Re: AMC modifying

[Jock J Jocewicz <namdra@xxxxxxxx>]

My personal feelings that if the NAMDRA members would ever agree to let
non-AMC powered vehicles to race at their AMC NATIONALS that they would
start off allowing Mopar powered AMC's to race because Chrysler did buy
out AMC.

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 3:03:21 -0400 <a1977amx@xxxxxxx> writes:
> I am currently building the New Mexico Crusher alert 72 Javelin 5.7 
> Hemi G machine. According to some on this list, I would have to find 
> a correct 304 and auto trans for this car to replace the 460 Ford 
> engine and C6 trans that were in the car when I got it. I would have 
> to spend about $20 grand finding all the correct parts to replace 
> all the missing and damaged parts a $500 junk yard comes with. Then 
> I would have a car probably worth about $5000 when I finished 
> "restoring it". No thanks. I would rather spend the $20 grand of my 
> own hard earned money making the car better then it ever was before 
> and driving the wheels off it without worrying about breaking 30 
> year old parts and not being able to find replacements while on a 
> road trip. I do have an AMC powered 77 AMX and I am in negotiations 
> to acquire a 78 6 cylinder AMX that may eventually get the spare AMC 
> 360 I now have. I want a car that has fuel injection and overdrive 
> for long trips to car shows and AMC did not make ei!
>  there. For the price of the aluminum Edlebrock heads and fuel 
> injection, I purchased a complete 2004 Hemi donar truck. I will 
> consider these aftermarket, non AMC parts for my next project, but 
> that still does not make it a true AMC motor anymore, does it? What 
> is the difference between me putting a later Dodge engine in a car 
> that Chrysler now owns the right to the name, and putting an AMC 401 
> in a Rambler or Nash. It is exactly the same thing. 
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