[AMC-List] Blasphemy

[jackbarncord@xxxxxxx]

Here's my two coppers.

If you are going to transplant a brand X drive train into your AMC, GM, Ford, Mopar or whatever, you need to be prepared for a miriad of responses.  Everyone will have an opinion spanning the full range from total approval to total disapproval.  The thing to keep in mind is that these are opinions.  I don't think anyone is going to introduce a bill at the state of federal level to stop freedom of drive train selection, are they?

As for me, wakling down a line of cars with the hoods open, if I see something under the hood that screams, "I don't belong here." I don't get vocal, I just don't see what the owner saw in making the transplant.  I may have a reaction from really not liking the car to a peeked interest of, "How did they do that!"  However, for me the bottom line is I, personnally, would like to see something close to what is suppose to be under that hood, under that hood.  The transplant cars automatically fall into a different catigory for me.  Yeah, I'm sorry to see an AMC with nothing more imaginative than a small block Chevy in there and that may be where AMC fans find fault.  For the most part, we're a different breed and anybody can use a SBC for an easy, inexpensive drive train.  So that just goes agianst the AMC breed's need to be different.

Did I mention that we may be confusing opinion with directives on drive train selection?  It is your choice to use whatever you want to power your car just be prepared(and forewarned).  If some one decides to look down their nose at your car, their going to do it and there is no need to feel it's a personal attack.  Maybe you used the wrong fasteners to afix the period correct badge to the front fender or maybe you like the fender mounted turnsignal indicators like Mopar used for years, I do..... :-) Or it could be the brand X power plant.

I belong to a motorcycle rights organization, No, it's not a gang.  Most of the guys ride Harley-Davidson, I ride a Honda.  They don't treat me any different than the other guys, but they don't like and wouldn't buy a Honda motorcycle.  (Here comes a dig)  I just like to get where I'm going and my Shadow has never failed me with 34,000 care free miles so far.  Here is where it gets spooky.  The HD guys will look down their noses at other HD guys because they replace their worn out HD motor with a RevTech brand motor.  A more socially acceptable choice is S&S.  Don't ask me why....  I don't get into those conversations.

I may be getting in too deep here so I'll hop down and back away slow like, okay? 

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