Re: [AMC-list] 61-63, 64-65 American parts--don't scrap them.

[Jack Dale <mercendarian@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Frank:  Had you considered, if they go to scrap, un-parted, Donating one or both to a school shop situation?   With a LOT of students (15-30 per class), you have a lot of labor to fix-rusty areas (by cutting-out the rusty panels, and "braking" the part, if they can't be gotten NOS.   Either car is possibly a 25 mpg car with fuel injection.   They could sand-cast & machine an aluminum-head for the block that doesn't have one.  You should get a tax-break for the donation, and the car should will be completely refurbished, auctioned and put on the road, as a restored driver!   Total win-win-win.  You could start a business around having a DOHC head "3-D"ed from blueprints.   From that business, you could ask for, online, FUNDING,   If you were Not "3-D"-ing, you could find a Kawasaki Voyager head from a 1300cc liquid-cooled(inline 6!), motorcycle, and if the cylinders wouldn't fit the head-spacing, just cut the head into five pieces,
 make an exact spacing "fit", clamp the parts up, and weld them together, just as TVR did with their 350Hp 4Liter straight 6, when they used one-and-a-half 750cc DOHC Suzuki 4-cylinder motorcycle heads, modified, to top the 4Liter block that had been OHV before.   You would be a HERO to every AMC-er, and maybe start a Revenue-(MONEY!)-$tream, because YOU were "smart" enough to do what AMC Should have done, and yet was too stupid to do, becoming an "American BMW!"   Actually, I'll bet Kenosha DID have a development, alloy, DOHC Hemi-head inline 6-head that never saw the light of day, for which the engineers should almost go to Hell for keeping from us, IDIOTS...and MORONS...that they were!   I understand that the "bean-counters" were the REAL "killers" of AMC, under the French Renault or not, but once the AMC engine engineers moved to Chrysler, it should have been released, but was it?   There must be a MILLION Jeeps still in use, that will
 need a new head/head-work at some point, so if you build it, they will come.  Also, I'll bet the Argentine ex-Willys(IKA) SOHC head which found itself on the AMC 3.8L (232cu in) block "Torino" which Juan Fango and many others successfully raced, sometimes in Europe, would fit your 196s.   The accountants were to blame, because they cheapened the product to where the only buyers available were Wisconsin farmers.   You'll notice Romney's "worth" about 15million, so those guys(--his Father ran AMC for a while, recovering it, to be lost by others later) did "OK" while an American firm went down the tube, discarded by the French.   I'll bet Kenosha has NOT replaced the thousands of jobs lost, and the history discarded, when the Nash plant was bulldozed.   Any drooling-FOOL can scrap a car.  An enthusiast can SAVE many, and I hand the Torch to You, Frank, --don't let History down, utilize even ONE of my ideas,--ideas you have probably earlier have
 thought of, yourself, before this rant.  Frank, I will be Praying for you're doing one of these suggestions, --in the Holy Name of Jesus, by the Precious Blood of Jesus, and by the Powers and Promises of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen!   You don't have to be a "believer", to do one of my/your suggestions, but it can't hurt and WILL help, mark my words.

 

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 From: Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: AMC-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 5:49 PM
Subject: [AMC-list] 61-63, 64-65 American parts
  

I've got a couple 65 Americans (one 440 wagon, one 220 two door sedan) 
that I'm going to part out. The two door could be saved, needs floor and 
a right front fender. The wagon has some front sill, cowl, and rocker 
rust. Would be a bit of work to save it.

Also have a 62 American four door and a 62 two door.

If someone wants a whole car give me a call -- can have them for about 
scrap price. Near the end of the summer if they are still there that's 
where they will go.

I will part out, but at reasonable prices plus shipping. All glass is 
good (think I have one good 61-63 windshield), front fenders, other body 
and mechanical parts. The 65 two door has a flat-head six with full flow 
oil pump. It was running when parked, isn't stuck is all I can say now. 
No other full engine -- have a 196 OHV block (not full flow pump), but 
no head.

If anyone needs anything let me know!

-- 
Frank Swygert
Editor - American Motors Cars Magazine
www.amc-mag.com

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