Barbra Is the president of C.A.M.O The AMO club here in CT that I joined last year! You should see her and Vic's garage and their BBB AMX nice ,,,,,,really nice. It looks like an AMC museum!
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.
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 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!
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.
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