New pony/old tale

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

Then:

http://www.swbstudios.com/artwork/tacamaro1967.JPG

http://www.swbstudios.com/artwork/MVC-003F.JPG

Now:

http://www.officialbaldwinmotion.com/product.htm

http://www.amcrc.com/junk/JAVELIN.jpeg

When many fanatics are found, life can fulfill anyone's BT dreams.

When few followers are found, life can forget all of AM's history.  

Fact, Fiction, Fluff, and/or Folly.  Funny.

There are Four other automotive "F's" also: 

Fit, Feel, Fuel-efficiency, and perFormance.

Did they kill AMC?  Can they kill the Big-3?

2005-1987.  You can tell me when.  Ca. 2023?

I didn't rag on Frank or on anyone else yesterday, because I realize all here are, in effect, volunteers; I did want to make a point about seeing more than the -little picture- of what AMC means to thee or to me.  When we're dead, our cars under new ownership, our boxes of AMC-on-paper sold on eBay or recycled into magazine stock, when our memories are ashes and our brains are without electrons, if there are no permanent records --- no bound and digitized resources for future generations to find answers to any AMC questions they might have, our time spent "volunteering" will be wasted and any enthusiasm or experience we all once had will be gone.

If I can find valid information in a book or on a computer screen, I can use it again and again and again.  If the place where I saw it was an e-mail that passed "In-N-Out" like yesterday's burger, it'll surely become as forgotten as the day-before's lunch.

Every so often, I slip a little something [about AMC] that's never been noted before onto the menu: someone can read it and say, "Gee, I didn't know that!"  I sprinkled such spice in three of the most recently "lost" postings.  When they're not there to look at, "Amsecrets" are worthless. They are quickly forgotten.  They're over.  They're done.  They're gone.

The best AMC history isn't one-sided, limited, or without broad context.

It needs more readers, writers, viewpoints, and complexity to be better.

And it certainly needs more --- or at least wider --- methods of access. 

Well, since AMC time is over for another week, and there wasn't enough of it to posts more fact, fiction, folly (or, for fun, more Amsecrets), I will simply close with a Piedmontese outtake (yes, it's car-related) on Brian Nelson's:

"Falto due --- e cuerpa"

Beat that.  In metal.