Don’t think those with delightfully eclectic automotive tastes live only in urban or suburban environments. Such traits are universal, evidenced by these two AMC Eagles found in rural Missouri.
Having two of them is likely fruitful – one for working around the property and the other for going to town. Or maybe they are a his-and-hers combination. Either way, they are great, particularly in brown.
Found June 2014 between Loose Creek and Frankenstein, Missouri
Ahhh, an Eagle sanctuary. The one at the rear is losing its vinyl roof – does this make it a bald Eagle?
Thanks for putting your Eagle eye to work for us!
JP, (and this is off-topic, of course), as a native Spanish speaker and user of English only in my professional activity and for reading just about anything, I can’t expect to have anywhere near your dexterity with words. Then again, I can’t help it but attribute to your “lawyership” those one-liners you pull every other day.
My my awful addiction to wordplay causes great suffering for me as well as for than for those of you exposed to it. Well, maybe readers suffer more.
If your situation is like mine, it’s your spouse and kids who suffer the most.
AMC could’ve really improved the Concord/Eagle’s looks if they could get the six-window styling to work without a vinyl top…maybe a piece of plastic trim that would carry the drip rail aft of it?
The few tintop fleet sedans – a few agencies, not just Kenosha, used Concord cop cars – had the old Hornet four-window look.
You do know that all 1978-1979 Concord four doors had the four-window look?
I really liked the extra window in these. For not much money, it gave it a new look, a better look (IMO), a more trendy look (opera windows!), and better outward visibility.
I don’t know what’s more interesting, two brown Eagles, or the intersection of Ford, Farmall and John Deere Roads, or the location “between Loose Creek and Frankenstein”. All of the above I guess.
I find the satellite dish mounted on the back of the basketball hoop pole fascinating myself…
That’s so common I hadn’t even noticed. It’s a practical way to do it.
Great finds! Given this was 6 years ago, lets hope both Eagles are still around.
Like GM’s freshening of the B body greenhouses in ’75 and ’76, with the addition of the C pillar windows, I thought this similar widow treatment really improved the looks of the Concord/Eagle 4 door sedans. I think AMC added these windows around 1980, really modernizing their looks. And helping somewhat to shake their Hornet styling roots.
Without that C pillar window improvement, the early Concords looked like tired old Hornets.
Ford did this too, adding optional C pillar windows when they facelifted the Torino to turn it into the LTD II. Base models without the new windows look much more Torino-like.
I just like that these were found near Frankenstein, Missouri. The Eagle was sort of an automotive “Frankenstein” of sorts, with the AMC car body over the Jeep 4WD machinery.
Something told me several would take notice of that particular town. A neat little place, but one you have to be heading there to get there – you won’t just stumble upon it.
Well, it is said that Eagles mate for life. So maybe if you check back in the Spring you’ll find they produced a Kammback…
That’s the Spirit! 🙂
One a daily driver and another a backup, even parts car perhaps?
The Eagle closest to the garage looks exactly like my brother’s 1983 Eagle that he had for about 17 years. That car was built like a tank and was great for him and his wife, as her family lived out in the country and the AWD capability was rather handy.
Nice to see that someone is a fan!
People who like these tend to really like them. I had a 1982 wagon, fully loaded, for several thousand miles. It combined diabolical fuel economy with big slow performance and handled like a pig on roller skates. It also could barely pull off a 20 mile jaunt without incident.
I thought I’d never find a buyer but lo and behold: our town dog catcher arrived in a faded brown wagon and had two more at home. The look on his wife’s face said everything. We made a cash deal and I saw it around town for years, until I ran into it many years later in our local scrapper.
They must have loved it and.im glad they did. As they say, “there’s a butt for every seat”.
I love Eagles. Everytime one turns up, I miss out on it. I test drove a new 82 SX4, decided against it, and good thing too, because the economy sucked then, and I got laid off. Would have had my new car repo’d. Haven’t had one turn up for sale around here lately, getting rare.
Reminds me of driving around Kenosha in the 1980’s.
I don’t think many Renault Alliances (Appliances) are still on the road.