re: Full Throttle, Gremlin vs. Pacer

["Mark Price" <mprice@xxxxxxxxxx>]

For perfect Gremlin to use in this type show go to Ebay and check out the 401 Gremlin under AMC. I want it! Exactly what I would have built!
Mark Price





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Date:  Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:12:12 -0500

>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.
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>Maybe we should enlist Chip Foost to have his way with a Gremlin, now that would be a show.
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>I volunteer mine as a willing participant.
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>Kim Bueler
>'75 Gremlin X  360 V8
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>> Finally showed on The Dish tonight.
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>> 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.
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>> 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 !
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>> 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.
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>> I guess we have to maintain the Order of Automotive Things (Ford
>> or Chevy? The world waits with bated breath) no matter what.
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>> I thought I had low expectations, but sheesh.
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