Not a rant at all. And with wikipedia any person with electricity in their
trailer can go in and edit stuff. I put this in my uhm, rant if you noticed
"I don't have time to straighten it out, best leave that to
> VAM 'experts' of which I am not one" so hopefully someone who actually
> cares....and knows.....about the VAM cars can 'go straighten it out'. Not
> that it would matter. Some Ford guy will step in and quickly point out
> that 'the AMC 390 is really a Ford 390 because their friend had one'. Eh,
> or they read it on wikipedia or on back of Hot Wheels box I guess.
Eddie Stakes
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor the Cleaner" <jonathan@canuck.com>
To: "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@planethoustonamx.com>; "AMC/Rambler owners,
drivers and fans." <amc-list@amc-list.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Amc-list] VAM on 'the prestigious internet' site
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 03:41:15PM -0500, Eddie Stakes wrote:
>
>> Hi Jonathan, no, I don't want a wikipedia account, nor have a intention
>> of
>> ever wanting one. I don't have time to straighten it out, best leave that
>> to
>> VAM 'experts' of which I am not one. But due to crap like wikipedia is
>> why
>> we have stuff out there like the new Hot Wheels 71 AMX. While the details
>> and the car are nice, on back it has 'born in: Auburn Hills, Michigan'
>> and
>> 'designer: Chrysler LLC' and 'specialty: big a big rear spoiler, fender
>> bulges and optional denim interior, this muscle car was made for straight
>> line performance'
>>
>> My point is simple: if someone had bothered to simply do a little
>> research
>> instead of relying of some fool blogging on wiki (I don't know what
>> Mattel's
>> problem was, but guess is that they found erroneous information off a
>> website; maybe wikipedia!) but it now takes years of undoing what one now
>> sees on back of Mattel's new Hot Wheels 71 AMX, as anyone who buys one,
>> and
>> don't really know.....will always assume that Mopar made the 71 AMX
>> 'because
>> they saw it on back of toy car box (or pick one: wikipedia, allpar, Mopar
>> website ect).
>>
>> Griping about it here is good therapy and maybe, just maybe, some folks
>> who
>> have more time on their hands will either comment in that goofy blog, and
>> get stuff straight, or even write Mattel to ask them to simply please get
>> facts straight on back of toy box. On the latter....Mattel had a 69 AMX
>> that
>> you can sometimes find on ebay, and it came out in I believe 2001. Same
>> deal, "made by Chrysler" and many people called and emailed to no avail.
>> 8+
>> years later, we get nice Hot Wheels car, but same misinformation on back.
>> Which is the gist of my original post. And as time goes on, all out cars
>> will be 'made by mopar' and more and more diluted stuff on wikipedia and
>> allpar about AMC, nothing more. It might be why no one ever commented in
>> that 'prestigious internet' blog spot, just sort of blew it off as allpar
>> for the course.
>
> Whatever. All I'm going to do it point out that creating a wikipedia
> account and correcting the offending entry (or entries) would have taken
> you less time and typing than the above rant.
>
> jl
>
>
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