Re: [AMC-list] What Did You Do on Your AMC this weekend?

[Bruce Griffis <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah - I'm not going to use them. Just hold on to them and a really
old cigarette lighter-powered flashlight. Kinda wish the car came with
old road maps, but I'll settle for the flashlight and tire chains.

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Be carefully the chains are in good shape and you have them 100%
> correct if you use them. Too much speed or a loose chain will wreck a 1/4 or fender in no time flat!
>  Cool that you have them!
>
> Mark Price
> Morgantown, WV 26508
> 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
> 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
> "I realize that death is inevitable.
> I just don't want to be around when it happens!"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> From: "Bruce Griffis" <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Rambler AMC, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 3:51:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] What Did You Do on Your AMC this weekend?
>>
>> Oh yeah. I buckled up before putting it in first.  :-)
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Bruce Griffis
>> <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Rambler stuff this weekend?
>> >
>> > Dusted the snow off.
>> > Popped the hood.
>> > Pulled off the air cleaner.
>> > Gave it a shot of starting fluid.
>> > Got in.
>> > Turned the key.
>> > Rolled the driver's side window down.
>> > Drove.
>> >
>> > I was driving my wife's Highlander for errands, then remembered
>> that
>> > the original owner had called the car "Traveller". Not just after a
>> > southern horse some hundred and forty five years ago or so, but
>> > because when everything else was parked - her and her family piled
>> > into the Rambler and headed out for the North Georgia mountains. If
>> > the roads were snowy or icy, they put the chains on. She didn't
>> baby
>> > it at all, and it held up fine (except for being parked for 12
>> > years!). I'm not going to baby it, either.
>> >
>> > Heck, I have the chains it came with. Didn't put 'em on as the
>> roads
>> > are finally okay almost everywhere. But I didn't park it. I
>> wandered
>> > off and ran errands in it. I think it might be cool to dig out the
>> > chains, pop 'em in a box and put 'em in the trunk again.
>> >
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