Re: [AMC-List] Plastic Valve Covers on the 258

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 12:28 +0000, jackbarncord@xxxxxxx wrote:

> As for the 76 Sportabout, I really have my heart set on a 72.  It's a
> teenage experience thing.  I have a plethora of parts awaiting to go
> into a 72 that will become my weekend toy, I need only find one worthy
> of the effort.  The car needs to be as structurally sound as possible,
> hint, hint.

No arguing with that! :-)

I like the 70-72 Hornets over later ones by a big margin; the nose is
completely different in style. Vastly cleaner lines, strongly 1960's. In
'73 the lines started getting busy. 70 I like best of all, it's
basically an American with Hornet sheetmetal, with a few anoyances (like
a one-year gas cap & rear panel; nothing else fits it, I can't use one
of those gaudy locking 5 lb. chromie Hornet gascaps).

I'm barely OK with the plastic interior though; my 1963 Classic is
closer to a real car to me and feels like home, and I occasionally get
irrational urges for something with a generator and running boards. It's
becoming a real sickness. (By the usual baby-duck syndrome thing(*), I
should be hot for muscle cars, but I have no interest in V8's.)


(*) Pretty much car nuts latch onto what was cool when they were young
driving age. 20 yr olds want Scions; my father likes rodded T's.

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