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

>>
Henry Ford was asked to build the Merlins first.
He turned the War Department down because he was such
an isolationist.  This is before December 1941.
<<

Yes, but by June of that very year, Ford was already assembling Merlins at Urmston, Manchester --- in a purpose-built plant near one at Trafford Park dating back to Model Ts, so Henry didn't wait until Pearl Harbor to see war clouds gathering.  Furthermore, on June 23rd of -1939-, Fordair was established to build aero engines in Bordeaux. 


Love from Finland-in-Texas.  Via the net.

Note the fourth photo.

Note the kid on a bicycle.

Note where the kid is in fifth photo.

http://tinyurl.com/cayq4

("Camaro overboard?")

Note the Gremlin photo.

Note the enlarged hatch opening.

Note the "retro-style" customization. 

http://tinyurl.com/989rw

("Limousine window?")

Note how to search for more AMC reindeer.

http://www.kvartmila.is/spjall/search.php


Does recent "coverage" of AMC speed records, non-records, and attempts-at-records remind anyone else of what -could- be done but hasn't been?

An AMC book compiled by dozens --- if not hundreds --- of contributors?

An AMCyclopedia for everything everyone knows to be factual --- online?

If there's lots of information somewhere, but little of it is where it can be quickly/easily found, it's not worth much of anything to anyone.

Unless I'm just wrong.  


>>
Unfortunately I don't know what the engines were, a pair of straight
8's, but the boat was lined with stainless steel tanks allegedly for
booze. (Kennedy's lived in Hyannisport Mass, O.R.E. was in Falmouth).
<<

No "allegedly" needed --- without rum running, some 'American royalty' would be lace curtain but not legendary; and that's fact.  Back in the '20s, my grandfather knew old Joseph P. and, when FDR named him [Joe] head of the SEC, he "knew where the bodies were buried" too (which was not too surprising since he spent some time on Wall Street, in Washington, DC, and, as bankruptcy trustee of a famously-mismanaged RR based in Chicago, "way out west" from Fifth Avenue* in execution thereof...)  Also, in the '30s-'50s, my father (and cousins) knew some "boys and girls" from Brookline, Hyannisport, New York, and London.  Some legends don't shine brightly on a closer inspection.  Or some potatoes don't smell so sweet if they're rotten.

Another story for another time and place.  It's not at all AMC related. 

In truth, Joe didn't do dirt at the SEC (his single year as Commissioner being just enough repayment by Roosevelt for Kennedy's "services" in the 1932 election and not too much to keep him from tending those many other interests, both business (building ever bigger ships, from the Maritime Commission to the Court of St. James to the launching of his own progeny [two, three, four?] into the White House) and pleasure (Pathe, RKO) plus business-with-pleasure (Gloria [as in Swanson] Productions) all while smiling with Hitler, Franco, and [Sen.] McCarthy.  Add eleven kids.  Quite a busy bee.

(*If you've ever seen the old "New Yorker" cover, you'll know how they used to think there was nothing between the Hudson River and Los Angeles; as an easterner for however many hundred years since his great-whatever GF stepped off a boat, the pre-war Pacific Northwest was Planet Jupiter to most Manhattans...)        

Speaking of mass media, in addition to putting an old Pacer on Sears' "Wish Big" list, Capital One is putting a new Christmas (or "Holiday"?) tree in a Grand Wagoneer.  The AMC car with an afterlife in advertising almost as long as its life as a production SUV.  Levi's is pulling on yet another TV AMC: a '60s Rambler American spot zips up after their '66 Ambassador sedan scene.  And finally, see "Seinfeld" syndication.  See some Saab sales, some AMC-related jokes.

Which character once owned which model connected with American Motors?     

Which reminds me of some super-esoteric AMC styling.  In the '20s, what Wall Street name --- in stock sales still --- took over an auto company whose best-known model supplied a small but significant cue to the two-seat AMX by AMC?

Hint: 90 years ago, it could have been advertised as "the car to beat."