Old News

 

March 6, 2007
I apologize for being derelict on my duties as of late, seems work and home life keeps getting in the way of fun!

The main thing I want everyone to know about is the upcoming Spring Daytona Show on March 23-24-25, 2007. I assume the AMC show day is Saturday the 24th as in years past.
http://daytonabeachcarshows.com/springdex.html
This is a BIG AMC event
http://daytonabeachcarshows.com/sclubs.html
It is a show-in-a-show that in years past has drawn 40-50 AMCs. I have gone several times (sadly never with my Javelin) and it has always been a great time. You may even find some AMC parts here since vendors know the AMC guys attend. Go to our web site to see pictures of past shows
http://www.neoreality.com/archery/amcpics.html

Heres what Sheri has to say about the show:

Hi!
 
JD & I are hosting theThe AMC Show Within a Show at the Spring Daytona Show,
for First Coast AMC.  Cliff Danley is unable to do the show this year and asked
the club for volunteers, and we accepted the challenge!  We wanted to know if you
would mind passing the show information along to your club members. The show will
be in the same spot that it has been for the last several years on the infield.
We will have Participants Choice Trophies along with Presidents Choice. We will
also have an Under Construction and a Daily Driver Trophy.  There will be goody
bags, door prizes and maybe a few more surprises!  We would like to see even more
AMC cars there this year than last year!  We would be happy to send you a flyer
for your newsletter if you like.  If you would like more info about the show please
email or call 352-303-9094.  We appreciate your help!
 
The website for the show is Daytonabeachcarshows.com.  The contact information has
not been updated yet but should be any day now, we hope.   You can give our contact
information to your club members until
 
Thanks,
Shari Bare
First Coast AMC

I will be there Saturday with my family so the Javelin stays home again :(

Hope to see you all there!!
November 7, 2006
Did you get an email from me? If not, you will want to. I just sent one out with a very special offer to club members. The only way I have to communicate with members is through emails and this web site, so if you didn't just get my email, send me one saying so.
October 30, 2006
The N Ft Myers Sonics cruise has been cancelled. The reason given was complaints. Mondays will once again move to Ritters in Cape Coral starting Nov 6th. Updated cruise pages check it out

I'm just curious if anyone other than SWFAMC club members use and enjoy this web site. If so, I would love to hear from you, send me an email to: toxoph@ embarqmail.com (remove space)
October 24, 2006
The Mopars with Big Daddy Show in Ocala is Nov 4-5. This is a great show, tons of Mopars, usually about 12-15 AMCs. Definitely a show worth going to. Click here for flyer and info

We have a flyer for the Mopar/AMCs in the Park show. Click Here

New Cruise in Naples, Our Mopar man in Naples sent me this;

Now that the dry weather is here, the Saturday Cruise night in Naples is back in full swing. Cars start showing up at about 5 pm and stay till about 7:30- 8:00. The location is at the S.E corner of Airport Rd and Pine Ridge Rd, in the Circuit City parking lot, behind the Boston Market.  A few of us have tentative plans to go this Saturday, so join in for some fun ! 
 
Greg Zeneski
Magnum HP Inc.
Naples, Florida
(239)-513-0750
 

Updated the cruise page with some new cruises and shows, check it out
October 4, 2006
The Big Show The 5th Annual Mopars/AMC's in the Park will be Sunday, December 10th, 2006 at Woodmere Park, South Venice, the same place it has been held the last couple years. We are still working out details but this looks like another great show. Mark your calendars now!!

New Cruise in North Fort Myers, Last Monday was the first night of the new Sonics Drive-In cruise in North Fort Myers which will be every Monday night. There were 115 cars there last Monday!! Done by Mike and Melody who do great events.

Another big Car Show will be held in Downtown Fort Myers Dec 3, the weekend before our AMC show, December looks like a great Month! This is the closest I have found to a flyer

We have a new member, All welcome Jake White and his sweet Gremlin!

September 14, 2006
Cancelled! The Hudson-AMC-Orphan car show  has been cancelled according the the event promoters.
July 27, 2006
Hudson-AMC-Orphan car show in Crystal River Florida will be held October 13-14th. This looks like a good show and not too far. I was glad to see this show. Thanks Michael and Cliff for sending us the information. Click here for the flyer, Adobe required

Although I avoid Walmart whenever possible, you may want to check out the new Gremlin and Pacer diecast and radio control cars there that have just started to appear in our area.

