Word power

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

Quote for the day:

"Back here...

Back home...

With my missions done and the roar of guns and bombs fading and faint in my
ears...

Back here, I remember now, the power of America...


Can you attribute/date those words?  Read more.


"I don't want to kill any more...

I don't want to destroy...

I want to work and build and make things live and grow."


Still wondering?  Skip to the end; you'll know.


"When Victory comes, Nash will go on...

And we will build cars in numbers three times greater than we ever have
before!"


60 years ago America mourned (FDR died 4/12/45), America celebrated (V-E Day
was 5/7/45) and Nash-Kelvinator ran that "Now I Know" ad in major US
magazines.  Back before "People" "Us" and "InStyle" mattered; back before
"SI" sold more skin than sport, back when America -thought- about the future
it faced.  Back before America whined about everthing from the cost of gas
in its oversize, overweight, overpowered SUVs to the cut of meat in its
chili bowls.  (No finger-pointing!) 

So what came next?

In 1946, Nash sold 94,000 units for eighth place (only 272 of them being
woody Ambassador Suburbans); America heard about Nash from "The Andrews
Sisters" (on Sundays at 4:30; Blue Network), from N-K's "Hit Musical
Program" (10:30; CBS) and Nash dealers couldn't meet their "low-and-medium
price" car demand.  Hudson built 91,000 units for ninth place.

[By 1949, their positions were reversed: Hudson (159,000) in ninth and Nash
(135,000) in tenth.  Studebaker (129,000) was in eleventh and Packard
(116,000), in thirteenth.  If you're still counting, Chrysler (124,000) was
twelfth, Ford (1,100,000) was number one and Buick, in fourth, sold more
cars than Nash and Hudson combined.]

In spring of the year after Nash began trying to fulfill its "three times"
promise, the man who "put America on wheels" took his last trip in a
motorcar.  He  didn't ride in a Ford or a Lincoln, but, with Pierce gone, in
the next "best" car by an American independent.  Henry Ford rode a Packard
hearse on that dark rainy day.  Ten years later, when Cadillac had become
the "best" from America, Detroit Packard had died as well.

Only weeks after Ford was transported, the president of Nash took a ride in
an Ambassador sedan around a brickyard.  Nash paced the Indianapolis 500.
Nash was tenth in sales; Hudson was eleventh.  Maybe George Mason saw an AMC
flash by his windshield.            


Question for the day: 

What does one car --- built by what accurately can be called "the last
independent" --- share with both an AMC vehicle that -wasn't- produced and
with an AMC vehicle that -was-, plus, for astute AMC list readers, what does
that one car also share with one somewhat "well-known" (as AMC info goes...)
1963 Rambler?

Have fun thinking.  Answer in two seconds.

(No, you don't have to come up with answers in two seconds; I shall post the
answers --- or at least a map to find 'em --- two seconds after posting
this.)