Re: [Amc-list] Time Magazine 1966 - Article on Evans

["Swygert, Francis G MSgt 436 CES/CECM" <Francis.Swygert3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Date: Monday, March 12, 2007 08:54 AM
From: Archimedes <Freedom@xxxxxxxx>

Time Magazine has been putting its past issues online.  While I normally
make a habit of avoiding the horrid magazine in favor of better ones
like
Reason (see http://www.reason.com ), this one article caught my eye:

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American Motors' New Gospel -- Page 1 -- TIME

Until he invested more than $2000000 in ailing American Motors Corp. to
become ... Evans' father, a Virginia lumber dealer, made millions by
inventing and ...
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,899250,00.html?iid=chi
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Seems that even AMC realized Abernethy was spending the company to
death, and they put someone else up where he could be checked long
before he (Abernethy) left! The writer states that it was illogical to
blame Romney for the boxy designs, but he's partially correct. The 63
Classic and 64 American were designed under Romney's "rule" and approved
for production by him. It took at least two years for a new CEO to make
any significant styling changes, and the 65 was the first that Abernethy
was able to influence. Now I don't think of the 63 and 64 Classic as
particularly boxy -- those designs are still rather handsome even today.
The squared off 65 and 66 are a different story! Under the skin the same
as the 63-64, but the look is totally different and much more stodgy
looking -- at least to me. I still don't blame Evans for laying it on
the guy no longer around -- he still had to work with Abernethy for a
while! From the sound of the writer, Abernethy knew who was being
chastised -- but maybe that was because Evans was put over him to begin
with! 
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