Re: [Amc-list] strut rods

[Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>]

DUH!! I got you confused with someone else too!! Still, same applies, you just have the better two piece bushings and adjustable strut rods. 

Nice job on the blog! I do have a couple facts for you though...

you have:
"Granted, AMC used GM steering columns starting in the late 1970s or
early 1980s, and AMC used Pontiac and VW/Audi/Porsche four-cylinders
until it had developed its own four-banger, but just about everything
else on an AMC was designed and built specifically for AMC products."

AMC bought what they could buy cheaper than they could make. Mainly things that took a lot of R&D money but really weren't all that special. Like steering columns. They bought steering columns from an outside source since 1960 (Ainsworth shifter column, also used a Douglas starting in 61 -- could be either from 61-65; started using GM columns in 65 with the "Adjust-o-Tilt", I believe all were GM starting in 66 or 67). The 2.0L Audi/VW four was used only from 77-79. It was assembled in the US with some US parts and final machining, but the major castings came from Germany. Production never got up enough to move the casting equipment over here -- even a Gremlin was under powered with the 2.0L, especially with auto trans and AC. In 1980 the GM 2.5L was used until 1984, when AMC introduced their own four (mainly for the XJ Cherokee). 

A few other parts were purchased, but the entire body and engine (except for electrics and carbs; and those two fours, 84-86 2.8L GM V-6 for the XJ, and the Packard V-8s used in 55-56 Hudson and Nash cars) were produced by AMC. Those two things are really what distinguishes one car make from another, no? 

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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:53:18 -0400
From: "Dan Strohl" <DStrohl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Tom-
1979 AMX (with '82 brakes). See
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/category/hemmings-editors/our-rides/p
roject-hmx/

-- 
Frank Swygert
Publisher, "American Motors Cars" 
Magazine (AMC)
For all AMC enthusiasts
http://farna.home.att.net/AMC.html
(free download available!)

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