SC/360 Hemming's Muscle Machine April 2004

["Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxx>]

Hey Bart and others, I posted thi son the forum eariler, thought ya'll would
like to read it. The new Hemming's Muscle Machines has a really nice article
in the April 04 issue. While the car is a "clone" SC/360, to me at least it
is a WIN/WIN situation.Why? Because the car was rescued from going to the
crusher, something many of you are familiar with and something I have
written over the years from my experiences here in Houston. And wait until
you see the article and the job the owner did with it, boy, that is reall
ynice. And well, of course there is the "exposure factor" involved. Positive
exposure like this affects all aMC owners, no matter what your choice of AMC
sled. So nice to see that, as many times AMCs when featured in other
magazines are in the back of the bus, shoved in back pages with penile
enlargement ads and viagra, a dangerous combo! But HMM has the AMC article
in the front, and keep in mind last month they featured a 71-74 AMX buyers
guide; and before that a Gremlin X and before that, well, yuo get the
picture. For $12 it is great to subscribe. Anyhows, below is the short I
posted on the www.amcforum.net website, enjoy and good night!
Eddie Stakes
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As mentioned in this thread earlier on this forum:
http://cgi.amcforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Chat;action=display;n
um=1077347340
about the 71-74 AMX & Javelin article in the March Hemming's Muscle
Machines; they followed it up in the new April 2004 issue with this:
"Recreated Rarity: Can't Find A 1971 AMC Hornet SC/360? Build Your Own"
which covers pages in full color 28 thru 33. Jim Donnelly is author, photos
by Don Spiro, and the feature car is a abandoned in a apartment complex
Hornet that was given new life by owner Bob Green and AMC fan from Cactus
Cruisers AMO chapter in Arizona (which is also hosting the aMO National meet
this summer): info:
http://www.amonational.com

While this is NOT a "real" SC/360 double kudos for the owner for rescueing a
Hornet facing destruction; and kudos for Hemming's letting people know that
you can build one of these 'clones' on the reasonable side, therefore
keeping hopefully more cars from the crusher this one was facing.

To me at least that is a double score, as the exposure factor is thru the
roof and well, this car that got 'left behind at a apartment complex when
the owners moved' was given another chance by a AMC fan. I personally would
have rather seen a 'real' SC/360 in the article and expressed this with Jim
Donnelly months ago, but also told him that I would be happy with any thing
they choose to put AMC in the magazine also!

Nice fat plug of my website that was unsolicited on page 10 of the new
April 04 Hemmings which tells about the SC/360 Registry on my website.
http://www.planethoustonamx.com/bodySC.htm
Ya'll go take a look at it darn it. I had to totally rebuild that file after
my website crashed New Years Day and it was a real to do, but has LOTS
of new photos and info. If any of you have a SC/360 that is not registered,
please send me your information to put these forgotten musclecars on the
map!

Great job by Hemming's again on some positive, colorful, and detailed AMC
coverage! Eddie Stakes' Planet Houston AMX "home of the SC/360 Registry"