Re: Cool Hand Luke

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 farna@xxxxxxx wrote:

> This is not true for all. Many here do buy parts, and pay for
> events. There are some that don't, and other that just want/have
> to make the best use of the funds they have available (re my post
> about not using the Aero hubs).

I don't think that as a category, AMCers are really much stingier
than a comparable bunch of car nuts.

When there are 100,000 Chevy fans, 1% of them are spending big
bucks on crate motors and rotisserie restos; but 1% of 1000 AMC
fans is just not a big number. There's more like a million or two
Chevy nuts; Jeg's has a separate catalog for them.

A good number of the AMXs I see at even local events, most of thme
don't look like stingy half-assed jobs, they mostly look f'ing
great.  Rarely do you see a botch job, but a fair proportion are
"low bucks".  That's usually checking account balance not tightwad
status.

At local events I see DOZENS of total crap Chevy and Ford stuff,
real botch jobs. There's certainly many of them in the same sort
of camp as our (just an example) AMXers, and a few big bucks jobs,
but there's that proportion again.



While I think it's partly true AMCers don't take AMCs as seriously
as maybe they ought to (the sort of thing John Mahoney rants on)
but most AMCs (not most Ramblers...) are just now getting to an
interesting age, where actual perspective can take place amongst
the non-brand-fanatics. Lots of other makes have already gotten
old enough such that their "classic" designs look it. Even 10
years ago a lot of AMCs were just old cars, in spite of a few
prescient amongst us.