Re: {FORGED?} Re: my 1970 Hornet project

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 AMC74Hornet@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The interior was toast with parts broken, missing
> and just to far gone to repair. The door panels were so water
> damaged the crubled when I removed them. There are no AMC's in any
> yards in the area around N.Y. City so I collected plastic interior
> parts from all over the country. It took me over a year to reair,
> collect and refinish all the parts.

Sounds familiar! I've got pieces installed that have broken ends;
it's all I could find, so I'm using them until better comes along.

> also had some small areas of the sail panels that the surface
> plastic had become powdery like yours. A wire brush and a good
> cleaning and they look !   fine.

Exactly my experience.

> I'll be glad when tha tan baby poop interior with
> the leisure suit seat inserts is gone.

Now there you go, slagging leisure suits again :-)

Seriously, that crappy tan and the crappy medium blue are the
worst colors AMC ever used, in my opinion. Not a bad color to run

SEM over though :-)