Re: New pony/old tale

[farna@xxxxxxx]

On November 2, 2005 Mahoney, John wrote:

> Now:
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> http://www.officialbaldwinmotion.com/product.htm
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> http://www.amcrc.com/junk/JAVELIN.jpeg

Not a fair comparison! The Baldwin Motion "Super" Camaro is a brand new car, not a renovation of an old body. A company out of California has had the 69 Camaro body reproduced in Taiwan. well, subassemblies of the body are produced there, then the subassembles are put together at a plant in North Carolina, so it's "assembled in the US from parts made in Taiwan". The metal is slightly lighter gauge than the original, but of higher quality. Welding is also more extensive, so the finished produce is stiffer and stronger than the original 69 Camaro. The guy is obviously a Chevy fan. Plans are to produce a coupe (the first body is a convertible, not the coupe Baldwin is advertising, it won't be out for a few more months) and make the mods for a 67 and 68 version. No Firebird versions are planned, but it would be easy for someone to convert it "at home". If this goes well, a 67 Mustang fastback is planned, just from popularity. No Mopars -- but if they can manage another body it w!
 ill be a 66-67 Chevy II. No Javelins... ;>  You'd think a 'cuda body would be worth the investment with what hemi 'cudas go for. A modern hemi in a repro'd convertible body would be nice! 


> 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.
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> 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.

Understood, and I didn't take it as a "rag" either. I responded so that no one would get the impression that I have any control over what gets on the web sites and what doesn't. I posted a rather lengthy answer to Justin's shifter woes yesterday, and it didn't even get in the digests! It got lost somewhere out in cyberland. I sent it from work, so it may have got dumped as low priority as others were sending official messages during lunch time. I don't know, but occasionally everyone loses an e-mail. 

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> 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.

But not if YOU put them in a form where they can be saved. I've asked you before to put them in a page or two a little more collected than the tid-bits you feed us here and I'll print them in AIM. nly a small percentage of the hobby gets AIM, but I'll pass the master copies on to one of the clubs, the Kenosha Historic Society, or some other place like that before I pass on, so they will be preserved for a longer time. 

When I pulled out of the small computer hobby (old home computers -- Tandy Color Computer specifically) I presented the last "large" club with all the masters, including electronic, of several programs I wrote and sold and that I had rights to seel from others (with their permission), and of the magazine that I published for seven years. I also wrote one history/maintenance book covering all three models of the computer (sold about 400 copies) and a couple "quick reference guide" books. I gave all rights to those to the club also, and gave one website permission to post PDF copies as long as the club agreed (which they did). I made sure my work would be available even though I would no longer be supporting it. I'll do no less for AMC.


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