>> No , It was Bucknum , not sure on an exact spelling, but pronounced Buck -num. << No, it was Buckland. An exact spelling but pronounced "BUCK-lund." And he was born in Stoke, Devonshire exactly 161 years ago this past Sunday! Sad that he is not better remembered --- by the AMC experts, especially. Let's not duck more foul matters: because fowls are not always CANARDS, http://www.swiftmotorsports.com/images/aprcanard3.jpeg "flairs" are not FLARES, and "to" isn't TOO. Let's try to write right. Not only are the Japanese writing and racing "righter" than we seem to, http://homepage3.nifty.com/atelier/img/gallery/05sendu_r1/2104_30.jpg http://www.so-net.ne.jp/s-taikyu/ but Europeans are still doing both better than America does, IN Japan! http://homepage3.nifty.com/atelier/img/gallery/05sendu_r1/2102_22.jpg http://homepage3.nifty.com/atelier/img/gallery/05sendu_r1/2102_29.jpg And it's not only on the track that we need to get our ducks in a row. Click "web catalog" and pull down the menu under "Performance." Then click "Aerodynamics" for what keeps 320 street-driven horses quacking http://www.subaru-sti.co.jp/s204/ and compare to the "excitement of cladding" from old hands in Motown. http://tinyurl.com/7jzqy There's plastic and plastic, there's a new world, and there's the US. So how're we doin' (and "we" doesn't mean Ed Koch or Joey Tribbiani)? We can't build many more of today's GTs* than yesterday's SC/Ramblers: why aren't we ashamed by our performance --- on and off the racetrack? (*Ford sold only 1302 last year and will "pull the plug" [early] this year; while Honda sold over 19,000 NSXs in 15 years. And, when Honda built the last few, they cost more, even adjusted for inflation, than did an earlier 19,000+-unit two-seater ex-history. For almost $100k, wouldn't one expect not an AMX, but an AMX/3? When DaimlerChrysler's mini Marlin, er, um, -Crossfire- is axed [also early], can Detroit --- or Stuttgart --- claim, "We had planned to!" equally unconvincingly?) We can't even draw new car-body doodads (on '07 Cadillac AND Dodge?) http://www.autoblog.com/media/2006/01/3060000000053590.JPG.jpg http://tinyurl.com/c2aa5 that haven't been done before --- http://tinyurl.com/9ztuh way back in, say, the year -2004-! http://www.roverworld.com/images/Vehicles/BabyRange/RangeStormer-01.jpg Get the picture? America hasn't.) http://www.autorevue.cz/automobilka/Ar.asp?ARI=6397&CHID=6&EXPS=&EXPA=