[BaadAssGremlins] Re: The Cure For Cabin Fever
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[BaadAssGremlins] Re: The Cure For Cabin Fever
- From: "amc74hornet" <AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:22:37 -0000
--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, baadass73gremlin@xxxx wrote:
>
> In a message dated 2/2/05 5:01:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> AMC74HORNET@xxxx writes:
>
>
> I finally got out of the house yesterday and took the orange car out for
> a drive. After sitting for 11 days in sub zero temps, I pumped the gas 4
> times pulled out the manual choke and cranked it for 10 seconds and it
> fired right up. It probably would have started faster but I figured
> after sitting for 11 days the carb was dry. You can keep your computers,
> electronic ignition, fuel injection and all that new fangled mumbo jumbo
> these new cars have. Plain and simple works for me, points, a manual
> choke, and an Acell Super coil along with a mid range priced Interstate
> battery works just as well as all this so called modern crap. It was so
> nice to be out of the house and to be driving one of my Hornet's. The
> Chebby is still buried and the yellow Hornet is still frozen inside the
> garage. Figuring I needed to rest my hand and let the swelling go down
> in my arm yesterday when I came home so I spent the afternoon grinding
> down the last 30 washers I needed to finish all the upholstery panels. I
> am taking the orange car out again today to pick up some more supply's
> that all of a sudden I realized I need as tonight into tomorrow we are
> supposed to get a wintery mix. :-(
> "Doc"
>
>
>
> Yer lucky Doc,My 73 Fury won't start in 40 degree weather lol.
> Bart
You got factory electronic ignition in it? The early Mopar electronic Ign. was worse than the crap AMC used. I know as I had Dodge pick up trucks in the mid 70's where I worked. They were very touchy about dampness of any kind.
"Doc"
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