Schmidt Meister Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 1951 Chevrolet 3100 Stepside 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 3 minutes ago, Schmidt Meister said: 1951 Chevrolet 3100 Stepside That truck never looked that good when it was NEW 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 4 hours ago, DAKA said: That truck never looked that good when it was NEW Richard Kughn, who owned Lionel for a number of years, was also a car collector of note. In response to a question during a tour of part of his car collection, he said that a brand new factory fresh car couldn’t even place in a judged show. Wasn’t good enough. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 13 minutes ago, railfancwb said: Richard Kughn, who owned Lionel for a number of years, was also a car collector of note. In response to a question during a tour of part of his car collection, he said that a brand new factory fresh car couldn’t even place in a judged show. Wasn’t good enough. I believe the term is "Over Restored" This happens (used to anyway) with Corvettes...the fiberglass as new had "waves" I've seen some that looked lite they were made of stamped steel Beautiful, but unrealistic.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tous Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 I learned to drive in a white, 1963 Tempest coupe. Mom's car. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 5, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted September 5, 2022 How would you like some of this? Notice the Matador skulking about in the showroom? 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 AMC brilliantly decided that what America needed was to build the Renault 9 in Wisconsin and called them the Alliance. The Alliance wasn't a terrible automobile, but it wasn't that good, either. Plus, it was French. AMC went belly-up for the final time not long after. Probably stopped them from importing the Twingo. Didn't stop them from offering the LeCar. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 5, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted September 5, 2022 27 minutes ago, tous said: AMC brilliantly decided that what America needed was to build the Renault 9 in Wisconsin and called them the Alliance. The Alliance wasn't a terrible automobile, but it wasn't that good, either. Plus, it was French. AMC went belly-up for the final time not long after. Probably stopped them from importing the Twingo. Didn't stop them from offering the LeCar. The AMC / Renault partnership was doomed from the start. Even if the Alliance and Fuego had been decent cars, there was no parts or service network established here for their cars and AMC didn’t have the resources to make it happen, at that point. Then the whole mess got dropped in Chrysler’s lap. I’ve worked on a number of French cars, including Renault Fuego, Alliance and LeCar and on Citroëns. I don’t like how the French design cars and I did not enjoy working on them. Hell, I’ve worked on quite a few Yugos as well and I don’t think the build quality was that much worse than the Renaults. The Yugos were certainly easier to work on. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 I know that the Alliance was built in Kenosha, were the LeCar and Fuego assembled there as well? AMC and the previous incarnation Rambler were never the best-made automobiles. I guess Kenosha wasn't Detroit. Did Peugeot try to establish a market in America years ago? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Was AMC the baby of Romney the Elder toward its end? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT4494 Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 27 minutes ago, railfancwb said: Was AMC the baby of Romney the Elder toward its end? Yep!! He was the final CEO if memory is correct 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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