[AMC-list] John Elle

[Matt Shumaker <mshumaker@xxxxx>]

It's sad to hear of John Elle's passing.  He ended up with a number of 
parts from my mother's 1974 Hornet.  It had been in showroom condition 
until she turned left in front of a minivan in Phoenix in 1998.  John 
got the front seats, the spring perches and some other items.  When my 
mother still had the car in California, my recently deceased cousin who 
then ran a high end European car repair shop (think Ferrari, Bentley, 
Porsche, etc.) looked after her car.  He managed to get two of the last 
NOS spring perches for her car.  They had less than 10K miles on them 
when I dismantled her wrecked Hornet.  I gave them to John, although he 
offered to pay for them.  The Concord I was rebuilding for my daughter 
didn't need them.

John had forgotten more about AMCs than most people ever knew. How we 
met John is an amusing story, perhaps for another time.

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