Car Show at Grissom

8 Week of Aug. 12, 2015 MC WEEKLY Photos by Kelly Lafferty Gerber | MC Weekly designer Bill Reddig. “I’ve had AMCs for a long “What’s kind of strange is he time. My first car was a Ram- is known for the luggage bler station wagon. I saw this rack,” said Harrington. car at a car show and I wanted American Motors was it,” he said of the Marlin. formed in 1954 from the “I’ve had the Marlin for 10 Car show merger of Hudson Motors and years now. I liked it because Nash-Kelvinator. the front end looked like my Harrington said Reddig is station wagon. It’s a fun car to credited with coming up with drive. A lot of people think the Rambler station wagon’s Chevy made the first 327, but at Grissom trademark roof dip. it was AMC. It runs really The show featured 38 cars, well.” mostly AMCs, including the As an AMC guy, Kent Whit- AMX, Eagle, Rambler, Marlin, ton of Warsaw was amazed at Javelin, Spirit, Gremlin, Am- some of the vintage AMCs Vintage AMC’s on display at event bassador, Matador and Con- like O’Hern’s Marlin. cord. “You don’t see too many of BY MIKE FLETCHER Car Show Saturday at Gris- “There’s people from all AMCs is what brings car en- “It’s nice to see a few Hud- these around,” Whitton said MC WEEKLY som Air Reserve Base’s Air over who have different sto- thusiasts and AMC owners sons out here too,” said Har- admiring the Marlin. Museum. ries.” out to the car shows, said rington. “My first car was a ’47 GRISSOM AIR RESERVE A member of the Hoosier Brian Parish of Churubusco Todd Harrington, president of “The Hudson and Nash Nash,” he said. BASE – As a postal worker in AMC Club, Frauhiger show- sat back and talked shop with the Hoosier AMC Club. formed AMC and then “I found it in southern Ore- Bluffton, Kent Frauhiger drove cased his 1987 AMC Eagle, Frauhiger next to Parish’s “Our regional meetings are Chrysler bought AMC out in gon sitting in a shed and the his AMC Eagle on his routes the last model made by AMC 1970 black AMX. held in different cities each 1987. There’s a lot of history engine was frozen. Me and my delivering the mail daily. before it was bought out by “I bought it back in 1987 off year to give members a and great people out here.” dad went out there and towed After that, he fell in love Chrysler. a friend. His wife gave it to chance to attend,” he said. Across the grass, Pat O’Hern it back through the deserts of with the small four-wheel “Chrysler just wanted the him for their anniversary,” “A lot of members are from of Hartford City polished up Nevada and through the Salt drive compact car. Jeep name back then,” he said. Parish said. different areas and different his vintage 1965 AMC Marlin Flats in Utah. “I drove an AMC Eagle for Frauhiger travels all over as “After 10 years, it only had backgrounds,” he said of the equipped with a 327-cu- “I don’t have a vintage AMC 22 years of being a mail car- part of the American Motors 50 miles on it. I restored it and group’s 60 members. bic-inch AMC V-8. yet,” he said. “I used to have rier and I’ve had one ever Owners Association, an inter- got it back on the road in The show’s premier award “They only made the Mar- Chevy convertibles and then I since,” Frauhiger said at the national club, to meet other 1992.” — the Bill Reddig Memorial lins for three years from 1965 bought a [Pontiac] Fiero, but I Second Annual Hoosier AMC AMC owners and swap stories. The love for the vintage Award — is named after AMC to 1967,” O’Hern said. would like to get me an AMC.” Immediate Cash for Your OFFUTT DETAIL & TRIM Area’s Largest We Buy Locally PROFESSIONAL WINDOW TINTING Selection of Quality Owned & FULL SERVICE DETAIL SHOP HAND WASH AND WAX Vehicles! Quality Used Car or Truck Driven Cars 1228 E. MARKET ST PIN STRIPING & CUSTOM VINYL GRAPHICS TRIM AUTO UPHOLSTERY NO A Local Dealer You Can Trust AUCTION ALL PRICE 1201 E. Market Street • Logansport • 574-753-2487 RANGES 574-735-2222 CARS www.offuttmotorsales.com If you’re not at Offutt’s, you are at the wrong place. MGR JEFF FOREMAN .

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