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

>>I noticed the "V-9".  Now that's an engine I'd like to see!!

No vay, Jose, but see how Wasp and Hornet nines led to V-days

http://www.aviation-history.com/engines/pr-1937.htm

and how a car born in the same vein and same annee as an AMC

http://tinyurl.com/bjdqk

http://tinyurl.com/86npr

(As you mentally flip, ask yourself which is better styled!)

also purportedly passed a passel of Porsches to the nines.

http://www.qv500.com/lamborghiniurracop5.php

(If the second-half B&W photos don't appear, reload, SVP...) 



How often does any Little Car get to meet its Big Brother?

How much American Motors Rambling would they try to share? 

How much does a like-new 42 year-old Ambassador sell for? 

http://tinyurl.com/d95wu

Clearly more than $7100.

http://tinyurl.com/7sfbs

How about a "creatively" two-toned 33 year-old Javelin?

http://tinyurl.com/ae8oy

2000 fewer greenbacks?  Quite a fistful of dollars!

http://tinyurl.com/bn6sl

Great, you say, all wired up; how much for an AT Chevy?

http://tinyurl.com/bobfs

http://tinyurl.com/aggey

Aggey, gaggy; good grief!  Them thangs cost as much as Mopars!

http://tinyurl.com/8te6w

Leaving lotsa space for appreciation; AMC must -earn- respect.


How can America build great new cars without building -minds-?

The DPL NAHC exhibit finally reeled in its Marlin gouache: caption now reads "1966."  Text still reads "1967."

Not firing on all 9 cylinders?

The WPC AMC is 400 degrees AMX hot: the VOE pdf to VFS instead?  Not.

Running rough for **6** weeks?

Too few "auto" perfectionists.

Pat wrote me at 15:48 today that those web folks would fix that machine.

The wrenches flew as Mopar's pit crew did what crews are supposed to do.

Exactly 17 minutes later, she wrote that the problem was fixed.  It was!

See, America -can- build better cars and websites if it sets its mind to.

Too bad it doesn't do that like it used to, and on the earliest laps out.

If you visit IP or via IT, now you can steal a look or a read on the AMC.

http://tinyurl.com/dmf6y

http://chryslerheritage.com/pg6023.htm

While you're there, you will also want to check out "The Last Cowboy" (did you all see the first film in an old AMC theater?), as imagined by one Chrysler Jeep stylist, a designer since 1983, when "Day Dawned on Cherokee."  There's
nothing more American than a Western.  "Nobody calls me mister with my boots off" old Coogan once said.  Nobody can stay on top without working harder and being smarter than the best of the rest.  In America, Europe, Japan or Korea.       

http://chryslerheritage.com/pg210.php?op=item&id=26


How about some NOS quotes to chew on? 

"We still haven't made up the business we lost with Oldsmobile."

- Mark LaNeve, General Motors VP of Sales, 11/17/2005

"Look at where Toyota is, that's where we want to be."

- Jason Vines, Chrysler VP of Communications, 11/17/05

Toyota once wanted to be Big like the 3.  Now they dream of being like the big T.  (What are your dreams for AMC?)

Vines served as Ford VP of Communications from 2000-2002, Nissan [NA] VP of Public Relations from 1998-2000, as a Chrysler flack from 1983-1998 [ultimately as VP of Product and Brand Public Relations], and he'd worked with Lee
(not Marvin) on "The Last Days of American Motors" --- a tearjerker, indeed.  Not available on either VHS or DVD;
eventually, not even to be screened in little art-house theaters like this.  Cellulose nitrate film stock doesn't last forever and is known for spontaneous ignition.  When it burns, get out.  Its rate of combustion is ~15 times that of wood in any form and when its air supply is restricted, it can burn with or without flaming.  It can make copious quantities of not-so-Mellow Yellow smoke.  Gases are extremely poisionous (and contain traces of cyanide.)  

Wouldn't you rather be shot by a rubber gun?         

"I tried being reasonable; I didn't like it."

- Clint Eastwood.  (Somehow, I could concur.)