Book that!

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

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Might want to look into this method, Frank..

http://www.trafford.com/
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(and one of the other options I pointed Frank toward some months back...

http://tinyurl.com/9koow

or a heavy-lifting one I may even have mentioned in a post online...)

http://www.dspace.org/

One day, anyone could simply download a page on his or her cell phone when he or she needs it --- beside a car in his or her garage.  His or her questions could be answered and his or her tasks be very well done.

One day, often-unreadable grease-stained pages could be well forgotten and collector-car photos viewed often and as well on wall-mount plasma screens as on the glossiest of paper pages however beautifully they are Morocco [leather] bound.  (Unless they were bound by Chrysler in Corinth, of course...)

And one day, anyone could have full-size holographic visions of his or her cars-of-choice from any make, era and country --- on his or her garage (or living room) wall.

Too bad so many 7-foot by 20-foot rolled-up Packard profiles are gone. 

Ah, but who cares about such paper, you may say, cars are what counts.

Cars made of steel, wood, rubber, plastic and glass.

http://tinyurl.com/b8rvx

Have you wished for a 10-inch by 20-inch Packard dashboard watercolor?

You're in luck.  Just hand over the price of the finest '79 Spirit AMX you might imagine ever buying and you may get about $50 in change back.

http://tinyurl.com/8r4w6
http://tinyurl.com/83tmf

Anyone with his or her head not in the AMC-Land sand could spend $5,000 for a cool car or a piece of paper.  Both could appreciate.  Which one more than which?  Supply and demand?   

So where has much of AMC's design, engineering and corporate history gone?  Is such state of American Motors as a collectible generally "good enough?"


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And, FWIW, there is someone reproducing some of the parts books on CD (I
think they started with the 67-74 book which covers the more popular
vehicles). They had to get permission from Daimler Chrysler to do it
because of copyright issues. I want to say the name of the place that did it is Mopar Manuals but I'm not 100% sure of that.
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Matt is 100% correct --- not to mention copyright compliant.  Huzzahs!

http://tinyurl.com/7b3ny


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I'd like to see every picture ArcticBoy has in his files in
a Coffee Table Portfolio Sized books - Plural.
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And you'd see a coffee table the size of Colombia plus a book budget as big as not a Juan --- but as an ExxonMobil --- Valdez.  Yet one big AMC site that was truly well designed and well organized could serve as the center of the AMC universe, with content and links for everything under the AMC sun, moon, and stars.  Everything that everyone has, holds, and knows could be archived: every photo, every document and every color of paint ever chipped, dipped, brushed or sprayed on.  All for the cost of site and server: all free, all by the world AMC car and computer owners.

Yesterday, I couldn't find a '79 brochure online to verify (luckily my memory was working and the details I posted [checked original document last night] were correct); today, tomorrow, or the twelfth of never, I won't be able to make a point because the proof (or the photo) is in a box or a book or somewhere unknown.  That's why AMC stays "good enough" for AMC types; that's one reason why AMC stays "ho, ho" for many more.  That's among many reasons why AMC Javelins are parted out while Big-3 ponies are appreciated.  Or even why some Big-3 models are -appreciating- fast enough to send the kids to college or buy you and the spouse a retirement yacht.  There will be $3-4M '60s-'70s Mopars in the future: sounds crazy, yet a fact.  What will AMC be then?  Just "good enough?"  Or better than it is now?    

Don't let the Grinch steal AMC's Christmas in his Ford, Chevy or Toyota truck.  You're all responsible for how good "good enough" could become.

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Pictures of 'maybe' styling clues - like the
front of a 1980 Pacer & a 1956 Packard
Caribbean > hooded headlights & the grille
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Not to mention pictures of the 1950s -Packard- Pacers (two were drawn) I stole --- moments before an "iron design curtain of opportunity" closed.

The first luxury compacts --- decades before Hornet (or Spirit Limited.)

Bring a lawyer and a bodyguard, though.  To publish them may mean death!

And then you won't be able to drive your Chery: 2 million yearly units coming to an erstwhile land of American Motors, Chrysler, Ford, and GM.  

But if "good enough" is good enough for you, don't worry about that.

Carry on.