On January 30, 2014, GAMCO Investors, Inc. sent notice to Rose Hoover, Secretary of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp notifying that it intends to nominate Michael I. German and James J. Abel for election to the Company's Board at the Company's 2014 annual meeting of shareholders. GAMCO Investors also stated that it is presenting a proposal to the Company for inclusion in the proxy and proxy statement for the Company's 2015 annual meeting of shareholders, requesting that the Company's Board undertake the necessary steps to declassify the Board to require that all directors stand for election annually. Further, GAMCO Investors said that if one or more of its nominees becomes a nominee for election as a director, that it plans to cast votes for the election of such individual or individuals with the shares over which it has voting authority.