Re: [Amc-list] old cars suck, but new ones are worse

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Guy up the road from where I grew up had a very cool 32 Ford coupe.
> It looked bone stock to me and I thought it was for years.
> One day I got a close look at it sitting outside his house and started talking to him.
> It had a hopped up four banger in it. Roll and tuck white interior with red piping, Juice brakes [IIRC he said from a 42?]
> He'd had it for years, it was sprayed in black lacquer and hand rubbed. It was 12volt converted and sported a stereo etc;
>    He said it was his favorite car and he had two Mustangs a Corvette and several other decent muscle car types.
> 
> Now I understand a lot better then I did at the time.

The 'hopped up four banger', I saw one, an open roaster type, at some 
Orange County car show... open car, and an OHV head on an A engine! Open 
pipes! Wow was it nice... OK that could sway me... but I got a yard full 
of AMC iron, and I'm really looking forward to putting that 195.6ohv 
together...


Yar, and what Andrew sez.

There's no chance of me getting such a thing; it was an impulse after 
reading the article... and yeah, 32 would be better (you could make a 
real car w/hyd brakes and all that). It's attractive though.

I didn't say the thing that surprised me -- price. Apparently a Model T, 
  $5000 is mid priced. I tink the geezer factor is the reason.

(Geezer factor, meaning, each car era seems to have it's nostalgic 
cohort; when they get old enough that they start demographically dying 
off, their toys go on the market. It'll happen to me, so I ain't making 
fun of them!)
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