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yellowcanine

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25. That time period included Mustang, Camaro, GTO, Plymouth Roadrunner, Valient, Dodge Charger and Dart

Reply to Odin2005 (Reply #6)

Thu Jul 5, 2012, 02:47 PM

Jul 2012

Most of those certainly didn't suck. There were issues around rusting out which the American car companies were very slow to fix but Japanese, German and French cars were just as bad on that score if not worse. Around 1972 with the half assed way many of the American auto companies met new emissions requirements, yes, many did suck in terms of performance, but still not at the level of AMC, which was just awful.

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Mitt's father was "an auto executive" [View all] jberryhill Jul 2012 OP

The Gremlin was terrible Politicalboi Jul 2012 #1

Gremlins can be fun too snooper2 Jul 2012 #22

Mine was pre-AMC pscot Jul 2012 #2

My dad had one of those Politicalboi Jul 2012 #4

My Buddy Had A Pacer... KharmaTrain Jul 2012 #3

OMFG, I forgot the Pacer! jberryhill Jul 2012 #5

Didn't MOST cars from that time period suck? Odin2005 Jul 2012 #6

Many did jberryhill Jul 2012 #9

That time period included Mustang, Camaro, GTO, Plymouth Roadrunner, Valient, Dodge Charger and Dart yellowcanine Jul 2012 #25

It was the ownership by AMC that nearly killed Harley-Davidson jorno67 Jul 2012 #7

That was AMF,AMC tried to kill the Jeep name IADEMO2004 Jul 2012 #8

ah...you're right. jorno67 Jul 2012 #11

So should we hate him, or his son, for this? elleng Jul 2012 #10

Uh, please quote where I exhorted anyone to "hate" anything jberryhill Jul 2012 #14

You're right, you didn't 'exhort' anyone to hate. elleng Jul 2012 #16

"Otherwise, why post about him?" jberryhill Jul 2012 #17

Apologies accepted elleng Jul 2012 #20

Mitt came by it honestly, his father was a thief as well. Egalitarian Thug Jul 2012 #12

When George Romney was president of AMC they were making cars like this: Spider Jerusalem Jul 2012 #13

Thanks for clearing that up rurallib Jul 2012 #30

what bothers me is the term auto executive--he ran the damn company dembotoz Jul 2012 #15

My father had a 1960 Rambler American Station Wagon, possibly the worst car ever built 1-Old-Man Jul 2012 #18

"the windshield wipers were overpowered by a drizzle." Ha! Vacuum wipers! yellowcanine Jul 2012 #27

They also made the AMX which I would take any day...we can do this with any auto company snooper2 Jul 2012 #19

beautiful... Blue_Tires Jul 2012 #24

I had a 1971 Gremlin in 1980, and I loved it! Archae Jul 2012 #21

My AMC experience......I test drove a Javelin, AMC's "answer" to the Mustang and Camaro, around yellowcanine Jul 2012 #23

if he'd been a gm exec would that have been better? HiPointDem Jul 2012 #26

It just strikes me as odd that the actual company is never named in reportage jberryhill Jul 2012 #28

I've heard it mentioned a few times. xmas74 Jul 2012 #31

I had a Gremlin. drm604 Jul 2012 #29

AMC wasn't that bad. xmas74 Jul 2012 #32

I don't think most people would know what "AMC" stood for. Igel Jul 2012 #33

OT, but the rambler scrambler was a onethatcares Jul 2012 #34

I thought that was just short for "Automatically Executive". ieoeja Jul 2012 #35

And who can forget the zenith of AMC engineering DainBramaged Jul 2012 #36