[BaadAssGremlins] Re: how hot is it? (was: 71 AMC SC/360 Hornet on news)

It has been a brutal summer and still long way to go. You sort of get used to it. I have ECKO oven thermometers in several of my AMCs...this is one on my 72 Ambassador's dash:

http://www.planethoustonamx.com/Photo_Gallery_AMC/aug2010.jpg

taken last year....one in my 74 Javelin hit 155 recently on 98 degree day...the record was my black/black/black 78 Pacer with limo tint....it hit 171 & 172 degrees inside several times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqPE2IeiYhs

I baked cookies on dash as a joke and posted some photos on old amc-list years ago. The cookies were 1/2 cooked but edible & you could see how they actually cooked, and rose!

But you are correct.....heat affects attendance at car shows. It was 111 in Wichita Falls, TX today, 102 in Dallas, 104 or something like that in OK City....just....not good car show weather no matter how much Icees, bottled water, sodas and other refreshments the meet has....just too damned hot.

I may add if it is a judged meet.....the ground temp easily 140+ degrees. So if you a judge, you need something to lay on!

If...and when.....I ever redo (it still looks awesome) my 68 Rebel convertible 'Machine' interior, which originally was a olive color seats (brain fart by AMC) and I changed it to darker green seats in 1987,

http://www.planethoustonamx.com/Photo_Gallery_AMC/i10_headache.jpg

http://www.planethoustonamx.com/Photo_Gallery_AMC/200mph.jpg

(brain fart by me) I will go with lighter seats. It is too damned hot for a convertible. If I do drive this car (June was HOTTEST June in Houston recorded history!!!) but if I do drive this car, I take some tortillas, pico de gallo, queso, as my big ass is the fajitas stuck to the seat when you try to get up leave some shank!

Eddie Stakes
713.464.8825
eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.planethoustonamx.com

----- Original Message -----

From: Terry Atkins

To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I got a question for you how do you handle that heat. I have been dying all summer long and me going to car shows has been a big bust Hell it might as well be the middle of winter. It rained all during April and May then it turned to 90+ since then. I have been to a grand total of two car shows this summer. I have had a few people call me up to see if I have died. I believe I could handle it if they had them in parks with shade trees but most of them are in the middle of an asphalt parking lot. It use to not bother me. It is hell getting old.

Terry

--- On Sat, 7/9/11, Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is my 71 SC/360 Hornet on Houston's Channel 2 news before 4th of July....I CHANGED
the video on you tube because I didn't catch all the comments after weather when one of
the news anchors, Nefertiti Jaquez, told weatherman Khambrel Marshall "he would look good
in that car!" and Khambrel said that "any American would be proud to be behind wheel of
that car" or something like that, but one of my sons caught that before I deleted it from
TIVO (was deleting mess of Spongebob crap!)....so rerecorded it, and posted it on youtube
it is about one minute total:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKr6b4tEZl4

he would later mention it again at 10:00pm newscast that is there also.
Eddie Stakes
713.464.8825
eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.planethoustonamx.com

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