Updated the members page deleting some and adding cars
June 8, 2006
Added the 2005 Daytona Spring Show pictures. I found these on my hard drive and I couldn't believe I hadn't added them before. Better late than never I guess!  There are over 50 pictures of some great cars. One of the greatest gatherings of AMCs in the south. Go here to see the pictures

Redesigned the main web page a little to clean it up
June 2, 2006
Updated the Cruises and Shows mostly just deleting cruises that have been cancelled.

Updated the Members car section to show member Steve Clarks new paint job, you gotta go check it out!.

 
 
June 8, 2004
The cruise is this Friday and to be honest, I'm not very optimistic about the weather. It seems we are in our normal rain patterns. So I guess we will just have to wait and see. We knew it was risky to plan on that date. If it does rain, we may try to reschedule. As I said, we'll wait and see. So hopefully, the weather will be nice and I'll see you all there.
May 21, 2004
I added another member, Jordan and Vicki from Moore Haven. They own a 70 AMX, white with a shadow mask. The car isnt on the road right now, they are still collecting parts.

June 11th is quickly approaching, I have had about 4 replies on people planning on coming. I talked to the DJ and the President of the Charlotte Cruisers, all are very receptive on our being there. Tom, the DJ, even started announcing the event and will do so at all his events, so the cruise is definitely on! I passed out about 50 flyers so far and listed it and emailed the local AMC and Mopar clubs. So print out the flyer and pass them out! The only other thing left to do is pray for nice weather.

A club pin in our future? Club member Kenny, has a club pin he can make for us.

Looks really nice Kenny! We will discuss this at the June 11th get together.

Anyone interested in poker? There is a poker run on June 13th. Proceeds for a good cause to help pay a patients medical bills. There are 2 start places, one in Naples and one in Ft. Myers, both end at Victory Lane in N. Ft. Myers. Top prize is a $2,500 paint job For more details, click here
May 11, 2004

I added about 5 more photos of members rides including Jeff's awesome tubbed, dual quad 401 Spirit!

So how many of you are going to the AMC/Mopar cruise next month? (see above or below) Please email me and let me know. If you want to see what the cruise is like, there is one this Friday, the 14th, every second Fri.
April 28, 2004

I added a jpg file of a flyer I made for the June 11th Mopar/AMC cruise, Click here to print a flyer I have tried to make it printer friendly in you Internet Explorer browser. Print these out and pass them out at any cruise ins or shows you attend between now and the cruise.
April 26, 2004
Any one need a 401 motor? There is one for sale right here in Cape Coral on Ebay. Starting bid $600, not a bad price if its nice. Link here or search item number 2475716723 He also has the 401 emblems.
April 13, 2004
Big News! I met with (Mr Mopar) Matt to talk about a Mopar/AMC gathering. We decided to start out simple. We are going to have a "Cruise within a Cruise" on June 11, 2004, the second Friday at the Port Charlotte McDonalds. This is a great cruise which has been in existence for many years. There are regularly 70+ cars here, we are hoping to add an additional 40+ Mopar/AMCs. I know this is a north for you Naples people but I think this is a good site for our first gathering. Maybe we can draw some Tampa bay area AMCers. Normal times are 5-9+/- pm but we need to get there as early as possible. Parking can be tight so try to get there early. I will be making up a flyer soon for all to download. Hopefully the weather will cooperate, we will try to add a rain date.

I added a new member, Tom Baumhard who bought Danny's 71 Javelin, a really nice car.
March 26, 2004
Congratulations to Tony! Heres why:
Just wanted to let you know that, on March 13th, I went to the Naples Depot Car Show with my 69 AMX and took 1st place in my class (1960 to 1969) a make up of various makes of vehicles. It was not Peoples Choice but a judged show of three or four judges for each vehicle. Boy was I happy.  Talk to you soon.
Tony Panaro

Congrats Tony!

The April issue of Hemming Muscle Machines has a nice article on a 1971 Hornet SC/360 clone, nice car and nice article, pick up your copy soon

The current issue of Muscle Car Review has a feature on a nice 1972, 401, 4 speed SST Javelin. Another nice car and article.
March 23, 2004
Big Update. We have 5 new members which I have added to our members page That brings our total membership to around 23.

