Magic numbers

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

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the unit bodies of the AMX and Gremlin really are almost the same -- the AMX has a couple inches more wheelbase.
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If -one- is "a couple" now, Frank, what would, say, -thirteen more- be called?  Two?  A pair?  Oops?  <LOL>  

Last time I posted a pdf of classes for an old car show: what I -intended- to post was a link to photos from an Olds car show that Nash-Rambler-AMC people can compare their hobby to.  Did the 2004 or 2005 AMC homecomings [in Kenosha or wherever] count 400-500 cars, too?  If not, why?  Too few survivors?  Hardly.  Too few drivers?  No way.  Too many AMC fans -awaiting- magic?

Maybe.

http://www.reolds.org/homephotos4.htm

http://www.reolds.org/homephotos5.htm

There's magic in numbers.  Numbers mean markets and critical mass means more magic.  Too many AMC people now stop counting at the magic number of 401.

There's nothing wrong with 401, even if it never means a million-dollar AMC pony or muscle Machine (unless Chevy's bulb blooming in your three-million-dollar Mopar beds proves today's Tulipomania tomorrow); it also means that AMC once was bigger.  Not as big as Olds, surely, but as big as, say, Studebaker; certainly bigger than, say, Edsel or <gag> Pierce. Some now bigger than AMC is now, even though Nash-Rambler-AMC once was almost as big as the Big-3.  In numbers -and- magic.  Such fact now is forgotten.  Where have the AMC numbers gone?  Where is AMC's old magic?

Even if the magic number -is- 401, many times I've posted Nash-Rambler-AMC and Olds-Buick-Cadillac parallels.  I've made many Kenosha Cadillac and Fleetwood Brougham connections; I've mentioned how Charlie Nash was still building General Motors cars after 1916 --- and, until 1948, many of them still bearing his magic name and market vision.  I counted magic numbers in Ambassador and Roadmaster.  If Nash built Buicks and the last Ambassador Brougham was a Roadmaster Estate, then just one number makes similar magic today: 4604642337.  Or, for those waiting for magic (read: you're lazy!), one tiny (let someone else do the work for you, eh?) line of gobbledygook shows the way.      

Are you wondering?

Just keep waiting.

Wonder where Ambassador went to become a faded memory of Nash-AMC past.

"Got a 401 in that?"

"No, it's just old."

"Oh.  If it's an Olds, it'd be worth somethin'; if it don't have no 401 to build or transplant, it's just an old AMC barge.  No magic in that!"

Old AMC memories with few bigger numbers.

http://www.paigedavidson.com/station8.jpg

Unless the hobby grows its numbers again.

Fuzzy, yet fact.  It's an AMC Ambassador.

http://www.paigedavidson.com/station8.html

Is there any magic in today's mass exercise?

Do more, work harder, and open your AMC eyes.

There's magic in more than Javelin and Hornet.

There may be a new Ambassador in your junkyard.

And, if you can count beyond 401, an Olds show.

Higher numbers could make AMC magic once again.

But the count starts with you, she, he, and me.

Not that you should stop counting your old 401s.   

http://tinyurl.com/dvcwj

http://fourohonefran.tripod.com/roadmaster/

http://fourohonefran.tripod.com/

http://fourohonefran.tripod.com/daytwo/

http://fourohonefran.tripod.com/daythree/

Or your Dannon.  Grand Wagoneer still has magic.

Find it yourself in their newest television spot.

To others, AMC magic was stolen.  By them French.

http://www.virtualjeepclub.com/archive/index.php/t-3690.html

So, C'est la vie?

Or the AMC magic?

402, 403, 404...