Re: [BaadAssGremlins] My Hornet is in PHR magazine...barely. Color me irked.

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Hi John, well, with all due respect, Popular Hot Rodding has been like a 4 
hour old pair of Pampers on Noah's butt in the 99 degree here here in 
Houston with 60% humidity (felt like 109 today); but PHR has been abuot the 
same for years. You can throw both of them on the wall and they stick, and 
the pampers and phr both smell like crap. Suggestion? This is easy. Since 
you will obviously want to show off those pages to your friends, or on your 
website.

So simply 'rambler mentality' out and take a single edged razor blade and go 
to some places like Barnes & Nobles and silently slice out the page(s) you 
need and put the book back, duh.

Don't get your soiled New Jersey panties to wadded, as you have to remember 
the source. When was the last time PHR did anything worth a crap AMC wise? 
It is 'Primedia' which owns other ilk like 'super chevy' and 'chevy high 
performance' and crap like that.

Mainstream. You shuold have mentioned to them that Chevy is built in China 
now, boy, that would have ruined their day:
 http://www.forbes.com/columnists/columnists/2004/03/30/cz_jf_0330flint.html
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W Rosa" <JohnRosa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "BaadAssGremlins" <BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 6:35 PM
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] My Hornet is in PHR magazine...barely. Color me 
irked.


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>
> Thanks to Wynn, I found out my '73 Hornet X is pictured
> and mentioned on pages 60-61 of the October issue of
> Popular Hot Rodding.
>
> It's in a small article that explains why certain cars
> weren't chosen for the article preceding this one. Nine
> tiny pictures of cars they considered 'runners-up' are
> Shown, with text featuring the following quote-
>
> "Some cars that didn't make the list were just too
> screwball for the mainstream"
>
> My car isn't mainstream, but a 1981 Chrysler Imperial is?!?
>
> "...for instance...the '73 AMC Hornet hatchback that sports
> a grille that's the spitting image of a '67 GTX."
>
> What follows are the comments I forwarded to the PHR editors...
>
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>
> Regarding October's '9 cars you need to build', all I can say is.
> you guys need to pull yer hedzs out of yer azzez. Your tag line
> reads 'There's more to life than Mustangs and Camaros'.then in
> the 9 cars you include an '82 Camaro and a '67 Cougar (i.e., a
> gaudy Mustang). And then there were seven.
>
> '81 Imperial??? Sorry- nothing could make the similarly styled
> Seville's rear look good, and the same is true for the Imperial.
>
> Then we have the '73 Laguna and the '72 Torino Gran Sport.I'll
> give you that those two cars are great choices.and I'll be happy
> to build one.but you have to find one for me. Good luck.
>
> An '80 Cutlass? A '93 Mark VIII? There's a theme in this mess.
> blah cars, obnoxious paint and 20" wheels.it's like an episode
> of 'Pimp My Ride'.
>
> Does anyone over there have an original thought?
>
> Isn't Hot Rodding supposed to be personalization? What's personal
> about buying off the shelf pieces, slapping them all together and
> calling it 'custom'??? Real Hot Rodding involves creating of
> components yourself. You aren't Hot Rodders- you're Blister-
> Packers. You won't drive it if a complete long block isn't
> available at Wal-Mart for it. Yawn. Anybody with money can order
> up one of your pseudo-Foose specials. Buy a tool set instead and
> build something from scratch. The rejected '69 Fairlane 500
> fastback is a better choice than most of the cars you picked.
> Heck, restoring a car like my '73 AMC Hornet X (the last car
> pictured in your 'The Ones That Got Away' epilogue) to factory-
> stock is closer to Hot Rodding than anything you showed in that
> article, as even sources for the stock stuff are drying up fast.
> but it's too 'screwball' for you. Yea, it sucks when you have to
> actually work for it, eh? Now enough with the 'wish-I-were-a-So-
> Cal-low-rider' dubs and put some road-worthy wheels on those cars.
>
> Put down that JCWhitney catalog and get to work, you posers.
>
> One more thought...exactly what about my Hornet is screwball?
> It has everything the best cars get- Factory V8 (360cid...
> that's ten more than 90% of the Chevys you feature), Twin-
> Grip rear (i.e., posi) with 3.54:1 gears, RWD, 2-doors, Rally
> wheels, X-stripes, pony-car styling... The only thing I can
> think of that would qualify it as a 'screwball' is the unjust
> reputation suffered by the moniker 'AMC', which AMXs routinely
> defend at the track quite readily. I'm truly left stumped as
> the only reason I can see for considering the car a 'screwball'
> is simple ignorance.
>
> Finally....if the '73 Hornet's grille is the spitting image of a
> '67 GTX, then the GTX is the spitting image of the '66 Rambler...
> See attached pics.
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