Re: A very good night.

["amc74hornet" <AMC74HORNET@xxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, twa1950@xxxx wrote:
> Your right I owe you both a beer. Carling Black Lable Doc. I used to buy that 
> stuff years ago when I did a lot of camping. I think $5.00 a case for it if 
> you had your bottles. We have what they call reformulated gas here. Junk gas I 
> call it. When it first came out it was suggested that you go across the bridge 
> to Indiana if you had an older car because they didn't have it there . They 
> change to it now. I must have read your mind Eddie I filled it with Chevron 
> last night on my way to the car show. $1.93 a gallon. Gas has come down a little 
> bit here in the last couple of days. Only had problems with the float one 
> time last night. On my way to pick up my son I went over some rough railroad 
> tracks and it was stuck when I pulled into the driveway. No more problems last 
> night and it did fine today. The car show was a blast. Sure felt good. I got to 
> the fairgrounds hadn't been in traffic for 5 minutes and a guy parked across 
> the street in a late model Mustang started blowing his horn and waving like 
> crazy. I told my son he must have seen something he really likes. About that time 
> he gets out of car and yells you in the Gremlin you got some car there. Here I 
> sit with $50,000 street rods sitting behind me, in front of me, beside me and 
> coming at me and this guy is yelling how great my $1,500 Gremlin. Makes you 
> feel good. Drove a little farther down the road in front of what I call motel 
> roll and a guy who was sitting in front of a 32 Ford, stops me in traffic and 
> wanted to buy Gremmie. In the five minutes or less that I was stopped found out 
> he was from Georgia, his daughter loved cars but he had two street rods at 
> the show and couldn't afford another one for her and the Gremlin would be 
> perfect. I told him it wasn't for sale for any price. Man am I dumb. Got to the 
> local car I wanted to go to. Usually they have a hundred cars at the most. About 
> half of the front parking lot. When I got there they apologized and said I 
> would have to go to the rear parking lot. They filled that lot up not long after I 
> got there and started parking them on the ball field. If I had to guess 400 
> hundred cars about a forth or not more Street Rods from the National event. I 
> didn't make it to the other local show across town. As you might guess except 
> for the 68 Javelin sitting in front of Thrify car rental with a $7,000 price 
> tag on it I had the only AMC to be found. I had a very good night. 
> Terry

I am glad me and Eddie were able to help you. Better yet that you had a good time with your Gremlin at the show. The cheapest regular gas around here is 2.19$ down from 2.29$ a month ago.
"Doc"