I have recently obtained my own original copy of the 1969 Rebel Raider advertisement like Scott's. It's in a larger Life Magazine-style format, too big to fit on an average scanner, which is the reason Scott originally posted the ad in two pieces. Something like 10.25x15.5 or close to it.
I have had this oversized ad professionally scanned, at high-resolution. This will soon be available as a 17.5 x 22.5 poster, for sale to help support The AMC Heritage Forum and its project to establish an AMC Dealership Museum. They will be much larger than the original advertisement.
Price will be less than ten dollars, shipping extra. This is because they are not the full poster-sized 18x24, which would drive the production cost alone to near 20 bucks apiece. They will be on glossy paper, unlike the original advertisement.
They will be marked with a small disclaimer in an undisclosed location on the print, to identify them as a reproduction, not original, to avoid later fraudulent sales as original literature. They will be identified as one of a limited series. Possibly, I could number them by hand as they go out to show they are from the limited series.
There will be sufficient margin space to have them framed properly.
What I want to do is issue a limited, and I mean
limited, first run each time I do a poster, say 25 to 50 posters. No more just like them.
After that, I want to offer the same poster with a different disclaimer, possibly without the ad text or something, as a premium for paying members to the forum. It would be identified on the poster as being for Members of The AMC Heritage Forum.
In some cases, a third, "volume version" with more changes might be offered for sale to the public. It will be identified on the poster as for public consumption and not limited. For a lot of possible posters, there will be no generally available public one, other than the limited series.
I am thinking that the first three posters issued would be included with premium membership, with differences from the aforementioned limited runs.
The three posters would be the Rebel Raider for the first one, I am thinking of the 1981 AMX Turbo flyer as a second one,
and for the third one, I felt I might host a poll to see what the AMC Public would like to see. I'd like to do an old-time advertisement of some kind, maybe something like the gorgeous paintings inside the 1950s Brochures. Or, maybe like an old bicycle ad, or a 1905 Rambler magazine ad or something like that.
I am just posting this to gauge interest, and to see if it's worth ordering the quantity it would take to get them under 10 bucks retail. The Raider and AMX Turbo big scans are now being "cleaned up" (by me) to make them presentable at a huge size.
Let me know here if you are interested. This is a temporary portion of this thread, and once the posters are available, I will be posting polls and threads separately under the Dealership Museum board. At that time this post and any replies made specifically to this poster question will be removed from this thread and placed over there, also.
-mike
