Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmm...........

A few more thoughts on the subject and others raised by Eddie. As for 'finished," are we ever really finished with our cars? I agree with Eddie, hell no! For the record, I continue to take the AMC out and I continue to park near the motor heads with chebbies and stangs.

I also additional thoughts about the lack of AMC vehicles in the Northeast part of the country. The first came to me by way of reminder at a show last week when a motor head who was viewing the Grem said to me, "Boy, If I had a dime for every Gremlin me and my buddies destroyed on the dirt track." Here in the Northeast, dirt racing was a really big past time. Grems, Hornets, AMX's by the boat loads met their demise here -- a mess of them at a track just 12 miles from my childhood home, the now defunct Mocatec Speedway.

Also, the winters in the Pocono's and further north tend to be very harsh and we all know what road salt can do to cars, especially an AMC. Say what you will, and feel free to argue, but I've lived in the highest point of the Pocono Mountains for my entire adult life. I ain't never seen a car melt from road salt like an AMC!

I did not see a single AMC at the car cruises I went to while vacationing at Niagara Falls and Lockport NY. Even when you see a daily driver from the 80's up there, it is rusted to shit from the tons of salt the cars are subjected to.

In a message dated 7/5/2007 12:25:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

I forgot to add that I highly encourage people t take their AMCs out, even if 6 shades of bondo or hitting on 5 cylinders or four different rims. Each vehicle has a story to tell, and there are a lot of project cars out there.

Somewhere on my site I go off about AMCers who may/may not have a nice or shitty car, and don't bother to bring it to a meet. A certain Rebel Machine with 9000 original miles on it comes to mind; the guy lives within a three iron (ok, you can look from his porch and see Kennedy Park) but the guy would not bother to literally take his damned car out of garage......and across street to the big meets in Kenosha!

I have a long memory and remember a dozen people who didn't bother to come to the big AMO AMC National meet here in Houston. Many of us busted our asses for 5 years to put that meet on. But the excuses made me want to vomit. One guy said he didn't have the $15 to put the car on showfield for instance! I told him I give you money, now drive car and support meet. There was the usual suspects like 'my car ain't finished' for instance.

Finished. Think about that. I don't believe of all the thousands of cars I have documented in the decades that a car is actually 'finished'. Even if high dollar rotisserie restoration, the owner will find something else he/she may want to do to it; could be little tiny detail like factory screws, could be major like re undercoating the bottom better than how it left Kenosha.

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