Re: [AMC-list] Tarpon

["Larry R. Daum" <mramc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Dan Strohl" <DStrohl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-list] Tarpon

Just letting my mind float here:

As we all know, the Marlin went into production on the Classic platform
even though the Tarpon show car was built on the American platform.
Knowing that, has anybody ever attempted to build their own Tarpon using
the roof of a 1965 Marlin mated to a 1965 American body? I'm sure it's
not as simple as it sounds, but it'd be interesting to see a
"production" Tarpon in the flesh.

Dan

There only a few people with the skill level to do some thing like 
creating a functioning running Tarpon car that works.
One was Steve Schall , who did the AMX convertible, but Steve died 
several years ago. There are maybe a couple of
other people capable of such a task, but one who could and last I 
talked to him several years ago was working on it, is
a guy in Wisconsin , named Glen Bodnar. Glen is a silver smith , and 
teaches silver smithing  from a shop off the Quad of the
University of Wisconsin - Madison . Glen redid a 1963 Classic 4 door 
sedan, a pretty pedestrian car at a skill level Rolls - Royce
would have been proud of, and he was looking into doing a Tarpon. 
I've not talked to him in a number of years so I don't know  if he's
made any progress. There are a couple other people that might do some 
thing along this line, but Glen is the only one I know who was
actually seriously considering doing a Tarpon that I know of who had 
the skill level to do one. LRDaum

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