No way

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

>>
is anyone reproing the warner o/d?  considering how long and widely
they were used, there should be a ready market.
<<

If you drive a Chevy to the levee down Chevy Chase Boulevard,

http://www.keislerauto.com/gm/transmissions/chevy2_62-67.asp

"That's the ticket!" (if wrong SNL generation) for 5 or 6 speeds,

http://www.keislerauto.com/tools/gm_analyzer_6sp.html

but when your lead sled's a Hornet or even a Rambler American,

http://www.navarroengineering.com/

keep revving up your "market value" or it's a forgotten dream.

If it's dead enough to be forgotten by fans,

>>
He probably meant 71, but the Sportabout might not have come out until 72.
You have to admit, the Sportabout is one of the more attractive wagons ever
made
<<

http://www.planethoustonamx.com/Photo_Gallery_Nascar/amc%20ads/71_Hornet_Spo
rtabout_cargo_ad.jpg

it's just a "dearly departed" joke, indeed.   

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=282560

And when those goofball (gumball?) AMC cars are remembered today,

"The 2005 season premiere was one for the record.  It was enough that they
found a live rat in the AMC Pacer but why did the producers feel the need to
focus on excessive rat excrement?  I kept expecting to hear UB40's "Rat in
the Kitchen."  Also, what was with the wall-to-wall shag carpeting?  That
was just plain tacky."

(One viewer's comment in a discussion about whether "Pimp My Ride" has, as
they say in shoe business, already "jumped the shark" [e.g. peaked])

they're even funnier than ever.  Or maybe they're still "just" AMCs.

"Keep smilin', keep shinin', that's what friends are for."  [AMC fans?]

"In good times and bad times, 'AMC's 4ever' more, for sure, oh, that's what
friends are for."  [So where are they?  And what have they done?]

So why is AMC still dyin', AMC cars still disappearin', and AMC still no
place nobody (with aspiration to higher, um, achievement) chooses to be?   

When I bought my first in 1971, AMC asked, "If you had to compete, what
would you do?"  I assumed that AMC planned to work harder and smarter to
succeed.

When I bought my third in 1979, AMC said, "Gaze upon an American Center and
see our shining future."  Despite the fact that AMC had become both a
small-car and a -small- company when that brochure was being released, I
assumed that AMC was still big enough to work harder and smarter, and to
succeed.

When I bought my fourth in 1983, AMC pleaded, "Eagle Sport isn't just an old
Sportabout jacked up with 4WD; it's a modern version of Jeep's Grand
Wagoneer."  After Spirit and Concord disappeared, I assumed that AMC was
still big enough to work harder and smarter to make its Renault Alliance and
its Jeep-Eagle plans succeed.

When I found a List in 1996, AMC barely spoke, "If you plan to drive and
show those old Kenosha cars, this may be the best possible place to be."  I
assumed that AMC was still big enough as a collector-car hobby to work
harder and smarter to make nostalgia more than just a storage-fee dream.

When I faced facts in 200-, AMC finally whispered, "If you want to enjoy
what's left of memory, work harder and smarter to succeed now all alone.
AMC is dead, no AMC world clubs [lower case], no AMCyclopedia [online or in
print], and no smilin', shinin' circle [with script "R" and block "A" and
"AMX" inside it] of AMC friends will join in any celebrations.  Like it did
in 1971, AMC marches to its own drummers, sings its songs in its own special
keys, to "compete" in its own strange way, in its own little universe.

Dead, but not completely forgotten; still alive, but eternally unknown.

AMC was, and is, only what you think of it: nothing less, nothing more.


In good times and in bad, forever.

That's no "Answer" for those who read solely off the website, but only as
hard or smart as success can be.  Three times a failure makes a fool.