Re: Full Throttle, Gremlin vs. Pacer

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: Sounds like the set the rear brakes to drag or something. My old '75 
Pacer with a broken rocker would run close to 18 seconds in the 1/4 on 5 
cylinders! (3 speed floor shift) IF the Pacer or Gremlin had a 232 with auto 
and 2.37 gears, it would be a slow runner.


From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
To: AMC List <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Full Throttle, Gremlin vs. Pacer
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412200033540.10172@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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.