Re: [AMC-List] Play on Words

[Russell Neyhart <rtneyhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

...not to keep you talking about this long enough to go out and get 
another Spirit, but... maybe a four worked a bit with a manual would 
have given you a better front/rear weight bias and made for better auto-x?

Russell

Tom Jennings wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Brien Tourville wrote:
>
>   
>> something off an investment firm commercial >
>> Ameriquest maybe - didn't catch that part.
>>     
>
> arf arf arf arf ....!
>
>
>   
>> For their limited amount of time in production,
>> I don't believe they faired well in surviving   -  
>> Opinions ?
>>     
>
> They do get a bad rap. I owned one, it was basically an
> upgraded gremlin, but minus most of the weirdness that made
> gremlins... gremlins.
>
> Great fun chassis for modding. All the AMC-latest good stuff,
> anything bolts into it, light, common parts, and the "AMX"
> trim package's rear "fin" is oddly attractive.
>
> I had a black 79 AMX with the screamin chicken on the hood,
> the complicated orange decaling and the fender flares. I ended
> up stripping all that gunk off -- except the tail which was
> inexplicably attractive -- and painting it white. Had 304 and
> 998. I used to autocross it (I wasn't a goodf autocrosser and
> I made a lot of chassis mistakes in the car, none the fault of
> the car).
>
> Made my own grille (eh, but I hated that late-70's baroque
> pointless complexity) and converted it to single headlamps
> (which I think was a big win). kept the fin, bumpers black.
>
> You can judge it here:
>
> http://wps.com/AMC/1979-AMC-AMX/index.html
>
> I kinda wish I had an 83 GT...
>
> In fact I have to stop now, I'm talking myself into thinking
> about another one...
>
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