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Actually on driving AMCs in the snow, if I can find
the photos, there are several Eagles that STILL do duty at several Michigan
airports! And yes, in the snow. And AMC's marketing relied heavily on marketing
the Eagle Series as snow ready. Here are a number of original brochure photos of
Eagles off Arcticboy's website, and there is the Airline car. There is a
interesting story behind that as all the SUVs and 4X4s they have at that
airport, the Eagle was the only one to not only start, but also worked
tirelessly pulling carts, small airplanes, and well, pushing dead vehicles in a
major snowstrom they had up there in 2001 I believe it was. Jim Wajda is the
prez of the Bricklin club, good fellow, but the article appeared in several
magazines, really neat to see:
As for Gremlins in snow, nah.....
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:40
PM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] sand
When I was in high school, my girlfriend had a '72 Gremmy.
In deep snow, it couldn't be stopped. On icy or rainy roads it was a little
squirrely. She ran biased snow tires all year. themixtoo@xxxxxxx wrote:
Maybe you shouldn't drive ANY 30year old AMC in the snow (only Doc can
because he's a grumpy old Santa). Especialy a Gremlin, no amount of sand in
the back (what Back?) will fix your traction
problem. 'The
Mix' -----Original Message----- From: Charles
Burch <warlocke@xxxxxxxxx> To:
BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 22:26:58
-0600 Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] sand
ok guys in my gremlin (78) should i put sand in
the back or not i havent driven it in snow yet so i dont know how it will
act.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 9:34
AM
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] was
another gremlin on the road/now Alternators
My son's 72 Javelin had a 35 amp Motorola but no A/C
and when you had
the lights on and the defroster and the elect wipers
it was barely
marginal. Then turn on the stereo and the head lights
would go dim. It
finally died. His friends father had an ignition
repair shop and built
him a custom 65 amp Motorola which lasted a week
and re-built it again
and now it has been good for 1 1/2 years but the
car is not driven
regularly. There is supposed to be clearance problems
putting a Delco in
a V8 AMC with A/C on the compressor. On the 74 and
older Gremlin's and
Hornets with a 6 cyl there is a steering box
clearance problem putting a
Delco in if you have power steering due to
the larger box. Most of the
long time members here remember what I had
to go through to put a Delco
in my orange car 1 1/2 years ago.
Modifying brackets, machining the
Motorola fan to fit the delco and
finding a 1/2" shorter belt and
shiming the drivers side motor mount.
The alt housing and steering box
still needs to be ground a little for
clearance.
But turn on all the electric's in the car and
it still charges 14.5
volts. Do that in my other Hornet with the
Motorola and it drops from
14.5 to just below 12
volts.
"Doc"
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