Re: [AMC-list] nice 74 amc hornet spoortabout in auction no reserve

[Jack Dale <mercendarian@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Eddie:  You don't tell us the engine/transmission/does it have AC.  And you should try to beg, borrow, "steal(borrow with INTENT to return, after copying the parts!)", Gucci-parts, because that could add as much/more than what it would cost to do, and Ensure that your highest price was reached at auction.  It's a color that some Gucci-sportabouts came in.  I've seen several, and they are AWESOME.  You'd need seat-covers, door panels, and the emblem which was on the front fenders mid-way between the leading edge of the front door and the rear of the front wheelwell.  The Gucci emblem could be done as a 3-D replication, or as a sand-cast of pot-medal, painting/enameling & plating it once it cools, and because they were straight-stripes of various colors, an upholstry shop COULD "reproduce" the Gucci-striping, on new/old seat bottoms & door panels.   You'd SAY, maybe, its a HERESY to take a Non-Gucci and make it a Gucci--it wouldn't match the
 trim code on the door.  I don't know if the trim would say "spec" for special, or what.  I...would say that I knew of a guy that wanted one, and when another one got wrecked, he changed-out the interior/emblems, and I would excuse it, because people could THEN SEE how COOL AMC cars could Be, back in the day.  I don't see it as any different than some of these Classic-owners taking a sedan body off of a Pierce-Arrow or Packard and putting on a long-wheelbase roadster-boat-tail body, or other exotic.   I didn't see the interior from the pictures, and often, if the interior isn't shown, it's damaged or simply "tired" and needing a "redo."  I hope this helps.   Oh yeah, they didn't offer the Gucci-Sportabout in '74, but they did in '72-73, and should have in '74, imo.

 

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 From: Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: baadassGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:40 PM
Subject: [AMC-list] nice 74 amc hornet spoortabout in auction no reserve
  
My beautiful all original 1973 AMC Hornet Sportabout station wagon will be sold at a no reserve auction this Sunday, Feb 24th at McCormick's classic car auction in Palm Springs, CA. Check my car out here: http://www.classic-carauction.com/auction_details.cfm?pagesubid=37&auctionid=5796 Tom Hamilton  tommgb2001@xxxxxxxxx    818-551-1872

not mine above but looks like a clean car.
Eddie Stakes
Planet Houston AMX
713.464.8825 days
eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.planethoustonamx.com/ 
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