Re: [Amc-list] "Ace in the Hole"

[JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great story.  Sorry about Mario.   I'm keepin' the
tires.  The Cragars have gone to the scrap yard.  

Joe Fulton
Salinas, CA
--- Brien Tourville <hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The tires are Goodyear GT radials dating from the
> late
> seventies or early 1980s.  
> 
> They came to me on some old
> Cragar wheels off of a 69 AMX I bought and have
> since
> sold.  
> 
> I had put them on the car even though I
> realized they were old. 
> 
> They look is so period correct
> for the car mounted on AMC ralley wheels. 
> 
> The tread
> depth is like a new tire and I wasn't worried about
> the condition of the rubber because of the light
> weight of the Gremlin and the fact that I live alone
> and wouldn't have anyone else to worry about in the
> car.
> 
> But in order to have a comfortable (and admittedly
> safer ride) it looks like I'll be investing in
> tires.
> 
> Joe Fulton
> Salinas, CA 
> 
> 
> 
> ===.===
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cragers and Good~Years.....Oh My...
> 
> Didn't I tell this story once before ?..I did.....
> well.....
> it's almost Labor Day....and Dad always linked Labor
> Day
> with Automotive Highway Carnage.....
> 
> 
> so let us begin again:
> 
> 
> 
> I had a big Italian 
> 
> chum, Mario Mazarello - funny guy..... dealers
> dealer,
> threw some great parties.
> 
> 
> Mario came over one afternoon with Guitar chum Neil
> - sometime in the late '70s,
> I was clearing out the garage of accumulated
> junk - which if I could eBay 
> that stuff today - would cover
> a decent Paint job...... but not to digress:
> 
> 
> 
> Had this wretched Cragar SS mag with an old snow
> tire on it
> that needed to go.
> 
> Blistering chrome flaking - SS Insignia gone - 
> it was for a GM and I was HUDSON / MOPAR, so out it
> went.
> 
> 
> Always the scrounge, Mario asked if I wanted the SS
> mag:
> 
> 
> "the tire is shot Mario - ....."  he wanted the SS
> mag:
>  
> 
> "Himmler...give me 'The SS'......chicken
> farmer....."
> 
> 
> 
> "if I give you the mag - you'll fu!in  kill yourself
> 
> with the tire Mario........ - I don't need that on
> my conscience
> ."
> 
> yah-da-yahh-dah ....... whine - 
> 
> " look, you can't run this -
> if I give you the mag - you take this tire off - do
> not 
> run this thing for any reason"....... promise"
> 
>  yah da -
> "no - the thing is shot"........ whine
> 
> so later "ok - but  - get rid of the tire"
> <Grin> 'n promises..
> 
> 
> Mario ran a '70 Camaro > 'Orca'..... body by
> 'Wanker'.
> 
> half the car was Bondo and sheet scrap metal - used
> old
> license plates patch quarters held in by bondo......
> 
> shot with red primer... car would rock gently at
> idle
> streaming blue haze out the duals...........
> 
> 'Orca' packed a 'vette 350 - with goodies.......
> 
>  Can't tell you
> what the nearly unfastened front bucket seats were
> from..... maybe
> a TR or a Sprite..... who knows.
>  
> Last time I'd seen Mario in one piece - it was about
> 11PM - 
> the NY STATE POLICE
> had him pulled over in front of the VFW Post Bldg.on
> Rte. 9W South:
>  
> drivers door was open - dash glowing green:
> 
> Mario's at the rear of 'Orca'
> which was cheerfully
> lope_ing trails of Blue Smoke onto the scene......
> 
> the 7ft. tall Trooper had a flashlight in Mario's
> face - while Mario
> - both arms extended outward - doing the 'touch your
> nose' sobriety
> test Dance in the glaring lights of a MoPar Pursuit
> Vehicle...... 
> grinned as he wowed the 'chump'..... 
> 
> I crept past the spectacle, fighting a 'feeling'
> that I shouldn't
> stop to chat.
> 
> .
> 
> I had sold my Ovation PA Sound system from my
> touring Group to Mario as he
> loved Johnny Winter - had bought a '68 Gibson
>  Firebird Guitar - had a 'Kill ah MARSHALL' amp -
> and had begged nicely for a payment schedule.  
> 
> 
> I'd hauled a '63 Porsche's' home for him one
> Blizzarding Winters Day - 
> beat him at 'Battleship' -  gave him a ride back
> home when his BSA-sh!t put
> a rod thru the engine  case and main frame down tube
> one evening
> while we were
> biking up Storm King Mountain on the road to West
> Point .
> 
> 
> As Mario, he fell behind on payments - I called Neil
> to get
> some leverage: 
> 
> " B..... Mario's dead"........ huH?
> 
> "He hit a tree a thousand yards out from his Mom's
> house coming
> home from the gig at 'Ace in the Hole' ....."
> 
> 
> I lived down the street from 'Beansy's Towing' - he
> had the Thruway
> concession and he was the Coroner - great lot of
> cars - is where
> I found my '66 GTO convertible sans motor & trans
> one sunny afternoon.
> 
> His Son Eddie had an L-88 motor & trans meant for
> the car - Beansy liked
> my Dad - he was the Principal of the local High
> School and involved
> in Town Politico - so the GTO got flat bedded home &
> Eddie got stiff'd:
>  
> $75.00 and a bottle of Scotch... ;)   Dad knew the
> ropes.
> 
> 
> It was a week after Mario's wreck that I heard he'd
> gone in,
>  - Funeral was long
> 
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