Re: RE: [BaadAssGremlins] JB 343

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From: AMC74HORNET@xxxx
Date: 2004/08/23 Mon AM 08:10:54 EDT
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [BaadAssGremlins] JB 343

My Gremlin is a Hot Rod or Street Machine or Drag Car but then again when people say drag car i think of lexan windoes and covers over where the headlites used to be on one seat with a miryiad(sic) of steel bars inside but i digress i look at the standard 360 Hornet verses a SC/360 Hornet kinda like the the 66-69 Rambler and the SC/Rambler when theyd dropped in a 390 and Hurst got involved the American became a muscle car but thats my opinion i could be wrong :P
Bart



I think Tuners is a bad word here. I never thought of a Gremlin as a sub
compact but that term would apply in 2004. What would an SC360 Hornet be
called. That was a purpose built factory performance car. What category
would that fit into?  What was a compact in 74 is now a full size car. A
car cover from a Ford Taurus fits my 74 Hornet like it was made for it
and the Ford is considered a full size car and my Hornet is a compact.
The bottom line it is all a play on words. If you like em drive em and
save en don't argue which came first the chicken or the egg. My 2 cents.
"Doc"

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• From: "John W Rosa" <JohnRosa@xxxx>
• Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:41:08 -0400

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From: amc74hornet [mailto:AMC74HORNET@xxxx]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, <badass73gremlin@xxxx> wrote:
>
> Yes thats him i loath John Bilwin
> Bart

I see he is now into a muscle car debate and another one as to
which came first the 2 seater AMX or the Javelin on the AMX Files. 
"Doc"

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Yea, I tried to educate him, but that brain is
rock-hard. He wants to use 'Muscle car' to wrap
every quick US car ever built with. He just called
a 4-door Pontiac Parisienne a Muscle Car! YEESH.

He won't accept that, like 'Sports Car' and
'Pony Car', there are specific criteria needed
to fit into the 'Muscle Car' class. And no
single car can be in two of these classes. The
best analogy I can give is that you can't call
Eminem 'black' just because he performs rap.
His skin color is one CRITERIA that doesn't fit
into the 'black' term.
Similarly, no matter how fast an AMX...or even
a Gremlin is, it isn't a Muscle Car. It can be
fast, it can be Muscular, and it is a car. But
it isn't intermediate sized, and it doesn't
seat 5. Therefore, it doesn't fit the original
definition.

Funny- he waves the 'Muscle' name all over, but
never calls a GTO a 'Sports Car'...why is that?
Can't be the criteria...he don't care about
criteria. And it is Sporty and a car! Hmmm...

Somehow, these facts are insulting to him.

John Rosa
www.JavelinAMX.com

P.S. I haven't thought about it much, but since
this is the B.A.Gremlins group, I have to guess
that V8 Gremlins come under 'Performance Sub-
Compacts', for lack of a cooler term (tho I'd
have applied 'Pocket Rockets' to them before
the Tuner craze started).

P.P.S.- Hi Bart!


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