[AMC-List] B-cars

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

It's interesting that the modern media makes more out of a $4.1 million bid for a Brangelina baby photo than a $4.1 million bid for a Barracuda.  Both are all about funny money, but then, if you read your motor magazines, you know all about $1 and $2 million muscle (and muscle-bound pony) car values.  If you didn't read the Rand/Workman link posted, you don't know what you don't know about.

When the "popular" press knows all about where old-car prices are going,

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/automobiles/04MILLION.html

old and young old-car know-it-alls see flags flying: checkered and red.

Did old AMC make many "marginal" auto models?

Maybe that's what much of production AMC was.  

Did AMC also make any "money-maker" machines? 

Maybe that's what can "save" the rest of AMC.

http://tinyurl.com/pdpzd

Ten cents a dance or ten cents on a dollar?
 
AMC always moved to its own special rhythm.

AMC always liked one-in-a-hundred models.

Maybe that's what always made AMC, AMC.   

"Different by Design" was Studebaker.

"Different by Choice" was all AMC.

That's the one-percent solution.

That's in your old-car garage.

http://corvettes-musclecars.com/cgi-bin/emAlbum.cgi

For $5,000,000 or $2,500,000 or $1,500,000?

For only for $150,000 an AMC can be yours.

If that's your old AMC car, that's great.

If not, $150 may buy you that Barracuda.

Newly-minted ragtop model of a B&W baby

http://www.franklinmint.com/product1.aspx?SID=2&Product_ID=669

will be added to the plum crazy garage. 

And Franklin said, "Show me the money!"

Old Ben knew all about old cars and also knew all about AMC values:

"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power."

Drove the wheels off his Rambler American, then bought a 232 Spirit.

Roll on.

Shifting gears manually (like Franklin did before perfecting his 2-stage 8-speed ECVT...), did anyone notice that one little letter was added yesterday's posting?  I put "year" where "era" belonged to see if anyone would read, think, and post a question.  How could that Cyclone and Super Nova II have been designed the "same year" when they looked so very different?  Did the silver paint [!] blind everyone?

They weren't.  They were designed during the same -era-.

One was drawn in the summer of '58, the other circa '62.

If one digit makes a difference in car values, one letter does count.

GM re-bodied one car, twice.  The other was re-bodied by AMC.  Twice.

http://www.gmphotostore.com/images/53217640_pr.jpg

If AMC people ever manage to build a new version of Kenosha Cadillac

http://www.car-nection.com/yann/Dbas_txt/Drm_cycl.htm
 
(by building their own comprehensive cooperative database), they'll know all about where their favorite million-dollar AMC car designs came from.

Until that happens, Franklin knew all about something else AMC needs:  

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/bf0036s.jpg

"Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly."

Ben knows.

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