I love the reactions I get. I'll never forget my brother-in-law stopping by
one day as I was into the restoration. He said, "Why the hell would anyone want
to restore an AMC?" Now, I'm the envy of local motorheads.
In a message dated 5/11/2006 9:24:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Terry.Atkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
It has
been my experience that every one over the age of 40 or so either
owned a
Gremlin or their best friend and they ran around it. I can't
count the
times I have been thanked for the memories it has brought back
to people.
You know I have taken it out more than once even though I
didn't really
feel like it just because it that. It kind of makes you
feel
good.
Terry
--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, AMC74HORNET@...
wrote:
>
> I have had all sorts of people comment on my orange car
saying I had
on
> of those or my mother or father had one of those.
The best was a woman
> around 50 years old. I had stopped at a local
speed shop for somthing
> and this woman came running over with what
appeared to be her husband
in
> tow. She started going off that my
orange car was exactly like her
first
> new car orange body with the
same puke tan interior it used to have.
> You would swear she was having
an organism excited as she was to see
the
> car. Her husband was
clearly embarrassed by her actions and kept
trying
> to get her to
move along to the diner they were going to next to the
> speed shop. It
seemed to have made her day as she kept looking back as
> her husband
was trying to get her into the diner.
>
"Doc"
>
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