Saturday I went to the Daytona Speedway for the Spring Show. AMC owners gather here to have an "AMC show within a Show". Nearly 40 AMCs, Hudsons, Nashes and Ramblers took part from all around the nation. Many exceptional cars were present. I added some pictures I took on the pictures page Be sure to check them out, examples include a tubbed AMX, a blown Javelin, a 67 Marlin just to name a few. Members in attendance were Dick Psyks 1973 Javelin AMX, Kenneth McCanns AMX and newly added member Scott Rambos beautiful 1970 Javelin.

Sunday I went to the Charlotte County Super Cruise. There were over 400 cars there including 6 AMCs I counted including SWFAMC members Chris daetz's 72 Javelin and Richard Ellsworths Metropolitan. New members included Estas & Dottie Kelly's 1970 Javelin, Kenny Anderson's 1965 Marlin, Delner Kier's 1976 Gremlin and Turner's (sorry, I need your full name) Metropolitan.

Please look over the membership page to see if your information is correct and email me with changes or additions or pictures to add. I also added a couple new pictures there.
March 19, 2004
Added a links section with all my links I have collected over the years, lots of good information there.
March 11, 2004
Added a pictures page with some pics I had already plus the recent Lakes Park show. I still have some photos to add to that.

Added a new banner for our site, It looks a little better than before. I also added some new pictures in the member section.

Be thinking about what you would like our club name to be. I just temporarily gave it the name "Southwest Florida AMC". If there's a better name, email me and we can vote on it. Also, any of you artist out there, start designing a logo for the club, no big hurry on either

A week from this Saturday, March 20, 2004, is the mini AMC show at Daytona Beach in the speedway. I might be going but I wont be taking my Javelin. I just cant afford to trailer it and its not running good enough to drive it. I know Dick Psyk will be bringing his excellent 73 Jav/AMX
March 2, 2004
The Lakes Park show Saturday was great, the weather was nice and there were about 500 cars there. The only bad part about the show was having to listen to the auctioneer for 2 hours over the speaker system. There were 6 AMCs there, my (Tim Walker) 1973 Javelin, Steve Thorp's 1974 Javelin, Chris Daetz's 1972 Javelin, Tony Panaro's 1969 AMX, Karen Maness's 1968 AMX (with Rick driving it) and Fred Cartwright's 1962 Rambler (along with Glendora!).

None of us won awards but the hard luck award has to go to Chris when he lost his hood on I-75 doing 70mph! Evidently the fiberglass at the hood latch gave way letting the hood fly up and ripping the glass at the hinges, blowing over the Javelin and narrowly missing the car behind him! Chris did go back to retrieve his hood chrome but left the shattered hulk on the side of the road. Chris took it all very well, (I would have been bawling!), in fact this will allow him to get a factory cowl hood rather than the all fiberglass one he had.

We took lots of pictures and as soon as I get them developed, I'll post them. If Steve has some, feel free to email them to me.

I want to welcome our newest member, Don Magnus. He owns a 1969 American with a SCRambler B scheme paint job. This was the car formally owned by Bernie. Don and I talked at the show and he really wants to fix the car up, welcome Don!
February 26, 2004
I added the members page, link above. I also added a fun area called Sightings & Rumors, basically this is when we spot or see an AMC and we dont know who owns it, click on it and you'll see.

Looks like there may be as many as 6 AMCs at the Lakes Park Show this Saturday. Try to make it with or without your car.
February 24, 2004
The launch of this web site! For now its just something quick I threw together, I'll refine it in upcoming months. Below is some news you may enjoy, some I had sent out in emails

Hemmings Muscle Machines has a wonderful article on 71-74 Javelin/AMXs along with an article on the 57 Rambler Rebel. There is also a picture of the little known AMC powered Indy car. The current issue is March 2004. Most places carry it. I found mine at Books-a-million. Hemmings Muscle Machines has featured an AMC in every one of its 6 issues, well worth subscribing to and at only $12 a year, a great value. Past articles include the SCRambler, The Machine, 304 Gremlin to name a few. https://www.hemmings.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/subscribe.HMMsub

Also, the current March issue of Hot Rod has an excellent buildup of the AMC 390 which applies to 360s and 401s too. 541 hp isn't bad! Well worth getting.

Mark your calendars for the Daytona Spring show at the Daytona Speedway on March 19-21. Saturday, the 20th, is the AMC show within a show. Last year there were about 33 AMC cars there, a low attendance since rain kept most away. Link here;http://www.daytonabeachcarshows.com/sclubs.html

If you want to find the best AMC forum on the internet, go here;http://www.amcforum.net/
I post here all the time, I'm FL_Javelin. The information you can find here is invaluable.