i hear ya kevin. i think the retro phase in cars is winding down just a bit. mini sales are high but vw bug and cruiser sales ar way down. let's see what happens with the "new" mustang next year > [Original Message] > From: Kevin <grinding_gremlin@xxxx> > To: <gremlintime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 3/9/2004 9:52:15 AM > Subject: [gremlintime] Re: a distant cousin > > I would love to have a Pacer. Unfortunatly, I don't have that kind of $$. > It's really too bad that AMC never put the rotatry engines in those. Could you > imagine the imact they would have made? Instead I think the Pacer was > competion for the Gremlin in it's day. I am glad they built them though, > because they are now very big on the novelty car market. :) > If you really think about it the head of AMC must have been on drugs. > They had three cars under their own marque that competed with each other. > The Gremlin (the best, tee hee), the Pacer, and the little Matador. All really > keen cars, but all shooting for the same market. It's almost like having three > children and pitting them against each other to see who wins. Did not get > them very far. They sould have taken the money they put into those cars and > redesigned the Gremlin. They could have made a new four banger w/ front > wheel drive and been waaaay ahead of themselves. Not mention they should > have build that four wheel drive mini van they prototyped in 1978. We would > still be driving AMC today if someone would have just stayed off the drugs. > At any rate I heard the AMC marque has been resently re-copyrighted. > anyone hear anything about AMC making a comeback? I figure they might be > just making retro goods to sell to AMC savoy people. But ya never know. > These Gremmies are really coming back into popularity. Maybe in a few years > we can exspect a retro Gremlin or (probably) a retro Metropolitan. > ohhhhh the posiblities. > Later, Kevin > > > > Community email addresses: > Post message: gremlintime@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subscribe: gremlintime-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx > Unsubscribe: gremlintime-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx > List owner: gremlintime-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Shortcut URL to this page: > http://www.onelist.com/community/gremlintime > Gremlintime(Home of the AMC Gremlin on the WWW): > http://www.geocities.com/gremlintime > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >