America's Most Over-Rated!

[Boxlicker101]

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Originally Posted by lovecraft68
And AMC made the first car I ever owned. A 1974 AMC Matador! Thing looked like a giant Camaro, but not cool at all.

They had a decent looking car in the Hornet though and there was another AMC that was actually pretty cool, but the name is eluding me.

Believe it or not the Matador won a couple of NASCAR race with Bobby Alison driving and some TransAm races back in the 70's against the cameros, mustangs and Barracudas.

The Hudson Hornet was one of the fastest cars in it's day and won a good number of the early NASCAR races. Hudson became Rambler and Rambler stated they were more interested in the human race than in Racing. Rambler became AMC and they produced some exceptionally fast cars for a small company.

The AMC that was cool was the Avanta. I got the pleasure of driving one for a year. It was part of a nationwide test. It had a big 6 cylinder in it and would scream.

My father worked for Nash Kelvinator, which merged with Hudson and was called Nash Hudson, later American Motors. The Rambler was a model of Nash and of Hudson, until it became a make, and was the mainstay of AMC. In the 60's, they started making other brands, and they were mostly the ones I referred to. Ugly though they were, they were usually quite well made.

 

[TxRad]

Quote:
Originally Posted by lovecraft68
And AMC made the first car I ever owned. A 1974 AMC Matador! Thing looked like a giant Camaro, but not cool at all.

They had a decent looking car in the Hornet though and there was another AMC that was actually pretty cool, but the name is eluding me.




My father worked for Nash Kelvinator, which merged with Hudson and was called Nash Hudson, later American Motors. The Rambler was a model of Nash and of Hudson, until it became a make, and was the mainstay of AMC. In the 60's, they started making other brands, and they were mostly the ones I referred to. Ugly though they were, they were usually quite well made.

I stand corrected, it was American motors.

People wonder at what people saw in a Nash. The front seats folded back flat with the back seat and made one hell of a bed. Any other questions?

 

[joelafayette]

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[Cruel2BKind]

Eat, Pray, Love comes to mind for me. What a waste. A woman travels and rambles on and on. Whatever.

I hate that movie for entirely different reasons.

The part where she is trying to squeeze into her jeans after eating like a normal person?

Boo fucking hoo, you moved up to size 2!

 

[PennLady]

Eat, Pray, Love comes to mind for me. What a waste. A woman travels and rambles on and on. Whatever.

I have not read the book or seen the movie. When I had an idea of what it was about, I had no interest. A woman gets an advance to go "find herself" in India? Well, fine, but not for me.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have not read the book or seen the movie. When I had an idea of what it was about, I had no interest. A woman gets an advance to go "find herself" in India? Well, fine, but not for me.

The wife did not like the book, but when her friend dragged her to the movie said she liked it. maybe an example of it being better than the book?

Or maybe just a case of hot buttered popcorn making everything better.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Hot, buttered popcorn is never overrated!

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Believe it or not the Matador won a couple of NASCAR race with Bobby Alison driving and some TransAm races back in the 70's against the cameros, mustangs and Barracudas.

The Hudson Hornet was one of the fastest cars in it's day and won a good number of the early NASCAR races. Hudson became Rambler and Rambler stated they were more interested in the human race than in Racing. Rambler became AMC and they produced some exceptionally fast cars for a small company.

The AMC that was cool was the Avanta. I got the pleasure of driving one for a year. It was part of a nationwide test. It had a big 6 cylinder in it and would scream.

I think you are mistaken. I can't find any reference to an "AMC Avanta" anywhere. Wikipedia lists all of their models and the years produced, and there is no Avanta on the list. AMC.

I believe the car you may be referring to is the Avanti. This car was originally produced by Studebaker in 1962 and 63. Avanti. After the breakup of Studebaker, Avanti replica cars were built by various manufacturers through 2006, including at one time the Avanti Motor Corporation. Most likely, this is the car you remember.

The vehicle that lovecraft is remembering is most likely the AMC Javelin. AMC Javelin. This beautiful car--produced between 1967 and 1974--was a powerhouse, and is often overlooked in discussions of the great muscle cars of that era.

 

[oggbashan]

Made for US movies in which a handful of gun-toting Americans save the world - again.

Aren't people getting bored by the same old excuse for gratuitous violence? Or handguns that never miss at unlikely distances. Or bigger and better guns that have no apparent recoil so can be fired by scantily dressed women?

An intelligent screenplay? Why would movie-makers want that? More guns, more car chases, more crashes, more alien invaders, world domination-seeking villains - that'll do.

At least the James Bond movies knew that they were making fun of the genre.

 

[PennLady]

Made for US movies in which a handful of gun-toting Americans save the world - again.

Aren't people getting bored by the same old excuse for gratuitous violence? Or handguns that never miss at unlikely distances. Or bigger and better guns that have no apparent recoil so can be fired by scantily dressed women?

An intelligent screenplay? Why would movie-makers want that? More guns, more car chases, more crashes, more alien invaders, world domination-seeking villains - that'll do.

At least the James Bond movies knew that they were making fun of the genre.

I'm a big movie fan feel much as you do but this nothing to do with being overrated and all to do with what sells. Action movies sell so studios keep making them. When people stop spending money on them, they will make something else.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

It's a kind of vicious cycle. Movies are aimed primarily at male teen-through-twenty-somethings with no life who get off on loud noises and violence. So the studios make 'action flicks' to satisfy them. No one else wants to see such things so the only people who go to movies are . . .

And the studios make 'action flicks' to . . .

ad nauseum

 

[TxRad]

I think you are mistaken. I can't find any reference to an "AMC Avanta" anywhere. Wikipedia lists all of their models and the years produced, and there is no Avanta on the list. AMC.

I believe the car you may be referring to is the Avanti. This car was originally produced by Studebaker in 1962 and 63. Avanti. After the breakup of Studebaker, Avanti replica cars were built by various manufacturers through 2006, including at one time the Avanti Motor Corporation. Most likely, this is the car you remember.

The vehicle that lovecraft is remembering is most likely the AMC Javelin. AMC Javelin. This beautiful car--produced between 1967 and 1974--was a powerhouse, and is often overlooked in discussions of the great muscle cars of that era.

You are correct, it was Avanti and Studebaker. Getting old makes Swiss cheese out of the memory.

 

[sr71plt]

You are correct, it was Avanti and Studebaker. Getting old makes Swiss cheese out of the memory.

Makes Swiss cheese out of what? . . . Oh, never mind. (Never mind what?)

 

[lovecraft68]

I think you are mistaken. I can't find any reference to an "AMC Avanta" anywhere. Wikipedia lists all of their models and the years produced, and there is no Avanta on the list. AMC.

I believe the car you may be referring to is the Avanti. This car was originally produced by Studebaker in 1962 and 63. Avanti. After the breakup of Studebaker, Avanti replica cars were built by various manufacturers through 2006, including at one time the Avanti Motor Corporation. Most likely, this is the car you remember.

The vehicle that lovecraft is remembering is most likely the AMC Javelin. AMC Javelin. This beautiful car--produced between 1967 and 1974--was a powerhouse, and is often overlooked in discussions of the great muscle cars of that era.

Yes, the Javelin! My sister had one and was going to sell it to me and her tool of a boyfriend, ran it into a goddamn telephone pole. Shows you how little many women care about cars, I asked her the other day after posting here and she couldn't remember what it was, just said "Was that that green thing you wanted?"