Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Early Gremlin Question?

["amc74hornet" <amc74hornet@xxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, <badass73gremlin@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> From: Onree <onree@xxxx>
> Date: 2004/03/01 Mon PM 11:31:05 EST
> To: <BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Early Gremlin Question?
> 
> I don't know where the idea that the four seaters came along later came
> from, but it is simply not true. I bought the very first Gremlin sold in my
> town (Lincoln,NE) on April 1, 1970, the introduction day. It was Frost White
> with red stripe, 199 motor, column shift three-speed stick, no radio, deluxe
> interior, (red vinyl bench, glove compartment cover, package shelf) chrome
> luggage rack, 650x13 whitewalls with full wheelcovers. It was a four
> passenger with the opening hatch. The hatch was what sold me on the car
> 'cause I was a drummer, and could get my double bass drum drumset (I took
> the back seat completely out) in that little car. My brother in law liked
> mine so much that he bought one a few days later--also a four passenger. I
> was at the dealer a lot the first few months because my Gremlin had a lot of
> glitches. The rear view mirror fell off, it would hang up in first gear,
> hatch leaked in the rain, fuel leak, etc. I learned not to be the first kid
> on the block--let somebody else work out the glitches. I didn't even see a 2
> passenger until fall of 1970, and I think it was a 1971 model--not sure
> though, but it was after the 1971s came out. I loved my Gremlin, except for
> the balky three-speed column shift, put about 50,000 miles on it and traded
> it for a 1973 Datsun 240Z in May of 1973.
> I was then Gremlinless until summer of 2001, when I bought a 1972, 258 with
> three-speed FLOORSHIFT on eBay. In fall of 2003 I got a 1973 with 304 and
> automatic. I also have 2 Eagle SX4s (spiritually a gremlin) and 2 Eagle
> wagons, a 1953 BelAir, and a Morris Minor. Too many cars--I should sell
> something but I can't decide what to give up.
> Onree
> 
> purge the Morris Minor and maybe the 53 Belair :)
> Bart

You took the words right out of my mouth Bart.
"Doc"