[Amc-list] "Unforgettable"

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

>>
The Premier has no obvious relationship to the Golf. It's definitely
bigger and was designed specifically for the US market and built in
Bramalea. I can only think of one possibility -- was the Gold styled by
Giorgetto Giugiaro (or the Giugiaro studios)??
<<

Congratulazioni per il sforzo, Franco: Ital D. and L. Iacocca are proud.

He wrote like a politician talks ("No and Yes are exactly what I said!") but Frank hit the Rabbit on its head with his Golf club.  Uh, I meant to say "...like Nathan Thurm talks."  No politicians ever obsfucate.  My bad.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzLO2UJdmxM

Since gas costs only 27.9 cents a gallon, come Ramble in my Ambassador.

Rumble not: that's what I paid at its first fill-up!  In March of 1971.

Uh, I meant to say "3 dollars 27.9 cents."  My bad.  I still Ramble on.

Both the VW and the AMC-built Renault Premier were designed by Giugaro.

And you all know what the development name for that car was.  "Marlin!"

Gremlin, Pacer, and AMX are not the only AMC names to be unforgettable.

I neglected to note the last contestant who played "Stump the Rambler" and realized that I neglected to respond to some posts from back then.

I'll do so belatedly, before I forget where I am and Ramble off again.

http://www.yagelski.com/sbox/music/unforgettable.gif

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longest model name in service?  The 'Ambassador' name was used from 1927 (by Nash) until 1974 (by AMC)....that might be a longevity record. (?)
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http://www.asda-greatstuff.co.uk/images/comp-header2.gif

Thanks, Dave: we'll give Mr. Borkman a round of applause.

In 1974, and for several years thereafter, Ambassador held the claim to the longest -uninterrupted- (save by WW II) use of a model name in auto history.  Over three-plus decades, that title has been eclipsed, despite some of Ambassador's "competitors" having now disappeared also.  Anyone up to a listing? 

"...that's what you are..."

http://tinyurl.com/2jceqr

http://www.autospies.com/images/users/M53R/bmw%20m3.jpg

http://tinyurl.com/2rdqxx
 
...unforgettable...

"The Sky Slide, an industry exclusive, works like a giant sunroof creating an open space 33-inches by 41-inches.  It's four times the size of a standard sunroof but it still operates the same way for a driver.  A switch opens the roof electronically, gathering the canvas at either end.  When completely open, passengers in the second row will be able sit under an open sky.  [We] spent months testing to ensure the roof wouldn't leak and would seal tightly when closed."

-Rick Reuter, Jeep Liberty chief engineer, April, 2007

http://www.autocult.com.au/img/gallery/TorqueOmata3976.jpg

http://graduate.gradsch.uga.edu/archive/84.jpg

http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B16155.jpg
http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B16158.jpg

...though near or far...

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I wonder if there isn't some long term animosity between automotive
manufacturing in India and what used to be American Motors.
<<

Since John Elle hinted at "Hindustan," name him today's AMC Ambassador; for sinning at the "grill," revoke his honorary citizenship in Holcomb, the ghostly town where Ambassador ancients, Spirit spirits, Packard and Plymouth phantoms and several living, breathing Bow Ties, to name but a few, still reside.  AMC fans who don't differentiate deserve a zap from its rock crusher.  (Which, lest Sandwich make Hay, is not a Muncie M-22,  

http://www.antiquewireless.org/museum/tour11.htm

but does its shift beside a park where there's a fine antique car show.  The sun shines every day in California or Arizona, but when the snow stops falling in Western New York, the old cars still do Ramble on out.

I saw a perfect Plymouth woody and a stunning Studebaker Coupe Express in that very park last summer.  If I had been in that park in the summer of 1922, I might've seen a Model T pass with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Harvey Firestone in it.  Returning from a camping trip (chauffeur driving; HF never had a license), it was ticketed for speeding on the same highway --- Routes 5 & 20 --- in Le Roy, NY.  If Henry had had a Ford GT then, if Harvey had had four Firehawk 668 slicks on it, or if Tom had had his still & video digital camera phone invented then, I'd link you to YouTube.  Alas, they all turned out to be total failures.

Mazda, Bridgestone, and GE, today.  It is hard to stay unforgettable.  

It's even harder to not forget to respect an AMC rule: do not Ramble.

