[AMC-List] 2006 - 55 = 1968

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

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AFIK, the AMC instruments in the 70s were King-Seeley (sp?) and should be repairable by any of the instrument repair places that advertise in say, Hemmings Motor News.
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Way far back when Packard was king, King-Seeley supplied simple stuff

http://www.classicandexotic.com/catalog/kingseeley/components.htm

and by the mid '30s, as a supplier of gauges, speedos, and such to GM, Ford, Chrysler, etc., K-S was Ann Arbor's biggest industrial employer, but, while K-S did supply Nash-AMC into the '70s, when the last new dashes were phased in, Ford may have made some instruments for them, also --- '74, '75, and '77/'78 up.

(Why not check it out and put some permanent info online somewhere?)

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afaik since they introed the 472 they've had only one caddy v8 [472,
500, 425, 368], and that was a redesign of the previous 390/429.
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No, it wasn't.  GM's leap beyond the 440 and 462 (Chrysler and Lincoln) for 1968 was an *all-new* engine.  The 390's 4.00 x 3.875 had been bored and stroked (4.13 x 4.00) in '64, but [80-pound heavier] 472 was 4.30 x 4.06.  The '70 500 was a 472 stroked to 4.30 that, until 505 V-10 Viper debuted in '03, remained modern US regular production displacement king.  The 472, lightened (by 100-pounds) and lessened (4.08 x 4.06 = 425; 3.80 x 4.06 = 368), became the L33, L35, and L61.

Thereafter, it's a different story; read it on your own.  Caddy, unlike AMC, where words seem to be disparaged and in-depth writings on history seem to be scorned, seems to welcome accurate info and has lots of it online.

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Entertainment Weekly just ranked on their website the "top 10 Hollywood car chases ever," and the AMC chase from "The Man With the Golden Gun" came in at number 4!
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If -5- is a "4" by AMC count (which is not to rake anyone over the coals or throw anyone on a hot grill: everyone makes an occasional -unintentional- typo), scratch that displacement info above.  Different strokes for different strokes: "boring" and -boring- mean different things when judged by different Marks.

5-6/06 MTC: '74 AMC Ambassador Brougham station wagon at 100 mph (p. 26) and "AMC Ambassador" in p. 77 ad.  What is the point of collecting cars?  He says:
"I have it; you don't.  Period."  (I'm just quoting what you can read...)

7/06 HR: Dent repair (pp. 104-114; you asked...) plus a part of a Nash Met (the 384 part is a part of an old Olds...) on p. 24.

7/06 CC: '68 + etc. [401 + 727 + 3.73 + M20 + more] "Banarama" AMX is on p. 16.  It's yellow.  It's not mellow.  It's still hot.

Newest thinking: more from less.  Higher power from lower displacement. Klaus Borgmann, Senior VP, Powertrain Development, of a powerhouse car company says that (except for ultra high-performance tuner [Motorsport] models...), technology, not size will be his new thing.  The same terrible twins (emissions and economy) that tortured power brokers way far back in the AMC day are back in force, to force his ultimate driving machines into battle with the same forces that ultimately forced the final failure of American Motors.  (The finale of American motors is still being acted out onstage...)

In this world of 2.5L I-4 250-hp car-like SUVs, where old leaders race to stay one step ahead in technology, one peg up in MRSP acceptability, one leg above in desirability, one point beyond in marketability, and one dollar/euro/yen/won/etc. from collapse in profitability, he knows that 9.3L/1000km 3.0L TDI V-6s versus 11.9L/1000 [14% less torquey] V-8s point the way to tomorrow.  So he, along with all the new car world, must continue seeking new or better solutions.

And he knows that the Cadillac 452

http://tinyurl.com/z6j8e

(sorry, cube carnivores, now sold,

http://tinyurl.com/jkwus

but you can buy a sporty '31 V-12

http://tinyurl.com/g2cap

that could go faster on less gas...)

or 829 answers are dream cars.  Or car dreams.  Your decision.

http://www.pevomuc.de/100-Cadillac/sixteen/Cadillac-16-2.html 

http://tinyurl.com/ghlbx

(It just had to be bigger than the Pierce-Arrow 824, you see...)

http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B28378-3.jpg

Size used to matter.  Info used to be valued.  How it all has changed.

Do you know that Teague's first "AMX concept" drawing is 55 years old?

Unless 6/51 is counted up differently in the strange world of old AMC.

       

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