An answer

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

One promoted Airflyte:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/collection/image_250.html

http://www.buickbombsight.org/53nash.jpg

sometimes promoting both types of air

http://www.adclassix.com/images54nash1.jpg

first, by recalling two-wheel Ramblers

http://www.splendidpeasant.com/8870.JPG

http://adattic.com/index.html?target=p_215.html&lang=en-us

(and precursors to a Rambler American)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Bicycle-Manual-1891-Gormully-Jeffery-Mfg-Co_W0QQ
itemZ7169938808QQcategoryZ7295QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphot
ohosting

http://www.bicyclemuseum.com/Html/bike6.html

http://www.fattiretrading.com/gjtandem.html

(whose ephemera-choo is nothing to sneeze at)

http://www.jeffreythomas.com/cgi-bin/jthomas/9278.html

and trying to forget two-wheel Airflytes

http://www.nostalgic.net/index.asp?S=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Enostalgic%2Enet%2Far
c%2Fbicycles%2F1939+Huffman+Airflyte+Twin%2DFlex+8%2Ejpg&Desc=

http://www.nostalgic.net/index.asp?L=227

but reviving Airflyte Ramblers with four;

http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/A4365.jpg

one, like other long-seated firms, promoted Airfoam:

http://significantcars.com/1948_hudson_commadore.htm

(The eighth photo shows what else it claimed, too)

http://www.melodiesandmemories.com/illus5.jpg

http://www.plymouthbulletin.com/pdfs/group1_1928_1939.pdf

("Calling Page 54" if you remember cop cars;

or "Where is AMC's big bible?" if you care.) 

http://www.rareads.com/scans/8012.jpg

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3671446471&category=37833

If reading & clicking has you farmutshet, before Nash nosh and AM nap,  

http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B16175.jpg

I'll post Eddie Stakes' links to Hurst first

>>
My favorite shot of Linda Vaughn, might want to share this with the 
amc-list:

http://www3.50megs.com/misshurst/linda_vaughn-034.jpg

All you want to see of Miss Hurst, never understood why there were no promo
photos of her with new Hurst SC/Rambler:

http://misshurst.www3.50megs.com/hl01.htm
<<

('cuz Airfoam would've met Airflyte?)

and then I'll let you rest in peace.

Today, Airflyte might laud Lexus

http://www.airflytecatalog.com/

and slip rings onto LAV wheels  

http://www.airflyteelectronics.com/^AirFlyte/pdf/vehicle.pdf

http://www.airflyteelectronics.com/^Airflyte/Home/

but G & J and Rambler and Hudson and American Motors are just history,
and few AMC Owners & Drivers find that history to be very interesting.

That's too bad.  They just might be missing a big part of the AMC fun.

Once, you may recall, AMC was a "World Standard of ... Car Excellence"

http://wps.com/AMC/Navarro-parts-bought/images/rambler-junk2.jpg 

and once, it was trying to raise its top-end performance, as well

>>
Just FYI, the R&D head has the following casting numbers in the
top of the head:

RD 6 34 86

and

6-11 or might be 6-71
<<

>>
obviously, if it says 6-71 it must be a reworked detroit diesel
head...
<<

but, by design or by other means, its future was blown.

http://www.jegs.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=3733&prmenbr=3
61

http://www.holley.com/types.asp?type=128

(Duck --- you might be struck with flying iron-y!)

While you're reading or writing about garage sales...

Anyone in or near Motown who collects car paper should head for 801 West
Baltimore Street on 7/30, 7/31 or 8/1/05.  The Detroit Public Library's
National Automotive History Collection will have 50,000 pieces of ephemera
available.  Anything and everything, from repair manuals to paint chips to
<ahhh> press kits, from the largest public archive [GM's is larger] in the
world.  Admission is $10 each day.  Additional info is at 313 628-2851.
Buy, buy, buy!

A final note before I really do go; after Teague's "J" car was posted here
and its Italian inspiration, Japanese precursor and a GM [far south] one-off
with which it shared more than just 1970 birth dates were freely linked,

http://www.fast-autos.net/holden/gtrx10.html   
http://www.fast-autos.net/holden/gtrx9.html

(if you're intrigued, do diligence and pay Pavlov...)

why an "X" car company passed "H" on the way to "J" was not mentioned.  I
waited and wondered if anyone would, but, in true AMC style, nothing
happened and the topic died.  For those who are interested, I'll touch that
base before sliding to home.  (It's as hot and humid here as in FL [or in
MS!], so that's quite easy.  Exit A/C and melt away.
Hotter here than in Atlanta, Dallas and LA.  Global warming?  Doesn't exist?
Fuel up a NavigatExpediTitan-ic SUV!)

Back to smaller wheels.  When struck by comments that its [1966] Le Mans
victory was achieved in a "British-built" car, one AMC competitor took its
program home.  It decided to design, build and test cars "in-house" (in
Dearborn), even though, in England, the Mk I GT40 was already underway.

Ford's "J-car" had a completely new body and chassis design (and a then-new
military aircraft material, honeycomb aluminum), weighing only 180 pounds.
It was light and fast, it was also unsafe: test driver Ken Miles died in it.

An American-chassis GT40, with stock block Kar Kraft 427 Ford wiped eight
Ferraris (by 32 miles), all the factory-king Porsches and Hall's Chevy
Chaparral off the track, and the wind-tunnel lessons learned by building
that J-car gave Ford another win in '67.  In NASCAR or NHRA, on the streets
and in the showrooms, Ford was racing to success.

Following all the success of Mustang, that much success was too much for
General Motors, Mopar and AMC to handle.  Petty played for one team; Penske,
for another.  Pony car wars were about to happen.  Musclecar mania
-exploded-.  Camaro, Firebird, Javelin, AMX, Challenger, 'Cuda.  The Ford
J-car that wasn't raced influenced so many cars to follow, including even
some that were --- and weren't --- produced by AMC.

In style, "J" spoke Italian, but in Spirit, it was American.

Don the fedora, short-sleeves, skinny tie and black glasses;
    
http://www.cardesignonline.com/images/ford-gt-jcar-1967-a.jpg

You're designing cars of tomorrow.  It's 2005 in the 1960s.  

http://www.cardesignonline.com/images/ford-mark2-1967.jpg

If you think Dodge's "H" car in "Go ManGo" is "Top Banana" today, remember
when "J" meant American from A to Z.  If you read Kevin Shaw in 5/05 MM
("not a Charger" and "missing the mark" and "an adulteration of Magnum
station wagon" that "failed to capture ... the spirit of Charger"), you'll
want to think back to J-car days.

And if you prefer the Spirit of '79 or the AMX of '69, you have just one
week to vote in the 8/05 CC contest.  If #17 (Randall of Racine) or #21
(Peter of Baldwin) are your speed, speak by 7/22 or hold your silent AMC
piece/peace.

In 8/05 SR's "Complete Guide to Muscle Cars 1962-1971, AMC is noted as
having had 2% of the muscle car market (with or w/o counting Corvette); AMC
received one- (of multi-) page coverage, with 11 AMC models listed and 2
AMXs shown.  41,609 units total.  A "little car" company, indeed.

Time to toss this and let it disappear.

Just like AMC, only smaller.  Whee!!