Electric start...

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

If the Solargen that converted Sportabouts is not the same as SolarGen, the
latter still will keep the light shining on any AMC models parked at Gatwick
during nights (OK, it's England) and days to come.

http://www.solargen.biz/products.htm

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0300business/0100news/tm_objectid=15194608&me
thod=full&siteid=50082&headline=solargen-keeps-the-sun-shining-into-the-nigh
t-name_page.html

(If you've ever traveled in Wales, you'll like that URL...)

http://www.minitrains.20m.com/pages/fairreport.html

(If you've traveled in NZ or Thailand, you'll not be impressed...)


If you travel to MI, you'll see something new near Hickory Corners and it's
not whole grain corn flakes.  The Gilmore recently bought its new hemi back
from CA.  Supposedly the sole SOHC [read more if interested]

http://www.prewarcar.com/read_article.asp?ID=1446

10-liter 60-horsepower 4-cylinder Pungs-Finch [Detroit-built; bicycle
beginning; Packard prologue; read the biographical sketch on page 168]  

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mi/county/tuscola/det/detfer-fli.htm

runabout to have survived.  (Here's a contemporary P-F model.)

http://www2.artcenter.edu/carclassic/cc04/PhotoGallery/20.htm

Since you may be screaming, "Where's the AMC content?" now, I'll give it to
you.  That newly-bought hemi P-F Limited was rescued from its dusty Detroit
storage by three old-car lovers in the early 1950s.  One found it, one
restored it and one installed it in his Long Island auto museum. In reverse
order, they were famous collector Henry Austin Clark, famous brass-era
expert Leonard Davis and to-be-famous Packard designer Richard Teague.
After kicking up some big money (several collectors [including a famous one
who still won't buy an AMX/3] were privately flashing cash about) and
risking real kickback (cranking that much old motor), for it to come home to
where it was built and discovered must make Dick proud.     

>>
It's my understanding that he used the Javelin that he was given as a "Mule"
to develope bolt on body mod kits that he later sold to the general public.
Aside from that I have no other knowledge regarding a custom Javelin and
I've never seen one of the body mod kits.
<<

I've either seen (or own?) both an ad -for- and an article -on- the
Barris-bod mod.  Shouldn't one (or both) be somewhere on the great big AMC
world-wide web by now?  (Even though, IIRC, Barris really didn't much
"beautify" that already-rather-beautiful AM body...)