[AMC-List] P is for cars, and other Ramblings

[Michael Bailey <route66rambler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 2, John Mahoney wrote:

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Props! ...to TOCM Mike for helping more people see the way to share the documentation of yesterday's AMC...

-------> Well, I WISH I could claim credit for The Old Car Manual Project, but this most awesome of documentation sites is actually run by an individual with the handle of Doc Rusty.  So far, I haven't seen my copy of the '69 Family Album show up there, but Rusty just sent an e-mail assuring me that it would be on the front page of The Old Car Manual Project at:

http://www.tocmp.com

whenever it does come online.  All 148 pages of Amazingly Munchable Candy have been scanned at 300 dpi and shipped. These have been compressed to about 1.5 megabytes each. It should be understood that the person who donated this book to the Museum Archives paid around 90 bucks for it, and in its particular condition, this was a steal. But anyone who does much scanning knows that this priceless treasure was destroyed in the process of sharing an extremely rare piece of documentation with the larger AMC community. There were probably less than 1500 copies printed of this book. At least have a ook at it. The AMCyclopedia,






http://www.amcyclopedia.org






has all of the pages at around 1200x950 (100Kb) and they are up for display HERE:






http://www.amcyclopedia.org/1969FamilyAlbum/

This AMCyclopedia thing is one resource that everyone who gives a flying rat's ass about American Motors Corporation NEEDS TO SUPPORT.  This is YOUR community informational resource, and it is a community-supported project, like a Wikipedia exclusively for AMC. This means if you spot a gap or error in the information presented, you, YES, YOU can contribute the necessary information yourself to correct the situation.  Do it. Then we don't always have to cover the same power steering / trans swap questions over and over.  Also, search the archives here on the AMC-List, and you are liable to find that most any questions you are pondering have already been answered.  Eddie Stakes has a Judging Guide for American Motors restorers over on Planet Houston AMX. This will let you walk around your project and check it directly one item at a time:

http://www.planethoustonamx.com

 For whoever might actually be interested, there is a link to the 1969 American Motors Family Album on the Route 66 Rambler Report(formerly Birthday Card for the Gremlin)

http://geocities.com/route66rambler

 This link will take you directly to the Family Album, which I placed in a Photobucket.com photo album. Currently, about the first 75 pages are up, While you are there, look around the Photobucket album I am working on, sort of a virtual museum and library, where I plan on posting ads, car pics, and other useful documents from around the Web and that I have scanned, with info from 1845 and onwards as far as I can fit it before they shut it off.  Such is the life of free web space.  If you see something you like, get it while you can.  These free places come and go like a hunnert daller Chevy, and there's no guarantee that they will leave me running for any length of time.
 That's part of the website game when operating on Rambler Mentality instead of Filthy Lucre.
 mike



		
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