69 AMX sold

["Dan Curtis" <d.curtis@xxxxxxx>]

To those of you who responded to my earlier post on the very very nice 69
AMX that I was considering selling, thanks for your response.  On Saturday,
a fellow from Austin Texas came Phoenix to look at the car and when he got
here, he was thrilled with what he saw and hauled the car away on a U-Haul
trailer back to Texas.  As it turned out, I ended up giving him a few
additional spare pieces as well as all of the replacement or new parts that
I had mentioned in a prior post so he ended up with a great deal overall.

Because this car was such a rare combination of an original 390 Go Pack
automatic with disk brakes setup, a 3:15 axle ratio and factory AC, tilt
wheel, AM/FM and leather, he was highly interested in the car before ever
seeing it.  As I mentioned in the post, it has a complete new but
uninstalled Legendary interior, new carpets and very nice used but in great
condition replacement interior hardware parts so once he realized it was
also an actual 81K mile car with a fresh engine and tranny with a decent
newer paint job that only had one small round area of about 2 inches in the
lower passenger's quarter in need of body repair, he jumped at the car and
is really excited about having it at my asking price of $8500.

Although I am sad to see this one go, I am very excited about the 51K
original 68 390 4 speed AMX that I bought in Denver early last week. The car
was nice enough that I was able to jump in it and drive it home in a
straight 14 hours trip from Denver to Phoenix Monday night into Tuesday
after a quick oil change and new plugs wires.  1000 miles at mostly 80 MPH
at 12 MPG turned out to be a pretty costly trip for gas but it was a blast
to drive the new car on that trip right out of the chute.

Although the new AMX currently has a pretty strong 72 or later 360 in it, I
have a fresh and never run balanced and blueprinted 68/69 390 with the head
bolt holes bored and tapped to accept the 1/2 head bolts that are needed for
the better flowing heads.  If I want to keep it very close to stock, I can
alternatively use the original rectangle port heads that have the head bolt
holes machined out along with a fresh valve job when the engine was rebuilt.
With a 9.6-9.8 final compression ratio from the new pistons being of forged
dished design, this engine should run fine on the Phoenix area 91 octane gas
so I am looking forward to swapping out the current motor.

So the bottom line is that good unmolested cars are starting to bring much
better prices than they did just a few short years ago so keep them stock if
you can.  The car I just sold was still in need of final interior reassembly
as well as some final engine tuning and minor body work but still brought
$8500.  The buyer got a good car at a reasonable price and I got back all of
my expenses for the initial purchase plus the cost of all the new parts and
interior pieces I had gotten for the car so we were both happy with the
deal.

Best Regards,
Dan Curtis
Cell 602 317 2018
d.curtis@xxxxxxx