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Offline Eagle Kammback

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AMCs in the media
« on: November 14, 2008, 12:35:10 PM »
Well, I've been noticing a lot more AMCs on TV lately
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And last night, I was watching Life on Mars, which takes place in 1973, and there was a Pacer commercial on the TV, about being the only big small car I think, which is a mistake for the show, and the only timeline mistake I've noticed so far

this also includes magfazines and other forms of media
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Re: AMCs on the TV
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2008, 11:01:26 PM »
I just finished watching Two Lane Blacktop, in one scene, they pull up next to a green 68/9 Javelin that I think has flowers all over it
and in the background is an SC/Rambler

I watched the Starsky and Hutch movie (not worth watching, butchered the original series) and they shot up a Pacer
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Re: AMCs on the TV
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2008, 11:04:43 PM »
Don't tell nastydees a Pacer was shot up.
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Re: AMCs on the TV
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2008, 12:51:08 AM »
I saw an auto insurance ad this week that featured a Gremlin. Can't remember the company.
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Re: AMCs on the TV
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2008, 06:54:41 AM »
Probably the AARP one.  A blue Gremlin X?
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Re: AMCs on the TV
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2008, 08:25:52 AM »
Yup
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Re: AMCs on the TV
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2008, 06:14:06 PM »
which reminds me, I saw an ad for the 24 Hours of LeMons that featured a drawing of a gremlin on its roof, it was in Grassroots Motorsports
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2008, 06:59:07 PM »
I was watching The Librarian (interesting TV movie, worth watching if you have nothing else to do )
and there is a CJ in the background of several scenes
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2008, 08:13:43 PM »
That gecko insurance company has an ad often in the Sunday paper pull out, that has an old 70's pic of a guy and his girl,(prom date) standing next to a white Gremlin.

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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2008, 09:11:43 PM »
The Gremlin is the perfect prom date car
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2008, 02:05:27 AM »
i could be wrong, as i always seem to catch it a split second too late to make sure... but i'm almost certain there is a kammback or gremlin in a mini-cooper commercial thats been on lately. Has anyone seen this?
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2008, 04:40:34 AM »
Been watching the 'speed' channel alot lately...(first time I have ever had more than 2 channels in my life)..and during the show PINKS, they run their own napa commercial. Sweet little lime green Spirit in there for a few seconds.
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2008, 07:29:44 AM »
last year, there was a guy on American Idol who raced a Spirit
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #13 on: December 08, 2008, 10:55:50 PM »
That gecko insurance company has an ad often in the Sunday paper pull out, that has an old 70's pic of a guy and his girl,(prom date) standing next to a white Gremlin.

Some guy I work with gave me an envelope with "we found your high school prom picture" written on it.  Inside the envelope was the geico ad with the white gremlin!
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2008, 12:53:59 AM »
Doesn't the Comic Book Guy on the Simpson's drive a Gremlin?
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