Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Cheap !@#$%^ Parts and a Pleasant Surprise

[Bradley Jones <wagonmasterx5@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, those truck drivers a wee bit crazy. We had a trucker follow us 2 exits past his just to get a look at my friend's '76 Sportabout. He even knew which year it was without asking. A TRUE AMCer at heart!!

> All the upgrades and modifications I did on my yellow Hornet over the
> 30+ years I did to my orange one and then some when I bought it. The
> yellow car still has that crap 35 amp  Motorola alt and the orange one
> has a 100 amp Delco. I installed a manual choke kit like the yellow car.
> Them Carter carbs automatic chokes stink. The manual one I put in the
> yellow car has worked  for 30 years. The new one I installed in the
> orange car 1 1/2 years ago is sticking and mind you the car sat for 11
> months of that time in my friends shop. The hole in the backealite choke
> cover is so big
>  that the choke shaft wobbles back and forth. Is there no
> quality any more? The choke kit cost 12$ and I had to have a bushing
> made to fix it that took my friend at his machine shop an hour to make
> and cost me 25$. He drilled out the hole in the backalite cover to fit
> the bushing and I an going to glue it in with JB Weld today. On a good
> note it was so warm yesterday I decided to try the A/C in the orange
> car. It didn't work when I bought it. This spring will be 2 years my
> friend added a sealer dye and charged it up for me for free. I haven't
> used it since and it works. I still have the gas gauge and courtesy
> light to get working. The wooden jig is made to hold the grill for its
> repair and re-finishing. The wife is still giving me hell about car
> parts in the house. I can't go anywhere with the orange car without it
> getting some kind of attention. A truck driver chased me across the
> supermarket parking lot on foot just to look at the car. He said
>  he
> hasn't seen one of them in years. :-)
> "Doc"

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