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On AMC hoarding: a lot of us frustratingly pulled
TONS of parts back when there was....still..stuff to pull. And a lot of the
stuff little to zero interest, but knew that if it breaks, bends, or tears,
probably myself, or someone else could use it. It's how I ended up with 22 tons
of stuff at one point. On the other hand, you can also read my frustration on
some of the files on my site seeing so much go to waste, some of the oldest
files on my site deal with that like ALTERED AMCS or PORT HOPE.
Yes, you do have a lot of people who hoard things,
on other side of the coin you got a ton of people who try their best to save
everything and some successful, others are not. But they try, even it is is a
Eagle, or Spirit. As for junkyards they are in business to make money. While we
cheer if a AMC brings 'good money' at a auction, don't forget all those parts
cars that made it happen either. No one is obligated to sell anything you know!
And as I tell people daily...two edged sword here with technology continuing to
evolve quickly, there has been many, many great things reproduced for AMC hobby
in last 15 years than past 40 years COMBINED. Mirrors, grilles, seats, door
panels, timing chain covers, simulated exhausts, ram air items, back glass, door
glass, dash pieces, gauges, so good time to be a AMCer.
You will always have 'AMC Cars In Barns &
Rotting Ramblers'
and do a online search for ED HOOPER AMC and also
AMC ESTATE SALE and two huge hidden files come up off my site. Ed Hooper was
classic hoarder, God bless him, was a good man, but bought every AMC he seemed
to cross paths with. Rarely did anything with them either, just sort of
collected them to collect, then sit in field or barn. The 'rotting ramblers'
file above shows a lot of cars wasted away as that day never comes to those for
whatever reason. The king of hoarders could have been late Harold LeMay with
over 1000 cars in collection, many of them AMC, even his family didn't know of
all the cars and warehouse in northwest he had until he died. Good intentions
all.
Many AMCers who have done this for awhile know what
is rare and what is not, especially for certain models. They also know if they
sit on something too long say, NOS, and it gets reproduced their NOS whatever
part suddenly worth like Facebook stock after repros hit market. It's why I have
a VENDORS list on my site
as I encourage people to shop around, one guy might
have part and not want to sell, other will, but can't expect them to sell, even
if they have item one needs. I could name a whole lot of people who have items I
would love to have for possible reproduction purposes but they won't part with
them. That's fine I move on and try to find another. I think what amazes me that
25 years after AMC's demise there is so much interest in some of these cars, not
that some are worth anything (which prompted original NY Times link at bottom!)
but that many people continue to fix them up and restore them. And to me at
least, that is a good thing. And with the quality of a number of reproduction
items that continued to be made by a wide array of places for AMC, it is
encouraging, and also uplifting to see the quality of the remaining survivor
cars, the bar has been raised. So good thing.
Eddie Stakes
Planet Houston AMX 713.464.8825 days eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.planethoustonamx.com
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