My bad again.  AMC content.  Thomas Jeffery was Henry Ford's primary cohort-in-crime in the slaying of the Selden patent.  There were Seldens at that show.   

And since no one commented on it, don't forget the car in that ~1940 movie marquee photo that looked like the car in that 1939 Ambassador advertisement.  It was -not- built by Nash.  It -was- built by Ford.  When an Ambassador wasn't playing a Pierce-Arrow, a Duesenberg, or a Cadillac, it played a Pontiac, a Buick, and, in that streetscape, a Lincoln.  Unforgettable?  No?  AMC fans need more work on memories.

"...like a song of love..."

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"little old lady" customer with a stripper '66 Ambo with a flathead 6

she would occasionally get it sideways in the garage somehow (too much wine, I think).  She'd call about once a month, and I'd have to make a service call with a floor jack to get the car straightened out in her garage so she could get it out.
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http://www.grapelive.com/images/1280x1024_cliff.jpg

"...it's incredible..."

Teach the children!

Moral to the story:

Drinking Pinot Noir?

In an AM Ambassador?

Sideways in a garage!

In Vino?  In Veritas.

Shield the children!

Immoral to it also:

Floor jack required?

Poor little old lady!

Her flathead stripper

Didn't bring his pole.

(Triple-entendre version even funnier: "use" your imagination...) 

<Groan>

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It's ironic that some of the best cars, at least as far as profits for
the maker are concerned, have been those with the most
interchangeability. They have also sold well!! The 63-65 Classic was a
big money maker and hit with the public. The most recognized (and now
reviled?) example is the plethora of K-cars and their spawn, but
Chrysler was very much alive and healthy while building them, as
compared to now with many discrete platforms.

Seems that the auto industry never learns, and keeps repeating! AMC went
under largely due to the break and expense of multi-platforms, though
they did keep some parts interchangeability (front suspension,
drivetrains don't really count!) going, and did keep the bottom line
cars interchangeable for years -- though I wouldn't go so far as to say
that was exactly intentional. Chrysler is now on the block largely due
to the same reason -- to many platforms, which reduces profits.
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Daimler learned something from ownership of Chrysler-Jeep-AMC: this week Zetsche revealed that future Mercedes models will share much more across car lines.  Something that has been totally anathematic to Stuttgart --- especially for cars built in Sindelfingen.  Don't forget that Iacocca's K-cars and his E Class:

http://www.tocmp.com/brochures/Chrysler/1983/EClass/index.htm 

(Doubtful Daimler dudes found it fitting: I find it funny, now and then)

http://tinyurl.com/2xz7j6 

(Click "Die neue..." and "35 bilder" and remember: they're only Photoshop)

will live on long after the Chrysler curse is done.  Maybe Mercedes can raise its consumer confidence rankings as well.  Today there is nowhere to go but up.  (Mercedes is currently last...)

...is unforgettable too.

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> You just reminded me of a favorite passage in Zen and the Art of
> Motorcycle Maintenance, when Phaedrus cuts up an aluminum beer can for
> shim stock to secure the handlebars on his buddy's BMW, and Phaedrus'
> phriend phreaks out  cause he sees the material for what it IS (an old
> Coors can) rather than for what it DOES...

...which neatly sums up the difference between people who make
things, and people who don't.
<<

When "my" "house" was built, two ceiling chandeliers were not delivered in time for the opening (the architects had not determined early enough that more illumination would be needed, so they ordered late); and some resourceful someone had a pair of galvanized steel vessels --- washtubs from some farm supply store --- wired, trimmed, gilded and "temporarily" hung.  85 years later, they're still there.  They've become legends and they will still hang there following a $25 million update.  Why is that?

The "boss" (who'd been one of the richest men in the world for decades) decided the lights did what they were supposed to, and they didn't look too bad, so he cancelled a late delivery, putting his $5,000 (or was it $10,000?) toward some other philanthropic undertaking, and there was no further discussion: his "house" still has the longest marquee the world has ever seen (367 feet), his central chandelier still weighs ~2.5 tons (35 feet high/14 feet wide), his concert seat still is in the mezzanine (first row/far right/on the aisle), and his visions still are washtubs.

He had Rambler Mentality.  He shined lights on it.  The best way to be.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivegreen/202973565/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalboz17/115076472/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottoneeleven/249178319/

Ramble on.
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