too many words to be read.

It was too few AMC fans posting too loudly on too little without tact.



Quote 1

"We've been knocked from the ring but we've got to come back in."

No, not Clint Eastwood in "Million Dollar Baby."

Edgar F. Kaiser in July 1953 on falling sales.  Not too long after
Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson became American Motors, Kaiser and Frazer became
automotive memories.


Quote 2

"We know the comeback trail is tough and uphill, but we believe we're tough
enough to keep taking those upward trips."

No, not Clint Eastwood in "Hang 'Em High" or "Rawhide."

Robert Laughna in April 1956 on regaining share.  He was Packard-Clipper
Division Manager for Studebaker-Packard Corporation and only two months
later, he would order a "hurry-up" project: for fall introduction, turn
Studebakers into Packards at the lowest possible cost.  "Packardbakers"
would be sold temporarily until an all-new Packard line-up was ready for
1958.  Few Packard historians may remember his name today but fewer AMC
experts may remember that the man who filled his order was Dick Teague.


Quote 3

"Won't there come a day when people will be concerned with the cost of doing
things?"

No, not Clint Eastwood in "Dirty Harry" or "A Fistful of AMC List Crap."

George W. Mason in October 1950 on making sense with car ownership.  As
President of Nash-Kelvinator, he thought even a post-war, pre-fabulous,
Fifties America should think about how its future could be affected by the
present as much as by the past.

Could have been talking about AMC as hobby fifty-five years later?

Let's send him some proof that AMC's past is still alive in 2005:

http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosconsumer/0503/02/G02-104742.htm

http://info.detnews.com/autostalk/lettersindex.cfm?topic=car_of_week050218&f
orum=autostalk

(and perhaps it's not even the "best" AMX/3 to have survived...)

Mason likely couldn't even -fit- in it (post if YOU know how much he
weighed), but he'd surely enjoy seeing an AMC "failure" now be voted a
success.

He's not the only one, probably.

That's up to you, not to me.


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