Wheelin' and dealin'

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

I'll combine this post with a [non-participating] list reader's note.

(Too bad AMC still can't "get along" the way it would be best served.)

AFA eBay, too bad your buyer didn't supply a current "ship to" address.

AFA Marilyn, too bad those "American Royalty" boys didn't let her live.
 
(But then, their so-called "Kennedy mystique" might've died, instead.) 

Thanks for the Wheeler store photo in OR.  And that of the BBO Javelin.

"Look again my friend...you want to see something RARER that any Big Bad Anything ever made? Look just to the RIGHT of the Javelin, that is a ultra rare 53 Panel Wagon, one of about a dozen ever made..."

Hmmm, if it's not a Moskvitch

http://www.autogallery.org.ru/k/ma/m402_Raimis_vstrechajamashina.jpg

but it looks like a Brit Ford, what is it?  Is it a Little Bad Met?

(Hmmm, but I don't think so.)

Someday, we'll sure see some AMCs sell in condition like these:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pierce-Arrow-Collection-Bodies-and-Parts_W0QQitemZ4567255882QQcategoryZ10076QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Other-Makes-1923-4-Door-REO-w-original-pink-slip_W0QQitemZ4567575822QQcategoryZ6472QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

but the rarest of other rare AMCs won't sell for more than this: 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chrysler-Imperial-1981-Chrysler-Imperial-FRANK-SINATRA-EDITION_W0QQitemZ4566893125QQcategoryZ43905QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I know a guy who has an FS that's totally untouched, from 8-track tapes to original tires, Cross umbrella to Cartier [B-pillar] crystals (in an envelope, so they don't "disappear"); its EFI is fully functional!  Now THAT'S a rare survivor!    

""Another Rambler or a mountain bike.... sorry, I don't understand how there's a choice here... ;>"

An interesting thought.  If

http://www.porsche-bikes.com/

can, why not revive "Rambler" bicycles, also?  Models could range from street ("Ambassador") to sports ("Typhoon") to off-road ("Eagle"): DCX and Schwinn (or their lawyers) wouldn't mind 

If  

http://www.cadillacbikestore.com/

and 

http://www.bmw.com.gr/products/bicycles/

can, it's Greek to me why Kenosha can't.  I'll suggest four designers: one who was just profiled in CA (if anyone can e-mail me a scan of the Mashigan article, I'd be -very- grateful; my copy "disappeared" after I had read only the first two pages --- stores have -October- in stock now when I tried to buy a replacement issue), one who drew a nice "Eagle" in 2003, one who has a new "AMX" on the drawing board (computer), and one who creates many new wheeled designs for a living.  Some run only on two wheels

http://www.shoplet.com/office/limages/CROL8932.JPG

some on four

http://jddealer.deere.com/okanagan/DealerFiles/L100.JPG

(if not in Kelowna)

http://www.deere.com/en_US/ProductCatalog/HO/series/ho_100_series.html

and some have, well, a few more.    

http://www.polarisindustries.com/en-us/Snowmobiles/2006Models/Performance/900Fusion/

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?dest=9999999997&product_id=3932598&sourceid=1500000000000001353000

(Note name joke in last two designs.)

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Watching Hope & Faith TV show, where Kelly Ripka proves reality of stupidity.  But like a train wreck, I can't not look. Anyway, tonight she is watching an electronic baby to prove that she could be a mother, yeah right!  Anyway in the park, with toy baby in carry seat, she places it on the roof of a baby blue Pacer 77ish, and then of course drives off, with no damage to the Pacer roof, luckily, but no so for the baby.
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Pacer is popular on that sitcom; "Handsome Hal" (Regis Philbin) always has one on his used-car lot; a red sedan with white vinyl appeared first. Someday, the sisters should show up in a C8 [Grasshopper Green] Gremlin with the sliding roof option: clown costumes, confusion, and fun follow.  Perfect casting.     

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First of all dropping a car by installing shorter/cut or whatever coils is not a good method.
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It's good someone [thanks, Armand] wrote that cutting doesn't "make the [best] cut."  It's OK, but if you heard what the [now-retired] director of a GM development shop (he lowered a lot of cars --- and ets --- over his years) thinks of lowering-by-cutting, you'd probably say, "Now cut that out!"  So I'll sign off on that.

http://www.rtol.net/scornell/detroit9.jpg

(Yesterday, I cranked a Maxwell [in truth, it was a rented Cobalt] and independently motored back from Motown where I'd non-commercially [woo, woo!] flown.  When young, I thought the ultimate indulgence would be a giant garage full of Full Classics (TM); now, I know -that- achievement is a huge hanger holding a private aircraft.  Friday's "free ride" ticket to Meadow Brook owns BOTH (plus much more...); he's not yet 45.  Go figure.)

No time for auction/show, can add to AMC Ink (thanks, Jock), though.

8/05 Drive!  8 pages on "The Hot One" (the '55 Chevy), especially for AMC fans, the Cole/Kobe 15-week wonder: that green sand thinwall V-8, new when, as they say, "for 1955, every manufacturer that was serious about staying in the passenger-car business had a V-8."

(Hudson, Nash, and American Motors, of course, tried to be serious with the Packard V-8; Kaiser and Willys, of course, tried not to disappear...)

Hollow pushrods that let the top of that engine "get lubricated without adding extra oil lines or machining oil passages in the block" also led to the AMC V-8, eventually.  And to its own lubrication issues.

This magazine issue also has 2 pages on the vanished-in-the-early-'90s [Ford, not Chevy] El Matador recently seen parked on a San Luis Obispo [only in California] street.  The AMC List once had a smart and active contributor from around there.  Another good one gone.

8/05 CCMR reports how a 30k-mile #3 '68 AMX 390/4s (with Trendsetters) sold for $14,900.  "The AMC muscle is strong and appreciated by fewer people than a Ford, GM or Mopar, which allows more bang-for-the-buck."  Also in Palm Beach was some sort of "time capsule" '57 AM (can't read my scribble) with 1,997 miles that sold for $30,000.  A #3 '61 Met is listed and a #3 '77 Jeep Wagoneer 72k went for $2,400 in Oklahoma City.  On the #3 '68 AMX, also 390/4s, that DNS for $17,500 in Kansas City, this was the comment:

"While the AMX was a very potent muscle car in its day, their [sic] selling prices seem to be anywhere from stagnant to slowly rising.  Once you get past the Chevy vs. Ford thing, all the other muscle cars just don't sell as well.  Bid to the top of today's market." 
   
9/05 CC has a '74 Gremlin 360/AT on p. 19 (Smokin'), a 1300-hp 485-cid Gremlin on p. 36 (Wheelin'), AMC on p. 87 (Brakin') and CA black-plate Rambler on p. 100 (Tastin'): CC'll try anything to sell mags.

8/05 SCM is a Pacer edition: "odd cars" and "Affordable Classics" and, at $1,400 for a '77 wagon, both of those things.  '53 N-H for $57,500, '60 Met coupe (~16k) for $5,514; '86 CJ-7 Renegade with only 4,487 mi. for $9,700, a #3 '75 Pacer (~95k) "nice enough for the local AMC meet" for $4,357, and a Peter Troost (of MA) requesting an -AMC Eagle wagon- 
article.  Point him to AW.