Thanks to Frank for posting Wednesday's note yesterday; let's see if I can re-send Thursday's bounced e-mail today. If that works, I might find a few minutes to jot a little Friday submission that should arrive before next Tuesday. Isn't it good that we only write reports on automotive history --- rather than make repairs on orbiting spacecraft? --- From: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:06 PM To: Mahoney, John Subject: Machine age Postings with attachments are not allowed. Your message wasn't posted. --- How would DCX design a new "AMX-Marlin" in 2005? How 'bout Javelin-AMX "bubbles" on front fenders: http://www.das-projekt.com/DE/das_design_7.html How 'bout Ambassador "cathedral" taillights also: http://www.das-projekt.com/DE/das_design_2.html AMX-circle gas fillers and Marlin-taper trunklid: http://digo.ws/2005/06/13/573/ Spirit-shape buckets and "Trendsetting" exhausts. You got it. The two-seater best of the DCX best. http://www.rsportscars.com/foto/05/exelero05_02.jpg http://www.rsportscars.com/foto/05/exelero05_05.jpg http://www.rsportscars.com/foto/05/exelero05_06.jpg Oh yeah, don't forget to mix the most popular color combo from the '65-'66 Marlin with one of the rarer paint combos on the also-rare '70 AMX. Matador Red and Black meet Shadow Mask --- indoors: http://www.rsportscars.com/foto/05/exelero05_inter.jpg http://www.rsportscars.com/foto/05/exelero05_inter2.jpg Don't forget the "revival" of that combo on '79 AMX: http://www.javelinamx.com/javhome/jwr/79amx/050904a.jpg and a shadow of black still clouding the final 1980: http://faculty.concord.edu/chrisz/hobby/80-AMXitems/pictures-80/e80-2/4sp80AMXrf.jpg But while channeling AMC, don't revive DeLorean; http://www.wams.de/data/2005/07/31/753204.html Martha might not be the last billionaire jailed. AMC is still remembered: http://autoweek.com/article.cms?articleId=102742 and AMC is forgotten: http://forums.autoweek.com/thread.jspa?forumID=228&threadID=18824 (Very few Pacer/Matador/etc. votes cast; are all Gremlins gone?) AM is in old pictures: http://info.detnews.com/joyrides/story/index.cfm?id=557 and new picture shows: http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369895&sdm=web&qtw=640&qth=400 (even if only Linc and Chevy, not Reb, show in the trailer, though...) Let's play "Know your American motor (or American Motors) trivia" Q - What make referred to its musclecar as a "Machine" before AMC did? A - A nameplate about as old as Rambler; not nearly as long gone: Olds! http://www.yearone.com/serverfiles/headline.asp?hid=Y14AB48323&Style=3 http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10076&item=4565739655#ebayphotohosting It promoted its potent 1969 4-4-2 muscle as a "W-Machine" http://www.ucalgary.ca/~csimpson/Young_small/W_index.html and after the 1970 Rebel "Machine" debuted, kept right on. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~csimpson/Mem/Ads_Large/70_442_1.jpg http://www.ucalgary.ca/~csimpson/Mem/Ads_Large/70_Olds_1.JPG (There also was an Olds Ambassador; we'll blow that one off) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7340842316 General Motors obviously wasn't too worried about AMC cars. http://members.aol.com/JMckea7747/options1.html But, if you know '71 artwork, AMC was not worried about GM. Now, if you're still hurtin' for more Hurst-AMC SC/Rambles, They were the days to restore: kindler, gentler, yet wilder http://www.webmycar.com/zonecar/books.nsf/RTAwmc?ReadForm&Id=2B1BC39986C18849C1256D32006F75DC when Tom, Dick, or Linda weren't hurtin' for "fast" rides. http://www.69olds.com/smothers.html Even faster and finer musclecars are built in America now: http://www.fordvehicles.com/cars/mustang/ http://www.dodge.com/charger/ http://www.cadillac.com/cadillacjsp/models/gallery.jsp?model=ctsv and many, many more. Where have all the kind people gone? Oh well. Here's another question for you all [?] to sleep on: Q - What 1975 AMC cues did Dick do on a 1950 Cadillac proposal? (Don't do due diligence on the Pacer; it was drawn for Packard!) Lube your brain gears; learn something new about AMC. Have fun.