[BaadAssGremlins] Re: The Fight Continues

["rebade1" <rebade1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hang in there Doc! I was showing some of my sons friends the photos 
of the AMC group here and the one car they were impressed with was 
your Hornets. They weren't even impressed with the burnouts, the 
wheelies, etc. They loved your Hornets. And these guys are the 19-20 
year olds who live around the ricer babies!

So again, Hang in there! You have something that impresses even the 
ricer generation!

Ralph

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, AMC74HORNET@xxxx wrote:
>
> In my 40+ years of messing with cars and I mean all brands not just
> AMC's from 50's and 60's classics to all out race cars I have never 
has
> so much trouble with one car as I have had in the last 2 years with 
this
> orange Hornet. No matter what I do it it's a fight, nothing ever 
fits
> right, up dated conversion kit's, repo or original factory parts. I 
know
> I am a pain for fit and finish but this has gotten to be 
ridiculous. If
> some one had offered me 5,000$ cash yesterday for it I would have 
taken
> it and the loss of the other 5,000$ I have in it and my 2 years 
worth of
> work. After almost 8 months on this interior job I figured I was 
closing
> in on the finish of the job except for the !@#$%^ bucket seats being
> upholstered. 3 weeks ago I started on the last item to be 
installed. 
> The dash. Granted it is made up of parts from many different cars 
(5)
> but almost nothing fit's without a hassle. The latest is while 
fighting
> the inst. panel in I knocked the speedo lens loose after fighting 
the
> inst. panel in. I was able to pull it out with masking tape and 
super
> glue it in without removing it another time. The super glue fogged 
up
> the edge of my nicely polished lens a little. While screwing on my 
new
> brake "T" handle after moving the wiper delay box I screwed it in 
to far
> and it ruined the lettering on the handle. That's no biggie i'll 
just
> buy another for 3.75$. Now I wire in the elect kill switch and test
> everything and it is OK. With a good charge of the battery the car
> starts up 1-2-3. I hooked up the speedo cable as my friend was to 
busy
> as his helper did not show up for work and he was swamped with work.
> What a trip that was twisting my fat crippled old A$$ in position 
to do
> that, I was lucky that my back didn't go out. Now I figure I am in 
for
> some smooth sailing as I now just need to install the package tray. 
I
> figured i'd just go for a test fit of the brackets and see if the 
holes
> in the kick panels and all lined up with out the factory gauge pod
> installed. I used kick panels out of a non package tray Gremlin a 
friend
> gave me. I used the original broken Hornet ones as a template to 
drill
> the mounting holes for the package tray and when I installed them 
the
> holes lines up with the holes in the door pillar fine. I install 
the 2
> "L" brackets and they do not have the right angle to let the package
> tray go in far enough to allow the screws on the kick panel to line 
up.
> There is little or no adjustment on them. I had been up since 2am 
and it
> was 4pm and actually found myself about to doze off under the dash. 
It
> was time to call it a day. I just don't understand it, it's not 
like I
> am an amateur and have never done this before. This winter I will be
> happy to do some easy work on some AMC models for a change. I will 
be
> heading out in a while to my friend shop to give that car hell 
again. I
> have 3 cars, my Chevy is down with a brake problem non one can 
find, the
> orange Hornet is not driveable yet. Thank god for old reliable my 
yellow
> Hornet of almost 32 years.  
> "Doc"
>






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