B & B

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

>>
No car so no Kenosha trip in the offing, unfortunately.  Still, if
there's anything I should look for in Mad, I'd love to know. :-)
<<

Lots to see right there, Gwen: conservatory reopens this Saturday

http://www.olbrich.org/

or, if you like buildings as much as building AMCs, lots of Wright stuff to
be seen in or near Madison.  Public and semi-public places

http://www.mononaterrace.com/

(one to remind you of one one-year-only AM grille!) 

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/flw/unitarian02.jpg

http://oldtimer4.webpark.pl/61_Rambler_Ambassador.jpg

and some private homes are there for your viewing pleasure

http://www.dgunning.org/architecture/Wisc/wischomestitle.htm

and at the master's self-serving altar, pre-season tours just began, 

http://www.taliesinpreservation.org/

so if you can't wing it to Wingspread or ramble to Racine, you'll "wax
ecstatic" over many options available to polish your auto mind. 

http://www.rubylane.com/ni/shops/ashelford/iteml/rl-71599#pic2

Before leaving, as they say, you should "read more about it."  

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1879483513/broadacrallwrigh/102-18110
51-0742505

Remember that "Berkeley-of-Wisconsin" has more bicycles than cars, so, to
keep peddling, breakfast every day with a big bowl of AMCs.

http://www.rubylane.com/ni/shops/kitbarry/iteml/0078#pic2

You'll get the best and "feel up-and-at-em" with a hot cup of Nash's.

http://www.rubylane.com/ni/shops/ogees/iteml/2442#pic1


As Typhoon blew in and Gremlin jumped out the first week of April, I wasn't
surprised no one mentioned Nash-Healey*, but I was surprised that not one
peep

http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/102spring2004_Web_projects/Kathy_maple/car%20bun
ny.png 

(or, for those who compactly chronicle Gremlin history)

http://www.millikin.edu/staley/fluff/trip2.jpg

was heard in this vale of AMC (or this veil of AMC tears, where "they tears
at each other 'til ain't none left to say 'peep') on another 35th
anniversary**.  End of March through beginning of April, 1970.   Another
story untold.  The way AMC goes.  Away.

I'm also not surprised that no one's written on what's new.  At 

http://www.tecnospacenet.it/amn/amn03/lista.asp?rubrica=libreria

search for "Bizzarrini."  Do the same at other sites such as
  
http://www.ewacars.com/books.html

or get yourself to same "knowledge portal" using "AMX/3" at

http://www.motorbooks.co.uk/review.asp?bookid=63313

or get smart without budging from Barcalounger and beer 

http://www.motolit.com/biiwigo.html

or get there while eBaying at the AMC moons.

http://search.ebay.com/bizzarrini_W0QQ

Or maybe that's not the AMC way to "B."


>>
The author, John Matras, should be thanked for this contribution.
I couldn't find any way to contact him.
<<

I'll give the need some Espace before pushing on.  (Tack an AMC-Renault
badge on the baby!)

(If you don't get that joke, you may, as Jeff Foxworthy could say, be a real
AMC expert...)

http://dinsen.net/espace/modeller

Matras won the IMPA Purdy Award, the WAPA Golden Quill, wrote four books
(all on imports),

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author
=John%20Matras/102-1811051-0742505

wrote for many car magazines, and on a '68 AMC Javelin SST 290 [!] in the
10/22/90 issue of AW.

Since TJ's serious, I'll send him Matras's e-mail address and phone numbers.

I've heard -nothing- from the list inquirer who sought some CA contact info.

Maybe that's just the way AMC is happy to be.


*After just over one hundred aluminum 1951 Healey roadsters were built (from
12/50 through 3/51), Nash went back to the drawing board.  Literally.  Pinin
Farina designed a completely new body for the '53 Nash-Healey and had it
ready in time for debut at the 2/52 Chicago Auto Show.  In 1/53, the hardtop
was added and Nash --- soon to be American --- Motors had something to show
off.  Looking good and running LeMans with Talbot and Ferrari?  The new AMC
to be?

**Twelve days after AMC showed its Italian-American supercar in Rome, Ford
took the wraps off its new-and-improved version of DeTomaso's Mangusta in
New York.  The car could reach 60 in under 6 seconds and fly to 165.  It was
named Pantera and would cost about $9000  AMX/3 could race right alongside,
could [literally] fly above 160, and would sell for about $12000.  More than
5600 Panteras flew from 1970-1974 (and more flew thereafter, just not from
US Ford coops...), but AMC didn't fly where Nash-Healey had flown.

About a dozen years later, a Ford beat an AMC with a similar idea once more.
You'll see how if you ever see drawings for a 1980s "aero" Spirit AMX Turbo.

It was much more attractive --- and by more than a nose.

http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B28696.jpg

Are April Fools those AMCers who are happy not to know?

Or are AMC Fools fans happy to know someone else knows?

http://www.mcarsweb.com/americanmotors/amx3sciabola.htm


"This is becoming a nightmare, this wonderful dream."

 - Shareholder Hans Richard Schmitz at the Tuesday DaimlerChrysler meeting
in Berlin.  Shares are still below their 1998 value and "costs are too high;
[product] durability inadequate" was heard.  If you believe D-B (or AMC)
could thrive as smaller companies, think again.  Big is still the ONLY way
any automaker can survive.

http://www.forbes.com/2005/04/04/cz_jf_0404flint.html