"Well, I never said that I could make sense of it. I don't know the complete ins and outs of them, so facts like that are sort of lost to me," I concede. "AMC did their own unique thing for most of their existence – sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't. Chrysler bought them in the late 1980s solely for the Jeep division, which AMC had acquired in 1969 from what had been a merger between Willys and Kaiser-Frazer in the '50s. There's a lot of misfits no one remembers in the American automotive landscape."