Re: [Amc-list] Marvin's Home

["Armand Eshleman" <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

If you weren't so far away I'd grab that MD Javelin from you for my
project.........

Armand
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JOE FULTON" <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 9:18 AM
Subject: [Amc-list] Marvin's Home


> My first AMC project car is Marvin a 1966 Rambler
> American 220 with 3600 miles on the clock.  Some of
> you may remember Marv, because that was the car that
> got me interested in the hobby and I had just
> purchased it and had started the "restoration" when I
> first began posting to this mail list years ago.
>
> Marv sat in San Francisco in the salt air and got
> surface rust and other problems from general disuse.
> He had sat from 1968 (last license sticker on the
> license plate) until 1996? or so when I bought him
> from a salvage yard which was preparing to shred him.
>
> After working on him (disassembly, honing cylinders
> and reassembling the engine, repainting the dash,
> refinishing the steel wheels and all of the
> undercarriage and cleaning and painting the gas tankz)
> I put him in storage in an airplane hangar in the Los
> Angeles area when I moved to Salinas in 2000.  He will
> be photographed while he's here at home for a couple
> of days then go into storage (temporary this time, I
> hope) in another airplane hangar nearer to my home.  I
> do need to finish him, which will now require paint
> and body work.  I may hire it done and plan to haul
> him to the local shop which painted my 73 Javelin
> (since sold) and get a quote tomorrow.   So now, here
> is this summer's project list:
>
> Keep my 77 Gremlin in running condition.(Air pump or
> alternator is making noise at idle.  No further
> problems with "clacking" lifters.)
>
> Put Marv back in storage after assessing the cost of
> completion.
>
> Retrieve from storage and sell my Mark Donohue Javelin
> project car.
>
> Sell the 79 Spirit GT I picked up last week.  (I'll be
> posting more on condition and sale price later today).
>
> Finish building the 195.6 engine for my 65 Rambler
> American and put that car back on the road.
>
> Repair my 64 Classic 4-door sedan and put it back on
> the road (and sell it.)
>
> Finish my 75 Pacer (needs clutch and reassembly of the
> interior).  It also need paint.
>
> Joe Fulton
> Salinas, CA
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