New Car Show Called Muscle Car / tough crowd

["Widiker, John D" <john.widiker@xxxxxxx>]

The list has been a tough crowd lately, maybe spring needs to hurry up a
little. I for one think it's cool that there is another show that's
doing cool stuff, and how do we know that measurements weren't done off
camera or that the cars not going to be right because of what Lou did to
it. 

Lou's speech and choice of head gear strikes me as a bit of marketing.
Don't we all lament that the kids of today aren't into our stuff? That
they build ricers instead of real cars? Seems to me that he's tailor
made to hit that demographic. 

I've avoided several negative posts over the last few months by choosing
to respond later or not at all to things said here. Not all the
personalities or writing styles or opinions here are always in line with
what I agree with, but I try not to blast anyone on purpose because we
all bring something common to the table and that's a love of amc and
more generally cars as a whole. 

Smile kids, sun will be back soon. 

~J

-----Original Message-----
From: Jock J Jocewicz [mailto:namdra@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 2:22 AM
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: New Car Show Called Muscle Car

Who ever it is that posted this message and said - "The show is a real
piece of crap. What is with the guy with the handkerchief on his head?" 

Jeez, this is America, we can wear what ever we want on our heads. And
why all the negativity when someone has a TV show or a magazine and does
some AMX stuff, AMC stuff or plans on an SC/Rambler clone, etc. We as
AMC'ers have to be glad we are finally getting more publicity. If a TV
show or magazine makes a mistake, write, call, e-mail them and politely
let them know their mistake. I'm sure if we are polite, they will strive
to be more correct.

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:06:38 -0500 ortfamily@xxxxxxx writes:
> The show is a real piece of crap. What is with the guy with the 
> handkerchief on his head?
> 
> On March 8, 2006 Frank Swygert wrote:
> 
> > Here here Doc! I have to second that. I didn't see that episode,
> but that's a definite sign of a hack job to me. I'd do something like 
> that to a show car before I would a daily driver or even a racer -- 
> provided it didn't show and the car for certain was going to be a 
> trailer queen. Well, actually, I don't think I'd do something that 
> major at all. It doesn't take a lot to level the car up on a somewhat 
> level concrete floor and take some measurements at least. The only 
> problem for the show is they'd have to track down the frame 
> measurement data from a real shop manual or a Mitchell's publication. 
> They should have not shown that segment. They could have shown that 
> the fenders didn't fit right, discussed the right way to do it (hacked

> it off camera), then come back and showed installing the fender. That 
> might be somewhat dishonest, but better than telling millions of 
> viewers (it will be in syndication and re-run a few times too, and 
> videos/DVDs sold) it's okay to hack somethi!
>  ng!
> >  !
> > 
> > On March 8, 2006 Mr. AMC wrote:
> > 
> > > Nice show BUT anyone can bolt together a half finished El Camino
> and an
> > > all new Camero convert. I have watched this show since it
> started and
> > > they are good parts replacers an fair fabricators. The reason I
> say this
> > > is when they found that the fenders did not fit on the old Mopar
> because
> > > they determined the unibody was bent they notched the unibody
> and bent
> > > it so the fenders fit properly and rewelded it bck up. Not
> having the
> > > whole car put on a frame machine and having it all straightened 
> > > properly. Sorry to me that made them HACKS. Even for time and
> budgets
> > > for a TV show if they were all that good and were forced to do
> that I
> > > would not show it on TV. A few of my friends in the automotive
> business,
> > > custom car builders and regular hard core muscle car lovers,
> builders
> > > and owners and just plain mechanics share my opinion after
> seeing that.
> > > Nice show but no cigar on a major quality failure. I was a
> fabricator in
> > > construction, built roll cages and custom parts from scratch for
> all
> > > kinds of cars and also built custom truck body's from scratch
> for 40
> > > years so I am just not running them down I have been there and
> done that
> > > and know a hack job when I see it. Sorry.
> > > "Doc"
> > 
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