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About the AMX Files
Shameless Self-Promotion Department:The "Web Watch" column in the July 1998 issue of Car Craft features the AMX Files, praising it as "one of the finest enthusiast-run Web communities around." Click here for the full text.This is the site's second write-up in Car Craft. Back in August 1996 they wrote, "where the AMC fanaticism meets high technology... There may not be a lot of AMC enthusiasts, but The AMX Files is a good example for all the Ford, GM and Mopar webcrafters to follow." Many thanks to all the AMC List members and other contributors who have made the AMX Files something to be proud of. |
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The AMX Files began as a tribute to my '68 AMX, which I affectionately (and accurately) call "the beast". The date on which the page was started is lost to history, but it was shortly after I purchased the car in December 1994. It was the first page on the Internet devoted to the AMX or AMC in any way. Things have changed in a couple years! The site started out on my PC at work as a single page that basically went like this: "I think my AMX is cool because..." (That page hasn't changed much in the last two years, actually). Soon after I decided to make the site more serious and the AMX Files started taking shape. The page grew with contributions from fellow AMX-Philes, stuff I looked up in books, materials I got in the mail from vendors like Eddie Stakes, and lots of web surfing. After a few frustrating months of trying to make a web server run reliably under Windows 3.1, I gave up and signed up with World Web. They were terrific (and never complained that the site was generating a lot of traffic for a non-commercial customer), but when I decided to get my own domain name for the site it was time to move on. Starting in December 1996 the AMX Files became www.amxfiles.com, hosted by DC-AdNet.
The AMC-List, now under the guidance of
Colin Brodsky,
got started in March or April 1995,
basically because it was easier for me to ask my desperate technical
questions on a mailing list than to manually keep track of all the addresses
I'd been collecting. Members of the list have provided much of the
content of the AMX Files, and they're the reason why I keep it up. | |
| More Recognition: PC Computing named the "AM-X Files" [sic] to its 1001 Best Web Sites list a couple of years ago. Some of the web directories have had nice things to say about the site, including Magellan, which gives the site a rather odd review. Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge Central (my favorite Chrysler site) named the AMX Files one of the "Top 5% of Mopar Sites." Not all AMC fans feel as I do, but I'm proud to be part of the Mopar family. | 
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