BaldEagle told me a few weeks ago that I should join, so after thinking about it I decided it would be fun.
So I'll introduce myself, my name is Pam. I've loved Eagles since the 80's but never had one until we bought our brown one in January. I only got to drive it for 2 months before it was totaled - but it was a terrific car and my wonderful husband got it running amazingly well partly thanks to this forum!
It was funny driving it some days. I'd get stares, I finally got the "OMG IS THAT AN EAGLE!?!" stare down pat. Occasionally someone would honk at me at a stop light and tell me about so~n~so's Eagle that was a wonderful car and would never ever get stuck in ANYTHING. The funniest reaction I got though was at a grocery store. There was a woman that must've been around 30, I hadn't noticed her at first so I'm not sure if she dropped her grocery bag because she saw the car, or if it was coincidental. I noticed she was gathering her groceries up off the ground and staring at the car at the same time. It didn't dawn on me that she was staring at the car (the car was still pretty new to me at the time as were the reactions to it), so being the kind of person I am - I proceeded to stare back at her until she noticed there was someone actually IN the car. When she saw me staring back at her she mouthed very exaggeratedly "NICE CAR", I said thank you!
After our Eagle was totaled I took a Saturday and called about 100 car lots in the Portland metro area to see if they had an Eagle hiding under a bush in the back lot somewhere that was waiting to go home with someone. Those phone calls involved a lot of laughter from the dealer, the laughter was usually followed up with, why do you want an Eagle I have a <insert modern 4 wheel drive/all wheel drive vehicle here> and I would say no, I only want an Eagle. Several phone calls ended in my explaining what the heck an AMC Eagle was (those were sad). And I had a couple of phone calls that mentioned how much they wished they had an Eagle on the lot and one gentleman that had sold cars for 30 years and had Eagles on his lot that were new in the 80's and he loved them.
So here I am.
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