Funny

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

Some say history never repeats; some say it does.  (Some say it doesn't matter.)  Some say Chevy won; some say Ford did; some say '05 -and- '55 are worth studying.  Some say one was the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end for Studebaker-Packard and Nash-Hudson.  AKA AMC.  

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006602130384 

http://www.jstor.org/view/00221821/di974553/97p0130p/0

Now you can equate the "Nash equilibrium" with a "Beautiful [AMC] Mind."

If you find that finding a Nash in a Crowe's nest is both fun and funny,

http://gblx.cache.el-mundo.net/larevista/num126/imagenes/oscar2.jpg

you can "Find in this page" and find a confidential Packard in LALAland. 

http://www.kevinspacey.de/Scripts/LAC_script_Draft.htm

It's fun to see how car history has a funny of bumping into the present.

http://auto-presse.de/newssys/galerie/10382/10382_1.jpg

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/images/6361_large.jpg

Q: Which is the funny French car and which is the funny car from Japan?

A: Does it even matter, since now, American cars can't seem to keep up?

http://www.globalautoindex.com/news.plt?no=1373

http://www.salon-auto.ch/en/

It's also funny to see how it has a funny way of bumping into the past.
  
Q: "Are you concerned by the prospect of foreign manufacturers coming into the U.S. to build their cars here?"

A: "I don't think so; they might lower their costs and increase their profits that way, but I don't think it necessarily means their volume would be any higher.  As a matter of fact, it may be a good thing for the country because it would provide more employment."

Henry Ford II, in 1975

It's funny but not funny when I get facts wrong.  Correction is needed.  

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Tell your "Boss" about his car's designer's -AMC- work; tell your "Camaro" (made-up word for "companion") that a working name for his car was the final trademark registered by -Packard- for a design by the first VP of -AMC- Styling... 
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Nothing wrong with the Mustang info, but that Camaro comment was wrong: Packard's "Panther" trademark filing had indicated first use on January 28, 1954; their first use of "Executive" had been filed as April of 1955.

(You surely know that "Executive" would later be used by General Motors also...)

While we have the trademark book open to the Packard Motor Car Company pages, we'll let out another "forgotten AM secret" --- namely, that AMC's "Palm Beach" mark had been filed by Packard, with a date of April, 1953.  Who knew?  

http://www.amxfiles.com/amcpix/plmbeach.jpg

Now you do.