Fun cross-listing

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

On March 6, 1896, Charles Brady King took to the road in Detroit.  His 4-cylinder 4-cycle horseless vehicle was the first car Woodward Avenue had ever seen.  It weighed about 800 pounds and cost less than $1,000.

That's auto history.
  
http://tinyurl.com/pv9wn

http://tinyurl.com/mfdlh

On March 13, 2006, George Walker Bush took to the road from Rochester.  His 8-cylinder 6-passenger horseless vehicle has a 22-inch LCD TV screen.  It (car) weighs about 12,000 pounds and cost more than $1,000,000.

That's auto progress.

http://tinyurl.com/qcltw

http://tinyurl.com/lnzn3

http://tinyurl.com/robag

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5280947

On that same day, March 13, 2006, neither a Cadillac nor a King took to the fast road to America.  Now "import" horseless vehicles are America's car scene. 

That's auto reality.

http://www.kiamedia.com/secure/corporate031306.html

So let's take more interest in American Motors history and the roads AMC took (or didn't take) 20, 30, 70, or 110 years ago this day/month/year.  Let's look at the first Pacer and the last Matador and see "evergreen."  Let's not be Americans who take the slow road to irrelevancy.  When you looked at February and March of 2006 and still saw some AMC, share it before that opportunity, too, disappears.  

Once, Cadillac was America's king.

Just as once, AMC was interesting.

Don't wait until "AMC: Quest for Acceptance During the Performance Minded '60s" is on every AMC fan's bookshelf in two years.  Write more about AMC today!   


Half the photos didn't show for last week's post, so more wasted time and opportunity to "zoom-zoom" AMC info.  If we can't read, we can't write, we can't sing, we can't dance, and we can't find tomorrow beyond today, someday we'll call the whole thing off.

Until someone said "Spike TV" (Friday), it wasn't clear if "musclecar" (on Wednesday) meant "American Muscle Car" or "Muscle Car Makeover" or "Overhaulin'" or "Overdrive" or "Over The Top Tuners" or "Overhead Racket."  Careless writing is wrong.  Write more.  Write right.  And write with reference to the URL.

http://www.musclecartelevision.com/news.aspx?iid=6043 

Use it [the resources you have] or lose it.  History!

Car carelessness is bad.  Teague recalled designing trim for Oldsmobile and told of the clay his team prepared for a final viewing by Earl (who was to pick from two styles of chrome overlay...), but someone had mistakenly left BOTH versions affixed.  Misterl said, "Fellas, you got it!" so the car was headed into production just as it stood.  Dick was horrified by the result (and that his peers would think he approved it), but nothing could be done.  He couldn't point out the error and he couldn't dispute with the big boss.  Look more carefully.  You may see what Earl missed.

http://www.plan59.com/photos/photos035.htm

(Click through five photos)

http://www.1motormart.com/gallery/51olds01.jpg


New look at old posts:

If Teague's Barcelona

http://www.matadorcoupe.com/scoop.htm 

(search for "Teague")

was "II" far from Nero,

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/automobiles/12WOLFE.html 

then don't call Myrna Loy a Packard.  Just call her a taxi.

If Saab's hood fits,

http://tinyurl.com/rx5f9

Mercedes may wear it.

If Honda's shoe Fits,

http://tinyurl.com/lufnv

(scroll to Pacer)

AMC may race it.

If Buick's RWD fits,

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/02/28/1141095743734.html

Holden may build it.

http://tinyurl.com/kunrk

http://tinyurl.com/ltdfa

If Nash was Invicta,

http://tinyurl.com/fl5fw

http://www.plan59.com/images/JPGs/nas55grn.jpg

(See more clearly)

http://tinyurl.com/j5r4y

http://tinyurl.com/fwymz

and Buick disappears from America, Avalon and Azera may be American motors' last (only?) Buick Nash Roadmaster Ambassadors.

And, sadly, few Americans will remember Invicta, Electra, or Ambassador.


Kids say the funniest things.

On the AMC List:

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The 343 was only available one year in the Rogue, then AMC pulled it due to concerns about the body handling the torque.
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And they knew SC/Rambler 390 would be a -revver- not a torquer.  Ha ha. 

>>
The wife keeps giving me the evil eye every time se looks at the grill in the corner of the living room. :-)
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And she -really- burns every time you light it for a barbeque.  He he.

(Don't grill[e] her on Ford's newest better, uh, bigger, idea...)

http://www.sportruck.com/news/2007-Lincoln-Navigator/index.htm

In Auburn Hills:

"Warmest congratulations to Ralph Gilles on a well-deserved promotion. Mopar aficionados everywhere are impressed with his talent and will always be eternally grateful for his leadership in the design of the Chrysler 300, the greatest vehicle ever to be produced by the Chrysler Group."

And they can't wait for Chrysler Group's next greatest vehicle.  Ho ho.

http://tinyurl.com/jo99r

http://www.mariomalagrino.com/car_design.html

Oh, sorry, wrong vehicles

http://www.classicdriver.com/upload/images/_de/3296/img01.jpg

http://www.classicdriver.com/upload/images/_de/3296/img02.jpg

Ho, yo, shizzle, and such.

(And they said you couldn't tell if -this- was coming or going...)

http://www.tocmp.com/pix/Studebaker/images/47Studebaker01-or.jpg

I just clicked every link above.  All work.  You're on your own.

I gotta go now.  Gotta go look for an 1875 Pacer.  When I get back, I expect someone (meaning YOU) will have answered three curious questions:

What did the first production Pacer have that no other later-production Pacer would ever share, who was its first driver, and where is it now?

The answers are right "above" you.  Just open your eyes and see.