Fashion first

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

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The wheels are listed as being originally fitted to the '93-'95 Grand
Cherokee and '97-'99 Cherokee, Hollander (?) number H9011.  The tires
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Thanks.  Excellent look on Eagle (likely better than:)  

http://www.redtoyz.com/images/96jeep/jeep96-10-wheel.jpg

with what may be painted infill (small pics don't show),

http://www.ewanted.com/images/upload/580W/wa_cEhoHBTw7Ngd6262-wheel.jpg

like one of the classic wheel looks of the eighties

http://www.wheelcollision.com/wccpix/1507ablack.jpg

(unless "Gold Fever" made an even more classic look)

http://www.thirdgen.org/newdesign/brochures/1988Firebird/gta_ad.jpg

when America built "excitement" and those who bought it had hair.

http://www.versaillesrecords.com/images/ahb.jpg

But if they had flair, Hornets still had a -grille- and -flares-.

Stossel's "20/20" piece "Stupid in America" had no effect either.

Oh well.


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must mean they probably still have a few Nashes left
over there , if they haven't rusted away yet. Cool!
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Seeing a Nash, Hudson or old Rambler driving around is
probably no big deal there.....
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Actually, Nashes are rather rare there; rarer than Studes and Packards, and, while Ramblers are around, they're not terribly common, either.  I recommend three excellent Cuban car books.  One is the monstrous coffee table tome; one, an abridged version of that, and one was published in, duh, Russia.  And if Americans ever have a chance to bring Cuban cars "back home," there'll be a transfer of greenbacks that could slay Fidel.  Problem is, by then he'll be as mummified as Vladimir, Ho, and Mao!


Since Eddie linked Pixar (a film so long delayed, maybe he wasn't born when I first posted info on it [and on Sunday, he'll be only 10 years younger than 

http://today.davesfunstuff.com/630/630d0326.htm

Jiminy Glick --- wow!]) and Cassini, I'll add a link to his final honor: 

http://www.nationalartsclub.org/pb_SE_artists_oc.htm

(similar Matador medallion was $16 at http://www.planethoustonamx.com/)  

and note that two AMC "designer" cars really were designed more by AMC than by their namesakes.  I owned one, that I only later learned was a one-off.  Oh well. 

AMC didn't figure into New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, etc. obits: its cars being just another "licensed product" of sorts.  Oh well. 

http://tinyurl.com/p3ayt


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64 Ambassador 990 ... has one of
the nicest, plushest (if that's a word) brown
vinyl/fabric interiors I have seen in a 60s AMC.
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(Semi-evident in '68 4-door FS posted here too...)

That plushness (if it's not a word, it work) of Ambassador interiors was one of those thoroughly intentional "Kenosha Cadillac" directions taken by your Design VP who happened to have worked as a stylist for Cadillac long before he signed on with AMC.  B-O-C quality interiors and standard a/c were steps toward the goal of selling higher-profit AMC models; '69 cowl was faithfully copied from '67 Caddy and '74 front/rear facelifts were Cadillac inspired, as well.  The last big AMC Ambassador proposal (as opposed to the last big Chrysler Ambassador proposals...) maybe was the most Cadillac-inspired of all: in interior, exterior, and -name-. 

So, do you know:

1) What 1970s-up AMC and Cadillac -repeatedly- shared?  (No, not Saginaw steering...)   

2) How did AMC "adapt" -two- working names from the first small Cadillac (meaning '70s production, not '40s concept [and involves Pacer history]) for the last big (122") Ambassador?  

3) What design cue from the full-size fiberglass of that Cadillac showed up on sketches for the last small (108") Ambassador?

4) What not-an-Ambassador AMC prototype that looked surprisingly similar to the clay of yet another version of that small Cadillac actually -pre-dated- it by two years?

I egg you on: post answers to these and the [not-a-peep-heard] Pacer Qs!

Spring is coming.  Chick into AMC history.  Hatch something of interest.

Some car candy still won't be found hidden in -AMC- articles and books...