Re: [Amc-list] AMC Spare

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At some point, when I get time or ambition, I plan on going to the Jeep or another narrow tall wheel in the American. I may go for a narrow 15X4 Rally as you can get them in dual pattern fairly cheap if you look around.
  Anyway the plan is to lay my sealed Optima type battery down on it's side and build a rack to allow the spare to slide above it in the right rear corner of the trunk. This will give me some trunk space back. If I do it right I should be able to make a space for a tool kit to fit beside the battery under the spare too. I'll likely have to fool with the spring on that corner if I do all this and pile it on that one corner. It is the traction corner though! :] 
Right now the spare lays in the back in the center, the battery takes up the right rear corner and the subs take the space over the rear axle. Any chance of putting much in the way of luggage is a call fro rearranging things. Plus forget about opening it up at a car show!
  I must admit this is not high on my list of things to do right now!
6 more days!!!..............
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Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Keleigh Hardie <keleigh3000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Agreed, it is. I've been craving a simpler car myself lately. Something 
> with points and a carburetor. I understand. On an intellectual level, 
> though, I do agree with Frank. Space savers make sense. Flat tires 
> aren't all that common any more, and with modern cars some wheel/tire 
> assemblies are so expensive and heavy that it doesn't make sense to 
> waste a lot of money and weight on a wheel and tire you may never use. I 
> know that hardly any of my customers are likely to change their own any 
> more. Heck, some  of our cars don't come with any spare at all, just a 
> high tech bottle of "fix-a-flat". Hope their AAA membership is current...
> 
> Keleigh
> 
> Tom Jennings wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Keleigh Hardie wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> "On the Hornet I went backwards in time"
> >>
> >> Kewl. I thought only DeLoreans could do that...
> >>     
> >
> > Nope! :-)
> >
> > (I just figured in this age of spacesavers or less, five full
> > wheels and tires was a bit oldfashioned. I couldn't find the
> > Hornet's running boards to store them on.)
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