[AMC-List] AMC show

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

Eddie didn't show off the "double-stretch" Nash, 

http://www.orangeshow.org/vote2006/images/179.jpg

so he'll want to reach out and touch some Bondo.

Frank didn't call Mark an "apogee-eyed" Classic, 

http://www.amcrc.com/photos/classic62.JPG

so they'll want to reach back and touch a Stude.

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/assets/jb/modern/jb_modern_loewy_1_e.jpg

http://www.garyzcarz.com/images/studebaker/studebaker-31.jpg

Back then, many art arches were in touch with the curves of design time.

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Aap-exhibit/images/brasilia.jpg

That architecture student's professor was Frederick Edmundson.  Get it?

Edmund [Ander]son + architecture = wheels?  Cars + building = fine art?

Not to be confused with rubber rounds + apogee curves = hoops.  Get it?  

Oh, hec [!]: throw more confusion on the grill.  No one read this junk.   

http://www.djc.com/news/const/11115562

The more you see, the better life gets.


Didn't anyone see "1922 Ambassador" here yesterday and ask, "Huh?"

If you did, didn't you ask yourself, "Why doesn't he write right?"

If you did, why are you hiding your smarts behind a shiny grille?

Huh?  -Huh-??  HUH???

Big Ambassadors were built before Nash built big Ambassadors?

The first big Ambassador was built only for 1922 and 1923?

In 1924, 1925, and 1926, a smaller Ambassador was built?

A Model D-1 that sold for $1695?

It didn't taste like chicken?

It did look like a Buick?

But it wasn't by Nash?

Don't believe it.

Go on.

No.

You go on.

Start now.

http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=1286 

Somebody write the rest of the story: shine some light into the grave.

Are you too yellow to be mellow, always off-duty, or too taxed to try?  

Or too typical for AMC?  "What would you do?" if -you- had to compete?

http://www.planethoustonamx.com/parts/71_nos_cc_watercolor.JPG

 
Since the three-light Pacer prototype (with speedlines and fastback...) link didn't go yesterday, the three-door Pacer-into-Fusion wagon link didn't go last week, and any links I take time to find, tiny, and post don't go anywhere for anyone who won't read, hasn't time, or can't see, it's pointless to keep trying to make anything more out of deadly AMC.

Research wheel arches on your own.  Know how lower rear fender designs at S-P, GM, Ford, and Mopar connected with Rambler-AMC.  Make the most mileage both Donohue ponies may muster.  Learn Camaro-Javelin history!  Search for X-actly where the classic two-seater rear fender originated and prove your thesis with words and pictures.  Stick your nose beyond the Hornet "grill" and breathe deeply.  You're missing lots of AMC now.

Read about AMC in English, German and Ebonics; write well about AMC in whichever language you worked hard to develop skill.  Show off any AMC vehicles you worked hard to develop skills to repair, restore, and pay for; then speak intelligently and factually (in a kindly manner) about AMC cars and history to convince those you encounter that AMC truly is interesting and wholly worthy of their old-car time, effort, or money. 

Without better returns on everyone's investment, hobby AMC will fail.  It's a niche nameplate?  So AMC should be -more- successful than the Big-3 are: smaller + working harder/being smarter = more/better/best.  

http://www.adage.com/article?article_id=109173           

American Motors said it built the "Smartest, most economical station wagons on the road --- Rambler for 1958."  (AM didn't say they were the best looking: save for some Mopars, how many '58 American motor vehicles -were- really good looking?)

So what happened to smartness?  Where are the smart AM people in 2006?

Some of what America saw in AM can now be seen in "The Big Book of Car Culture: An Armchair Guide to Automotive America" (printed in China...): green Rambler on front; pink Gremlin on back; more AM on inside pages.

Hash Hornet (page 94); "Gremlin: Something New/Something Old" (120-121); "Pacer: A Failure?" (122-123); Nash Airflyte (153); "Hummer and Jeeps" (157-159); and "Smartest" (182).  If that is enough to feed your need for AMC knowledge, stick your nose back in the Hornet "grill" and hide from reality.  You, along with what's left of American motor industry (now being forced to admit it cannot build Japanese, German and Korean cars as well as Japanese, Germans and Koreans do at home: quality of US-built Toyotas, Nissans and Hondas has apparently fallen so fast and so far that product planners now plan to build tomorrow's "American" cars in places like China and Mexico: if we're not fools and we're not lazy, then what are we?  Clueless idiots?) --- both won't even know what has happened.  By then, if your AMC car is still running, you'll be -dead-.

You'll be pushing up Daisy Yellow daisies, you'll have [re]turned to dust on a grill, or, if you're a cockeyed optimist, you'll be "on ice" like some Red Flag flyer (budget-minded Yankees will also be on a Red Flyer --- which they hope to drive away [if you can't see beyond your "grill", you're missing the whole joke] or you'll be slipping Walt a Mickey when he thaws.  

Your grandkids will buy "All-American" KIAs assembled in Agua Caliente, your favorite NASCAR tracks will hype "All-American" racecars designed in Australia and built in India, your great-grandkids will ride busses to schools that assess ever-higher taxes and produce ever-lower scores with European-developed diesel-hybrid or fuel-cell motors assembled in Vietnam, and, if anyone has any money to take AMC to car shows, no one will see American Motors beyond a "silver grill" or small block of V-8 muscle.  The actual AMC art of -argent- will be lost with alchemy.  If that's the way you want it, you're doing great today.  Have a good AMC weekend.  Get those "grills" shined up: there are shows -next- Sunday.

One of them is right here in WNY, back after unfortunate cancellation last year, in its second new location.  It used to be the biggest car show in upstate NY (1000+ entries, among them 20+ AMC family --- most AMC seen here outside an AMC meet [a what?] here now); it'll be a bit smaller in 2006, ~800 cars on display.  All Nash-Rambler-AMC welcome; just ignore the host club's marque.  Click what, when, where, and go to the show.  AMC isn't completely dead.  Yet. 

http://www.mgcarclub.com/wny/CarShowForms/ShowCvrprel.2.pdf
http://www.mgcarclub.com/wny/CarShowForms/carshowClasses2006.pdf
http://www.mgcarclub.com/wny/CarShowForms/carshowdirections2006.pdf   

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