Fair

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

I see that yesterday's text finally showed up at AM Central late this
afternoon, so I'll give today a try.  If you didn't check the archive to see
what else was, ahem, delayed, here's a heads-up.  Depressing to see AMC fail
again.

>>
1.  Everyone should have to be poor at some time in their life.
2.  Everyone should have to be a waiter (waitress ) at some time 
3.  Everyone should have to drive a Volkswagen Beetle, Chevette, Pacer 
<<

1. Everyone's poor in something sometime; if not in dollars, in sense.  

(No matter how rich one becomes, there's always someone else richer...)

2. Two summers' bussing/waiting in LaLaLand'll end anyone's illusions.

(All that glitters under its golden sun 
 
http://www.axisimages.com/la_places/belairhotel/mov_belair.html

is not what it seems [nor made of gold])

http://www.hotelbelair.com/

3. Twenty-six years ago, Thursday, May 10, 1979, I ordered a Spirit.

I think that qualifies as a small, inexpensive fourteen-year drive.

By the time options were added, a $4000 AMC climbed to $6000, but it still
was a Beetle/Gremlin/Pinto/Chevette-class machine.  I wore them down right
up to closing time and I left sure about the price discount.  Less sure was
I about the color chosen.  I was torn between British Bronze and Alpaca
Brown.  Hmmm.  One was recently popular (if usually called Pewter) and still
kicks up a 2005 Sandstorm;

http://www.gm.com/automotive/vehicle_shopping/quickfacts/pdf/05Cadillac_STS.
pdf  

http://www.cadillac.com/cadillacjsp/models/gallery.jsp?model=sts&section=col
orExt#

the other has been unavailable (on domestics and imports) for decades.
Someday, Caramel Firemist will be back on Buicks (if Buicks are still being
built then) and so, too, will Packard --- yes, Packard again --- British
Bronze. 

http://www.artfact.com/artfact/sampleLot.cfm?sample=112

But those who remember the Century of Progress' "best car" color (hint, it,
too, was Packard's) can look forward to a return of Alpaca Brown someday as
well.  Next time, though, it won't be on an American Motors car.  As it'd
been.

There's a Packard-AMC "history" of that paint color in my '04 photo album.
Too bad there's just not enough time to look up its URL right now (and,
assuming that its passwords can be found...), to check/update it to share
with you. 

Too bad also if you've never seen any American Motors' family photos from
that fair.  Do you know what Nash showed?  


Oh, well.