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Yeah, my friend was a super good guy, but he occasionally was too swayed by popular opinion of what was cool and uncool. I never had a chance to ride in an Eagle, and I really didn't see that many of them. I guess if they had been more popular, AMC might have survived. I agree that the Eagle was ahead of its time. Subaru has made a great deal of money on 4x4 sedans.

I think AMC did have many interesting cars such as the Rebel, the Ambassidor, and so on. There is one ham radio operator around here who bought his 1964 Rambler (what AMC was called before it was AMC) American new and he still drives it around to this day. THr Subaru Outback and it's pickup version are cool looking.

My grandmother had a Hornet, and that car seemed good to me at the time. I'm not sure whether the car was really that nice or whether I just liked it because I associated the car with my grandmother. Officially, I was supposed to take the car after her death, but I wasn't in a good position in life to have a second car. She had a neighbor who had done a great deal to help her live independently for the last ten or fifteen years of her life, and he wanted the car to teach his grandson to drive. I let him have the car. I halfway think that my grandparents may have had a Rambler before they had the Hornet.