Re: Wives & Our Cars (Money)

["amc74hornet" <AMC74HORNET@xxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxx> wrote:
> 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 off as Bart said 'the old jimmy!' over it. 
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> 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. 
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> Without the support many of the women in our AMC lives, I can tell you from a personal standpoint I would not have owned 292 AMCs 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 sodas in 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! 
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> So hats off, to all the Women of AMC, they do make a huge difference, whether in the national, or local clubs, or in our daily lives. 
> Eddie Stakes
> www.planethoustonamx.com
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When I told my wife I bought the new orange Hornet she just rolled her eye's and said whatever and walked away. After she saw the car close up she thought it was a nice car. The week after I put the plates on it we took it to the local cruise, we alway's go to them together. I pick her up from work and we have a nice night out and are home by 9-10pm. She get's up at 5:45am to get ready to go to work. The car decides that the Alt. was going to fail on the way home that night, but luckily the cruise is only 5 miles from where I live. When I belonged to a car club years ago my wife and some of the members wives and girl friends did more than their share to make things work. It usually was the women of the members that did all the work that were helping. If you have ever been in a club of any kind you know it is a few mwmbers that do everything, and all the rest do is complain on how it was done. I don't know if this is a good percentage Eddie but I got one out of 3 kids into AMC's. The oldest son own's his own catering business and is not interested, my daughter and her husband are in high finance and drive BMW's and couldn't be bothered and my yougest son is the AMC one. Do I get points for one out of three?
"Doc"