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bradley i wasnt talking to you when i said that it
was directed towards the mix
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 1:56
PM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] sand
Personally, I park my AMCs for the winter mainly because I
don't want the rust issues and I never know what the other driver is going to
do. Parts are a lot harder to come by than my POS K-car. If the K-car gets
hit, no big deal. If my Hornet got hit.....well.....the insurance company
would automatically total it due to the age. (31) If you have a rust free AMC,
the best thing to do is store it for the winter. Have you tried to find rear
quarter panels for it?? Just like triing to find hens teeth. By the way,
this is not a smart-ass reply. Charles Burch
<warlocke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ok "the mix" i did not ask for a smart ass
remark from now on dont reply to my posts if ur just going to be a smart ass
----- 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 moto
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