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Topics covered in this issue include:

    1: Electric AMCs discovered  in book...Pacer, Hornet, Amitron, Jeep...
              by Jerry Casper <gremlingts@xxxxxxxxx>
    2: fw: 69 Javelin cam eater (Nick Alfano...)
              by "BLAIN BOUTWELL" <boutwell@xxxxxxx>


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Message-ID: <20060301042347.91779.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:23:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Jerry Casper <gremlingts@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Electric AMCs discovered  in book...Pacer, Hornet, Amitron, Jeep...
To: AMC-List <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

 I was at the used book store today, and was glancing
at the small column of automobile books, and saw an
older one on electric cars. Hmm. Might be interesting.
So, thumbing thru it, I was glancing at all the
historical data accumlated in '79 on electric cars.
Guess what? AMC was well-represented. Under History, a
picture of the Amitron, and a lovely lady standing
with a cache of batteries in the foreground and
background, was shown. Never seen this particular
photo before. 
  Under Vehicles of Today ( ha! ha! ), was the EFP
Electric Hornet ( Electric Fuel Propulsion, Inc. ),
with Electricar emblazoned in the grille area. Says it
won the Electric Class of the Clean Air Car RAce in
1970. 20 hp motor, top speed of 79 mph. Weighed in at
5,500 lbs. Yowsa! 
 Next paragraph, E.V.A. ( Electric Vehicle Associates,
Inc of Cleveland, Ohio ) produced both a Pacer coupe
and a wagon Electric car. Called the " Change of
Pace", the wagon has a top speed of 55 mph, range of
35 miles per charge. 0 to 30 mph in 12 seconds. Curb
weight is 4,150 lbs. An EVA 15-kw traction motor gives
it the umph. The Coupe had " Ohio Department of
Transportation " on the side. Coupe was white, wagon
two tone ?, both had aluminum 5-spoke alloy wheels. 
 A "relative" of AMC, the Renault Le Car, was also
used as a conversion vehicle by C. H. Waterman
Industries. Was available to the public as a
production automobile. 
 In the Jeep area, the Post office contracted with AM
General for 350 Jeep-type electrics, most operating in
southern CA. Called the Electruc, had a 33 mph top
speed, and 20 mile range. Also 11 of these were sold
to AT & T, some in Indiana, Minnesota, and NJ. Says AM
General was the first major US company to produce
electric vehicles in significant numbers. 
  That about covers AMC content, the book is called
The Complete Book of Electric Vehicles by Sheldon R.
Shacket, copyright 1979, Domus Books
ISBN 0-89196-019-8 ( Paper )
            -033-3 ( cloth )I have this one

Just thought it neat to see some AMC electrics in
there. 4 of them, no less. :) 

Jerry 

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Jerry Casper , owner of 16 AMCs , including:

'78 Gremlin GT / '70 Javelin / '70 Hornet / '79 Pacer / '76 Matador coupe / 1 V-8 Spirit

'57 Chevy 210 4-door
'55 Chevy Suburban

Hobbies : scale model trains ( G, O-27, HO, TT, N ), Garden Railroading, slot cars ( all scales ), scale aircraft and rockets

Esoteric interests : Blimps and Dirigibles, UL Aircraft ( sub - amphibious ), rideable scale trains, weird science and engineering

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Message-ID: <410-2200633171458375@xxxxxxx>
From: "BLAIN BOUTWELL" <boutwell@xxxxxxx>
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: fw: 69 Javelin cam eater (Nick Alfano...)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 02:14:58 -0500

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Bruce 
I had the same problem on our Nash that;s running a 360. get a dail indicator & check your distributor for run our , the bottom bushing had fail on mine causing the cam gear to wear. 
Other things I did when putting it together for the 2nd time was a good used timing cover .new oil pump  ,the original gears that were in the motor that the timing cover came off of , new distributor.
1st re-gear lasted 200 miles  2 re-gear is up to 1500 miles 
Blaine    


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<DIV>I had the same problem on our Nash that;s running a 360. get a dail indicator &amp; check your distributor for run our , the bottom bushing had fail on mine causing the cam gear to wear. </DIV>
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