Back III

["Mahoney, John" <JMahoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Back III

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to paint them was there are no local chrome plating shops in the area
around N.Y. City. The next reason was the price of shipping to a place
over 1000 miles away and not knowing what the end product would look
like
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“Doc” (why the “-”?) could research a firm with branches in Stratford CT and Batavia NY --- neither located “over 1000 miles away” --- on the web

http://www.uschrome.com/

or, unless Buffalo was moved to somewhere “over 1000 miles away” while I was “over 2000 [additional] miles away,” could contact this firm there.

http://www.custom-chrome.com/american/

How about black chrome bumpers on an orange AMC for Happy Halloween?

He will refinish his bumpers however he wants to.  It’s his “Hornet.”

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painting the bumpers would make it almost like a 77 AMX without the Targa bar.
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Which, on Hornet or Concord hatchbacks, might be a good thing?

Or was foam-on-glass basket-handle overlay a spiffy execution?

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I don't have to tell you that the AMX can all but be recreated using a Spirit body. I'd love to see a 68-69 AMX nose grafted onto a Spirit -

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An eerily-original-looking 96” AMX was proposed (in 1979) for 1982, and

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Not much can be easily done with the rear, but maybe some
window inserts to change the look a bit would be nice.
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in one version, it had AMX circles on its [metal] filler-paneled sails.

Alternate versions retained the Spirit “C-pillar” side opening profile: one with longer window flushed-out over the B-post, one with ‘79 glass.

AMC-Renault couldn’t afford any but the cheapest -- then, not even that.  
 
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AMX/GT prototype, which looked very much like a Gremlin with AMX nose. That would have been easy for AMC to have built! I wonder why Teague didn't proto one of those for the AMC execs instead of putting a 71 hump fender nose on his two seater?  Would have been a bit more work to put the 71 nose on a Gremlin, but nothing a good shop couldn't do in a week.

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He didn’t because a) Gremlin [ostensibly] had four seats, b) Javelin’s front clip was not cheaply narrowed, and c) AMX needed fast departure: from its rear roof angle --- as well as from performance off-the-line.

And AMC also built “muscular” Gremlins: as in “X,” “GT,” and “5 Litre.”

http://www.wps.com/AMC/Gremlin-graphics/5litre-v8.JPG

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There are very few actual grays (greys) out there; I'm looking
for a "light battleship gray" a true neutral. Few cars ever
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Also in the Audi family (q.v. Keleigh…) is a silver and gray two-tone:

http://tinyurl.com/aa5bn

One’s metallic, one isn’t: both seem samples for Tom’s [$1.2M] Hornet.

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I'm gonna paint it gray on TOP and white on BOTTOM. I fully realize this
is upside down from tradition, but it works because there is so little
"up" above the beltline. See these photos:

http://www.wps.com/temp/hornet-side-gray-up.jpg
http://www.wps.com/temp/hornet-side-white-up.jpg
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In, dare we say, a classic coach [LeBaron] builder fashion

http://www.supercars.net/servlets/PW/garagePics/Duesey/91car1.jpg

(While it’s a duesie, it’s not a “Duesey” --- it’s a Marmon.  Idiots?!) 

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I gotta say Of the two I prefer the grey on the bottom.
My personal opinion. The allover grey with an SC stripe sounded awesome.
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Mark might remember how to tie a good bow,

http://tinyurl.com/d853u

but even the best bow ties were not all Bel:

http://www.chevynomadclub.com/images/Members%20Cars/cleaver_c_rr.jpg

some [150] of them were tied “upside down!”

http://www.yesterdayschevrolet.com/Postcards/56-150-4DoorSedan.gif

Finally, if you managed to ignore the Panther Daytona recently, Teague, himself, also did a few dark-over-light painted -production- vehicles. 

http://tinyurl.com/7tlr7

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THere's another variation that looks good on our slab-sided 60's cars:

http://www.wps.com/temp/hornet-side-white-up-down.jpg

Looks like SC/Rambler! A bit of American heritage visible with this...
:-) Now that's a 60's look, or what?
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Or what.  It’s also a ‘30s look

http://www.cusslermuseum.com/Pictures/pan2x.jpg

(note that paint on Clive’s P-A

http://www.metroccca.org/29StutzHibbM8Marano.jpg

discount fenders and running boards,

http://www.thoroughbred-cars.com/cars/USA/Stutz/images/1931.jpg

then imagine the green were gray and the cream were white.  Same?)

and that look was just seen in AZ too.  Look for the ’34 Packard at:

http://info.detnews.com/joyrides/story/index.cfm?id=598

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I wish tires came in colors. I've seen some red tread stripes on
Japanese import cars (I mean cars physically transported from Japan; how
they get away with this I don't know) but that's all.
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AFA fact, think Maple Leaf before Acer Palmatum and count higher

http://www.bfgoodrichtires.ca/bfgapp/catalog/tires/scorcherta.jsp 

http://tinyurl.com/c93kf

(unless you want to smell more than rubber, or burnout in Korea)

http://tinyurl.com/bv5hr