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Ah, ya'll grip all ya'll want, I STILL have the
record with this 71 Matador two door, shown at the Nationals here in Houston in
2001. I had it for sale for a record 7 years. It is still here and I have driven
it abuot 250 miles in ten years. The fellow just paid it off finally, took $2650
for it. Yes, the car has a staggering 14,976 original miles on it. All
documented and lots of original records. Ran it thru ebay three times and didn't
sell, and finally got disgusted and ran it thru no reserve starting at $1900. My
74 Hornet Sportabout wagon shown here has been for sale for almost three years,
heavily advertised also, but no one will give me $600 for it. But I sadly have a
waiting list of people wanting stuff off it like package tray, windshield, dash,
trans, disc brake setup, grill, roof spoiler. I did sell the breather lid off it
for $30, and the AM/FM for $250. $250. That is what the radio cost new in it in
1974. I don't think this car will be for sale as long as the 71 Matador however,
as I will part it out as tired of looking at it and no buyers. The 68 Javelin,
AJ, a longtime friend of mine from 189 west at South Texas AMC, said it is
restorable, as many of the panels are not what one would find up north. But the
car was however in a car fire in 1975 and had sat since, so I'm fixing to take a
Sawzall to it and with many of the rustfree panels, other Javelins and AMXs will
live on for another day to fight the good fight!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:08
AM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: Would
I pay.....??
A better bit of money spent was buying a pickup truck load
of
doors, hood, tail lights, trim bumper inserts, emblem, headlight
doors, a
front bumper and assorted parts from Davis for 450$ delivered I
think. He
also put me onto a set of NOS fenders for 400$ for my yellow
car. The
reason some drivable cars are junked is that no one wants to
buy them as
was the case with the Hornet Davis had, so he parted it out.
Doc,
You are right. that 74 hornet only had 52K miles on it and it
needed outer rockers, and minor quarter work. It was a nice 2 door. I tried
for over a year to sell it complete for as low as 200 bucks and no takers!
But when it came time to part it the care was unfortunatly worth alot more
in parts. I got the car for free and the money i made from parting it went
to buy more gremlin parts. I am a stay at home Dad right now and have been
out of work since august so the only way I can afford to get stuff for my
gremlin is by buying and selling parts and cars. I sold my 70 drag gremlin
so I could start the build up of a real 500 HP pump gas motor for my black
72 gremlin.
I was able to use one of the Moser axels from my old BBO Amc Team
Gremlin in my gremlin. I sent the moser (needed straightened) and the long
stock axel and a new bearing I got from Bill. All freebies. to Moser and for
250 bucks they straightened and recertified their axel and made a new axel
to match the stock so I ended up with 2 nice moser 31 spline axels with new
bearings, and new 3" wheel studs. That would have cost me over 460
bucks.
Just an example of how I save and afford some of my
stuff.
Next I am trying to sell my 69 AMX so I can finish payinmg off my
engine build.
I also have a few 70-73 gremlin X grilles that I plan to restore
and sell. I will be getting a plastic welder soon for that project. I found
that the Plastic Weld system epoxy doesn't hold up to the violence of
racing. So I am gonna try to actually weld the plastic instead.
Davis
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