re: Full Throttle, Gremlin vs. Pacer

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I missed the show, sounds like they attained exactly what they wanted, make both cars look bad, I see it no differently
then the current reality shows, edit the crap out of them until the it fits the mold.

Maybe we should enlist Chip Foost to have his way with a Gremlin, now that would be a show.

I volunteer mine as a willing participant.

Kim Bueler
'75 Gremlin X  360 V8


> Finally showed on The Dish tonight.
>
> What crap! I don't usually get so AMC-defensive, all-riled-up
> at the Ford-or-Chevy? people, but what a bunch of blithering
> idiots.  A terrible show! They said "ugly" probably 100 times;
> I can deal with that. Everyone laughing at the funny gremlin,
> I can deal with that. Openly insulting Teague, multiple times,
> well he's not around to worry about it. Complaining that a '76
> with a smog-strangulated 90hp six is "slow", OK; not mentioning
> the one with the (admittedly smogg-y) V8 is faster, OK.
>
> But the F-ing dim-witted child (who also whined "I hate wiring"
> -- what a jerk, he and his business getting a free plug on
> national TV, and he whines about a little wiring problem,
> boo-f-ing-hoo) PRIED THE GODDAMN GREMLIN DASH CENTER OUT WITH
> A SCREWDRIVER, stuck the guage cluster in the hole where there
> was an A/C vent, left the wires running down the front, visible,
> and ! tore off the entire top dashpad !
>
> And the best they could pull off, with a 258, 4bbl, headers
> and Clifford or Edelbrock intake, and nitrous for sh*t's sake,
> was 18 secs? I think my Rambler will do that.
>
> I guess we have to maintain the Order of Automotive Things (Ford
> or Chevy? The world waits with bated breath) no matter what.
>
> I thought I had low expectations, but sheesh.
>

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