{"id":1860,"date":"2009-05-22T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/22\/2009-5-22-it-only-took-40-years-to-lose-the-plot-html\/"},"modified":"2009-05-22T04:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T04:08:00","slug":"2009-5-22-it-only-took-40-years-to-lose-the-plot-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/2009-5-22-it-only-took-40-years-to-lose-the-plot-html\/","title":{"rendered":"It Only Took 40 Years To Lose The Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Why are the Big 3 Detroit automakers in such dire straights? It&#8217;s marketing, of course. In 1967 American Motors was sitting pretty (<i>oh, that&#8217;s debatable, isn&#8217;t it? &#8211; ed<\/i> Leave the Matador coupe out of it.) and having fun. How much fun? This much&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldcarmanualproject.com\/brochures\/AMC\/1967\/Rambler\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/Rebel_small.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1967 Rebel, isn't it?\" \/><\/a><br \/>Sure, it&#8217;s a lovely car, but what&#8217;s happening in the background?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldcarmanualproject.com\/brochures\/AMC\/1967\/Rambler\/pages\/1967DualAmericanRebel003M_jpg.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/amc_goofballs.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Yeah, that'll sell it.\" \/><\/a><br \/>Like a rock? Not really. Dodge boys have more fun? Not likely. Would you really rather drive a Buick? Please. Certainly not your father&#8217;s Oldsmobile. Can you see Government Motors or Fiatsler (Chryslat?) doing something like this? Wait, doesn&#8217;t Chrysler own the AMC intellectual property assets?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Why are the Big 3 Detroit automakers in such dire straights? It&#8217;s marketing, of course. In 1967 American Motors was sitting pretty (oh, that&#8217;s debatable, isn&#8217;t it? &#8211; ed Leave the Matador coupe out of it.) and having fun. How much fun? This much&#8230; Sure, it&#8217;s a lovely car, but what&#8217;s happening in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/2009-5-22-it-only-took-40-years-to-lose-the-plot-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It Only Took 40 Years To Lose The Plot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,36],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cars","tag-this-amazing-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}