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

>>
Drums are not dangerous if kept
adjusted and in good repair.

Let me first say that I HATE DISC BRAKES!
<<

I'm from 52-year-old fogy-land where the word is that rear discs aren't needed for most types of vehicles and most styles of driving.  They're fine for high-performance steeds and they look cool (or hot) under some stylish alloys, but Jack or Jill Average can stop-n-go safely on a pair of vented front discs coupled with (better separated from) a pair of finned rear drums.  When he first inspected my new '96 Impala, my favorite [70-y-o-f] BT man groaned, "Too bad it has those rear discs.  They'll be nothing but trouble."  (Sometimes, there's wisdom in age; sometimes, even history.)  

>>North of the corner of "NE 125th st and 33rd ave NE Seattle, WA" 

You're making me homesick and yearning for youth, when I View-ed from a Ridge, saw Sand on the Point, and Hurst for Laurel before I SC/Ramble-d away.  My Point?  Hunts for Yarrow in Medina or a-Broad for a Moor were my favorite ways to play.  (No Boddy will get this but Seattleites.)    

>>I'm not quite sure what the Walmart link was originally so I did

You're also making me sorry that link didn't work correctly.  It wasn't for AMC books; it was for a covered Rolodex card file --- styled by the son of the man who did quite a lot of [unknown] "outside" design work for AMC.  Too bad.

That's why I joked about "two wheels" (he has also done motorcycles) and why I counted up from file to lawn tractor to baby stroller.  I could have posted a "one-wheel" product link as well, but his newest "cutting-edge" [!] design isn't in production yet.

Here's the long link: 

http://www.milwaukeeconnect.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=27&catalogId=40027&langId=-1&productId=284456&mainHeader=Tools&categoryId=189345&mainCategoryId=362&parentProd=281173  

and a "cut-down" URL:

http://tinyurl.com/3brts 

You're welcome.  (So how do they do that exactly, without running right out of tinys?)


Notes on my own notes:

AFA tiny URLs, I want 'em short too.  No cutting-and-pasting needed.  My comment was merely to note that the more time I spend in managing technology, the less time I'll have to share (type) information; and some of that may be in danger of "dying" when I'm gone.  What to do?

AFA Fascination with the Fascination, it should interest AMC fans, for, after its "Gas-Plasma" engine phase had passed, it was to use a Wankel. Fascinating to Pacer people, and, to latter-day AMC historians, as both cars were futuristic forecasters and one car's rotary was by -Renault-.  Unfortunately it wasn't the car that survived into the AMC-Renault era.

AFA the $23,000 (our "reduced" price) Duesenberg racecar, a documented [still in that shadow-zone] and engineless recreation, it was bid to $30,000.  

AFA the sons of AMC History and a legacy of America's most illustrious independent marque (A-D-C [which was never really so-named], not AMC), I'll take a little time now to type some New-and-Old Stuff you may find interesting.

You might already know about previous Duesie revivals and that some of them involved a designer who had done work for AMC.  I won't cover all that ground for you now.  As my father said in Seattle, "Look it up!"

I will; however, cover something you should be reading about over the coming months and years --- the next Duesenberg revival --- involving Mercedes and Teague.  By the time a final fabled "J" left the factory in 1937, only 485 of them had been built.  As you saw in that auction list, some of them sell for $1.6 million today, and, as you would have seen at Meadow Brook or Greenwich or even at a sizzle-shizzle auction,   

http://www.kruse.com/auctions/verona05/Verona_Prelim.pdf

http://www.kruse.com/results/return.asp?MAKE=Duesenberg&AUC_CODE=VERONA05&AUC_BREAD=Verona%2C%20NY%202005&YEAR=2005&RESULTS=1

http://tinyurl.com/botyh

some of them win trophies but see no bids that rise above $1.4 million.

(Wouldn't $200k flag a full fleet of the finer American Motors models?)

Suffice to say, Duesenbergs of that sort are valued as the best cars of the best era for American automobiles.  Inspired, legendary, unrivaled; it's too bad the name did not rhyme

http://www.fredastaire.net/music/lyrics/yourethetop.htm

and Brewster built Royces and Fords.

Many of the finest Auburns, Cords and Duesenbergs that weren't built by Brewster, LeBaron, et al, were built by LaGrande.  LaGrande was a grand illusion, of course, but LaGrande's best body designer later was an AMC Pacer man.  Gordon M. Buehrig and Richard A. Teague shared a friendship and respect; one designed some of the most acclaimed American cars ever assembled, one designed some of the most noted American Motors cars you will remember.  But never was any Buehrig-designed AMC built, nor was a Teague-designed Auburn, Cord, or Duesenberg.  But, soon, there will be.

In January, 2007, an American equivalent to that Maybach Exelero is to be released, a 12-cylinder Duesenberg Torpedo (R/ Coupe for four which is intended to sell at the top of the heap.  Whether sales success or deft dreamscape (remember Lutz's?),

http://www.evanscooling.com/news/c7_prsRls.htm

http://www.madwheels.com/pictures.php?img=498&name=2.jpg

http://rapidcars.com/images/cunningham.jpg
http://rapidcars.com/images/c7rear2.jpg

http://www.thecarconnection.com/Industry/Industry_News/Cunningham_Legend_Reborn.S175.A3180.html

http://tinyurl.com/bnfwy

whether style-setter or eye-breaker (remember Gullickson's?),    

http://www.packardmotorcar.com/index.html 

it will be whatever it will be (but it will not be a Cord Cayserasera); the most interesting thing is that it will be a Duesenberg by a Teague.

It will borrow its "look" from Buehrig styling; depending on the usual things (remember Fastination?) it will get its "go" from an air-cooled multi-fuel four-stroke CEM by E. P.

http://www.epindustries.com/epi.html

(or, if the balloon lands, a GM SB...)

http://www.umiracing.com/gallery/Images/LS2_2.JPG

but definitely not a SOHC V-12 by M-B

http://www.autosportwest.com/listman/listings/images/28_3.jpg 

Knowing how such things fly, there may never be a new Duesenberg, but now you know enough to see what it might be, and to see which Teague.

http://automotorundsport.de/d/80329

http://duesenbergcustomcoach.com/torpedocoupe.html

Gordon & Dick are up there watching along with you.

To be continued.  Maybe.