Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Ebay Mile Liars

[<eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul, yup, a majority of that you see on ebay with the description of 
cars is well, as old as the car itself. If you have ever tried to buy a new, 
or used, car thru the years, don't matter which decade, you will hear so 
much bullshit you will have to wear waders. Words like cream puff, little 
old lady, low miler, pampered, garaged, come to mind!

But there are some low miler AMCs out there. I had the chance to buy a 71 
Matador 2door, 304, AT, Matador Red, white interior, from a fellow in Clyed, 
Texas in the early 1990s. I passed on it, it eventuall sold for $5500. What 
was special about it was it had only 1334 original miles. Even the air in 
the tires was new. The little old lady who bought it new, drove it to church 
and store for two years then died. The car was at the big Homecoming AMC 
meet in Kenosha in 1998 in case anyone had a chance to look at it. Amazing 
to see Champion N12-Y original plugs, original polyester tires and more on 
something like that.

I have had a number of low mile cars myself. The fellow who bought my 71 
Matador 2 door with less than 15K miles for instance. A photo of the mileage 
is here, and it is all original. I have driven this car less than 200 miles 
in 8 years. He is making payments on it, and it will eventually end up in 
Marrietta, GA. But the mileage you see it ACTUAL, 14,976. I have driven this 
car two whole blocks in over a year. Broken down, this 1971 AMC has been 
driven a average of 414 miles per year since 1971.

The other photo here, one is the 72 Matador 'machine' I just sold on ebay 
for $2551.00 last week, it has a whopping 56,252 original miles on it. And 
all original.

And lastly, my 71 SC/360 NOS tachometer and NOS speedometer is shown in 
another photo. Yup, that is 00001.5 miles on the speedometer, which is brand 
new in the box and never has been installed on any vehicle. When I finish my 
Hornet, the car will have 00001 mies on it 'since restoration' however, the 
vehicle from 1971 has had 98K original on it.

As for odometers, Eagle odometers roll past 100K, my 82 Eagle wagon has 
about 212K on it right now.

But yes, a majority of cars chunked on ebay has exaggerated claims like 
mileage, and other fun words thrown in fro good measure like 'mint' or 
'rare' or 'restored' to name a few! But there are some monster low mile AMCs 
that do indeed still exist and never see asphalt, the problem is getting 
people to back up the claims!
Eddie Stakes'
Planet Houston AMX
713.464.8825
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Gable" <pdgable@xxxxxxx>
To: <BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:06 AM
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Ebay Mile Liars


> HI there everybody,
> Has anyone else noticed that the people that sell AMC cars(as well as
> the other cars I am sure) are one of two things. Either they are all
> a bunch of people who either never drive their car or inherited it
> from some person who never drove it. It is really kind of funny. Here
> are some miles for the cars listed on Ebay.
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> 1969 Javelin 63,500
> 1966 Rambler American 440 98,446
> 1976 Hornet 72,408
> 1960 Rambler Deluxe 87,000
> 1966 Marlin 68,502
> 1969 AMbassador SST 43,000
> 1968 AMX 54,571
> 1960 Rambler Custom 68,500
>  Thank God for this guy who makes up for this ridiculous miles with
> this estimation
> 1974 Matador 922,337,204!!
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> Then back to the little old lady cars
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> 1968 AMX 30,500
> 1969 Rambler 20,000
> 1976 Pacer 84,000
> 1970 Javelin 74,616
> 1970 Rebel Machine 68,358
> 1960 Rambler 61,000
> 1960 Rambler Ambassador 79,000
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> C'mon!! This is just silly! Are they all expecting us to believe that
> these AMC cars are never driven? Is it because the people were too
> embarrassed to be seen in a car that was no built by the Big 3?
> Seriously go to Ebay and search for AMC. The way I see it is that
> most of these cars were not driven lately. My Gremlin sat in a field
> for Who-knows-how-many-years. Hmmm, my odometer says 68,000 Could it
> be that I have a real AMC Gremlin survivor? I think that these people
> think that since the odometer only goes to 99999, that is the maximum
> miles that an AMC car can exist. If it says 80,000, then by God,
> there must be only 80,000 miles on there!! I think that is enough
> ranting for the day.
> Peace
> Paul
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