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There is a fellow here who I affectionately call the Gremlin god. He has
owned over 50 of them, and bought mostly from Houston police auctions....one
step before they would have been crushed at pick a part. Mnay he put back on the
road happy to say. Some I turned him onto, like a white 74 Gremlin X, 304 with
Levi's interior that I found for sale at a Washington Street used car place, it
was on back row, $1200; I would have bought it but no room at time and damnd
thing was super sweet. But the fellow, James Hahn, has restored a number of them
also and shown them locally.
Another felloe, Ed Hooper up in Dallas, has about 120 AMCs' right now and
usually floats between 100-150 cars at any given time; some he puts up for sale
and you will on occasion find him in the SUAD lists I do. I believe he has owned
over 40 Gremlin series thru the years; not sure how many now...nor
condition.
Years ago I told AJ in San Antonio it ain't how many you have it is
what you do with them. I menat that as a back handed compliment, as he was
picking up all types of AMCs, saving them from crusher much like I was doing.
However, once in his possesion, they would go to pot and sometimes flash
flooding wash them down stream, so sort of 'what the hell' situation where you
have lots of cars sitting around, but rusting to hell.
I have had over 20 Gremlins personally and are really fond
of them. Two of my favorites were the little Continental Airlines Gremlin I sold
to Dreamworks for the movie The Haunting, and another was a green one with no
third gear. Great running 258-6, but no third and reverse, so simply drove
everywhere in it in second, just was careful not to go above 45mph.....
Eddie Stakes'
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