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Well, not a lot of snow here, but all my cars are
driven daily, weekly or semi weekly also, as mentioned Paige drove the 72
Ambassador to work today, tomorrow drive the 88 Eagle again and I'll drive the
81 Eagle, so guess some drive by choice, whether sleet, snow, rain or
hurricanes. Maybe I need to buy a front wheel drive non aMC beater!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:02
AM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] sand
OK, I think y'all missed the point. Why would anybody (except Doc) want
to take a chance of F....n up a 30 year old AMC by driving it in the snow on
purpose. I don't care how good it can go. Just my
.02 'The Mix' in snowy Cleveland, Ohio (Snow
belt here has already seen 56" this
season) -----Original
Message----- From: eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxTo:
BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:21:48
-0600 Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] sand
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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