Re: [AMC-list] What Did You Do on Your AMC this weekend?

[Bruce Griffis <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh yeah. I buckled up before putting it in first.  :-)

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Bruce Griffis <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rambler stuff this weekend?
>
> Dusted the snow off.
> Popped the hood.
> Pulled off the air cleaner.
> Gave it a shot of starting fluid.
> Got in.
> Turned the key.
> Rolled the driver's side window down.
> Drove.
>
> I was driving my wife's Highlander for errands, then remembered that
> the original owner had called the car "Traveller". Not just after a
> southern horse some hundred and forty five years ago or so, but
> because when everything else was parked - her and her family piled
> into the Rambler and headed out for the North Georgia mountains. If
> the roads were snowy or icy, they put the chains on. She didn't baby
> it at all, and it held up fine (except for being parked for 12
> years!). I'm not going to baby it, either.
>
> Heck, I have the chains it came with. Didn't put 'em on as the roads
> are finally okay almost everywhere. But I didn't park it. I wandered
> off and ran errands in it. I think it might be cool to dig out the
> chains, pop 'em in a box and put 'em in the trunk again.
>
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