Re: [Amc-list] caspers cancer (was wwyd??)

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Funny my Ambassador has big holes under the sill plates, but they are rust...

Actually the rockers are solid as new. One of the few places that did not get assaulted, or salted?

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
" I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens! "

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> >    I've never seen a 62 apart and close up, so I don't really know what it 
> should or should not have done or what rust is a structural issue. I would have 
> loved to got that car Jerjan offered up, but can't retrieve such a thing. I like 
> the looks of the 62 and maybe someday I'll stumble over a nice one. Maybe not.
> 
> I miss my 62 Ambassador 400. I know this is almost crazy, but if you 
> find a 62 Ambo 400 that has small holes cut into the rockers, under the 
> aluminum sill trim panels, that was mine :-)
> 
> I mention that because when I got it (this was like 1974...) it was a 
> rust-free Colorado car, and I lived on Cape Cod... I took the front 
> fenders off, cut access holes (small) in the sills, flushed them clean 
> with a hose, opened the drains, then gooped everything I could reach, 
> inside and out, with aerosol Heavy Gear Lube and some waxy stuff (in a 
> pale green can... still picture it) used aboard ships. I wonder if all 
> that stuff lasted. It was originally pea green (two tone?), I repainted 
> it white with red. Pushbutton auto, PS, PB, no AC...
> 
> There weren't that many 62 Ambassador 400's...
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