American Motors AMX Show by Classic AMX Club of New England

For info on this show visit THEAMCFORUM.COM under upcomming events and meets this is a fantastic resource for AMC or AMX owners or for those interested in buying an AMC!!

For all you AMC owners and fans out there the classic AMX club of New England is bringing back its annual show and swapmeet of AMC Muscle cars and classics.  It will be held sept 2nd in West Bridgewater Mass. South of Boston.  Get that AMX or Javelin Scrambler Hurst Sc/360 or Hurst Rebel Machine out of the driveway and to this show!!! See some of the rarest and fastest Muscle cars ever built(also the most underrated) and partcipate in one of the fastest growing segments of the current Muscle car market! Hope to see you there with your AMC!!!
AMCMUSCLE
68' 343 AMX  

Visit the Real Original AMC Forum at www.amccars.net not scab forum mentioned above that stole the name of original forum. At WWW.AMCCARS.NET...the ORIGINAL AMC FORUM you will discover nice people not blowhards angry at life and others. Real moderators, not agendas. Real AMC questions answered without attitude. See why American Motors fans have left the dying scab forum in droves, get back to enjoying American Motors vehicles and the people who enjoy, drive, race, restore them. Visit the ORIGINAL AMC FORUM at WWW.AMCCARS.NET today and join up.  

Much information plagiarized from other sites. I signed up on the GAYMCforum.com but promptly left. Infighting, disinformation, inaccurate information; depressingly predictable American Motors fans self destructing. Bookmark this page to see another AMC site crater. Unprofessional, unfriendly, unlike the cheery card mentions. Content scraping should be condemned at any level but theamcforum.com takes it to another level stealing domain name of original website including content. My search for a legitimate AMC club to contribute to continues. Dawn.  

i am not a member of the scab AMC forums anymore to many idiots to deal with.
alot of people like myself with tons of knowledge don,t bother because of the attitudes of some of the people on there. it is their loss. t.  

Wow! Lots of people posting about the two forums who don't know the history. What a shame!

So... what happened is this: The guy running the AMC Forum at http://amccars.net originally started the AMC Forum quite a few years ago. So he's the "original". He had some trouble with a vendor who threatened a lawsuit over some postings, and discovered that he could indeed be sued over things that other people posted. He didn't want to censor any postings, and couldn't afford to be sued ("the guy sounded real serious"), so he closed the forum to avoid any possible legal action. It was closed for well over a year, closer to two, and maybe even three years IIRC -- but I don't recall exactly how long it was closed.

In the meantime, some of the guys who had been frequenting the original Forum were sad enough to see it go that they opened another one -- with the original Forum owner's blessings. It became popular and remained open, run by several moderators. This was done only a few months after the original closed.

Eventually the original creator decided to re-open the original AMC Forum. It hasn't become as popular as the "other" AMC Forum (www.theamcforum.com), as many decided to stay. Some went back to the original, many monitor and post on both. I personally stay mostly on www.theamcforum.com because I have more interests there (more older cars and a six cylinder specific area), but I also monitor the forum at http://amccars.net and post there as well.

This bit of fighting over it on here is really funny, as there are often cross posted links from one forum to the other, and the forum owners have never had any complaints of ill words about the similar names and formats or anything like that. In fact, the owners still all get along fine. There is some in-fighting on both forums on occasion, but no more than on any other car forum where debates and discussions about who's right and who's wrong about whatever can get pretty hot -- make doesn't matter. It's all in how a forum is moderated.

I sometimes get a little frustrated with both, as the moderators prefer to stay out of all debates unless they have to step in. I moderate a mailing list and step in well before things get out of hand. It always appears that some people get preferential treatment to those who ARE being moderated for whatever reason, and sometimes that may be -- we're all human and tend to side with those we know most.  
Frank Swygert
http://farna.att.net/AMC.html

Quote: "Visit the Real Original AMC Forum at www.amccars.net not scab forum mentioned above that stole the name of original forum. At WWW.AMCCARS.NET...the ORIGINAL AMC FORUM you will discover nice people not blowhards angry at life and others. Real moderators, not agendas. Real AMC questions answered without attitude. See why American Motors fans have left the dying scab forum in droves, get back to enjoying American Motors vehicles and the people who enjoy, drive, race, restore them. Visit the ORIGINAL AMC FORUM at WWW.AMCCARS.NET today and join up."      


Amusing that after all this time there are still people who have nothing to do with running either forum trying to disparage one and play up the other. The above is a typical example of the shallow mindedness of some of the people who attempt to drive attendance at one site vs. the other.

The AMCCARS.net site is more focused on racing and building up and racing AMC V-8 engine equipped cars to make up for the obvious inferiority complex that most AMC owners have against the other more mainstream brands. To that end, the people from AMCCARS.net frequently dis people who are unintersted in racing and more interesting in preserving the AMC brand as it came from the factory.  Some of that intersite acrimony carries over from one site to the other and is reflected here.

The AMCFORUM.com on the other hand is far less focused on the racing aspect of AMC cars and by orders of magnitude more interested in accurate restoration and documenting the originality of AMC cars.  I would not go the AMCFORUM.com for racing info no more than I would go the AMCCARS.net for restoration info.  Each serves a purpose and each is well attended by those who prefer one focus Vs the other.  

As you can probably guess from my USERID, I frequent the AMCFORUM.com and mostly ignore the AMCCARS.net as racing is not my focus.  Both sites have antagonists and both sites have helpful people.  Regretfully, the AMC hobby and its associated web sites seem to have a higher perctage of odd ducks but I guess that should be expected when considering that AMC cars were the odd ducks of the automotive world so it would seem natural that the odd ducks flocked to AMCs and still do.