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I tell you what we need is more damned women in the
hobby in all aspects. This is something that many clubs and chapters sometimes
have a difficult time recruiting. It's not like women never bought or owned, or
drove AMC products. They were a formidable buying force as they are today. It's
great to see some women like Cheryl Samuel, Mrs. Timmons, Anita Mier, Joan
Lukuszewski to name a few AMO Board Members, volunteer their time and expertise
to lead a major AMC club. And on local levels, it's great to see more and more
women getting involved, whether volunteering for a position in the club like
Barbara Nave (ya'll know Barb, she has some awesome iron like 500 Cal 500 AMX,
T/A Javelin ect) or even Elda Zinman, one of the driving forces behind the
recent huge AMO AMC nationals in CA. But don't forget those women owners who are
actively involved in the hobby, even if just bringing out their cars like Lu
here, or my wife Paige, who has driven many a AMC the past 16 years (she took
off to work in the 72 Ambassador SST wagon this morning), all are a extremely
important piece of this puzzle of a hobby we call aMC. Some simply support us
and roll their eyes when we drag home another piece of sh*t, rolling their eyes,
knowing it makes us happy while pissing off the neighbors and civic
organizations, but never thinking to grab the old butcher knife and cut offas
Bart said 'the old jimmy!' over it.
What we do need is more women in the hobby, just
like more youngsters. This is somethign I have been adamant about for decades
and tried to recruit kids and ladies, by possibly making the local club a little
friendlier for them, or even at the big meet here, helping them feel involved,
letting them know it ain't a all boys club. There are many a lady that can kick
our asses out there on the street and track too, we could go on about Shahan and
Muldowney and the doors they kicked opened in the 60s for other women too, but
let's stick to AMC and AMC ladies.
Without the support many of the women in our AMC
lives, I can tell you from a personal standpoint I would not have owned 292AMCs
or built the vendor aspect I have in 20+ years. And 16+ of that has been with
Paige, who quietly behind the scenes has done everything from selling sodasin
the 110+ degree heat at the aMC SW Regional, to design my website, to simply
pass out a Planet Houston business card on the streets of Houston when someone
askes about the AMC Anything she is driving. Wish I could clone her! Yes, that
would be twice the bitching, and maybe two sets of Lorena Bobbitt's jimmy
cutting shears, but what the heck, I'm a gambling man!
So hats off, to all the Women of AMC, theydo make
a huge difference, whether in the national, or local clubs, or in our daily
lives.
Eddie Stakes
www.planethoustonamx.com *Note volume of email is extremely heavy, expect 7-16 day responses
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