i will see if i can get tom viland on here his dad was the friend of dick teage production assembly line didnt start tell april 1970 the car was built with the 360 in the factory with automatic and all the v 8 stuff disc brake larger like the 72 amxs had factory traction bars and sway bars dayna 308 posi a/c no power brakes
--- In BaadAssGremlins@ yahoogroups. com, Terry Atkins <twa1950@... > wrote:
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> OK there are things here I am not understanding. This is the first Gremlin built right. Did it come down the assembly line and they built it like this or was it built as a 232 auto and Teage took it home with him and turn it into the 360 hot car. I don't really understand why you would do this. You are getting ready to introduce an econo car to the public and your messing around with something like
this. Doesn't make a lot of since to me. Then since the only thing new about the Gremlin was the shape of the rear end maybe they would have. They should have gotten all the bugs out of it with the Hornet. Are you telling me they didn't start producing the Gremlin until some time in March of 70. Sure didn't give them much time to get them off the assembly line and into the showroom by the first of April. Then again when they first hit the showroom did they have any for sale or did the dealers just have one or two and you had to order them. I would have
> thought AMC would have pulled the first one off the assembly line and would have put it in a show room some where. I know they do that at the Toyota plant in Georgetown Ky. They pulled the very first car off the assembly line and put it in the lobby where it is today. They tell me they do that with every model change. Just wondering. I was 20 when they came out but I don't remember
much about their introduction all I knew it didn't have a V8 in it so it wasn't much of a car.
> Terry
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> From: uneedittwo48239 <uneedittwo48239@ ...>
> To: BaadAssGremlins@ yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Fri, March 12, 2010 1:01:03 PM
> Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: teages first gremlin pilot car 360 grrremlin feb 1970... [3 Attachments
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> hi yes i realize the vin said 6 cly this was a pilot car teage built like the amx pilot cars i dont know of any gremlins with a February build date also the engineers and people working on the car in Michigan the painter and builder both live in farmington hills Michigan this is a well known and documented car here, he has had several high dollar
offers on this car above a shelby needing restored way out of my range thats why i cloned it the car it was suppose to go to the crusher with the other pilot cars teage was able to get a few out like the amx3s i remember the amx 3 sitting in mr vilands driveway while he worked out the overheating problems
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> --- In BaadAssGremlins@ yahoogroups. com, "Tim" <timkott@ > wrote:
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> > The Vin says its a 1970 232 automatic column shift, number 213179 produced in kenosha
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> > --- In BaadAssGremlins@ yahoogroups. com, "uneedittwo48239" <uneedittwo48239@ > wrote:
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> > > http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/BaadAssGre mlins/photos/ album/2014499344 /pic/list? mode=tn&order= ordinal&start= 1&count=20& dir=asc
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> > > --- In BaadAssGremlins@ yahoogroups. com, "uneedittwo48239"
<uneedittwo48239@ > wrote:
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> > > > hi yes there is 2 pages under grrremlin currant pics are second page
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> > > > --- In BaadAssGremlins@ yahoogroups. com, Davis Martin <martin-davis@ > wrote:
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> > > > > Yes that sounds like a Great story! Its really nice that you shared it with us. That would be an awsome gremlin to own! I can understand why they owner wouldnt sell it back but whats he plan to do with the car... Get to it "some Day"?
> > > > >  Great pics of the car then.... how bout some pics of it now? of your clone?
> > > > >  Davis
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> > > > > ____________ _________ _________ __
> > > > > From: "Plumpy72@"
<Plumpy72@>
> > > > > To: BaadAssGremlins@ yahoogroups. com
> > > > > Sent: Thu, March 11, 2010 8:36:01 PM
> > > > > Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] teages first gremlin pilot car 360 grrremlin feb 1970... [3 Attachments
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> > > > > ÂÂ
> > > > > Thanks for sharing the photos of the Grrremlin. I would have never known of of this car if it hadn't been for this.
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> > > > > It must have been a wicked ride........ ..
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> > > > > Rick Sipole
> > > > > Southeast Texas
> > > > > 1972 Gremlin
> > > > > 401/Turbo 400ÂÂ
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> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: phillip nicholas <uneedittwo48239@ yahoo.com>
> > > > > To: BaadAssGremlins@ yahoogroups. com
> > > > > Sent: Thu, Mar 11, 2010 2:42 pm
> > > > > Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] teages first gremlin pilot car 360 grrremlin feb 1970... [3 Attachments]
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> > > > > [Attachment( s) from phillip nicholas included below]
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> > > > > --- On Thu, 3/11/10, baadass73gremlin@ aol.com <baadass73gremlin@ aol.com> wrote:
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> >From: baadass73gremlin@ aol.com <baadass73gremlin@ aol.com>
> > > > > >Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] teages first gremlin pilot car 360 grrremlin feb 1970...
> > > > > >To: BaadAssGremlins@ yahoogroups. com
> > > > > >Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 3:26 PM
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> > > > > >ÂÂ
> > > > > >You have any pics? if you can't post them please send them to BaadAss73Gremlin@ aol.com and I'll post them for you.
> > > > > >Bart
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> > > > > >In a message dated 3/11/2010 1:32:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, uneedittwo48239@ yahoo.com writes:
> > > > > >ÂÂ
> > > > > >>that i know of this was the first gremlin made and the only one that came with a v8
360 race block for 1970 build, date feb for teage to drive it had machine heads and intake a/c power steering and larger front disc brakes but not power , 308 dana that later was changed to a 444 gear toms viland dad was freinds and worked with teage the car was to go to the crusher but got reprieved because tom asked for it or 2nd choice a machine , there are pics of the car in its currant state i took today also pics of it at the plant on plymouth road in michigan also the car had hand made letters grrr-emlin that were glue on, a trans am steering wheel i put a 401 4 speed in it around 1977 also was a pace car at mis it has a 1 off hood scoop and head liner a hornet dash cluster and tac hornet hood ,race car gas cap hornet hood side winder pipes 4 mufflers and was very fast came out of the hole straight i got married and had to sell i could not drive that car
> sane we
> > > > > are aloud 12 points in michigan i had 22 point i
have owned over 200 cars in my life and had more fun with that car than any of them that why i cloned it
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