I havent been to many car shows yet. Not due to heat but due to being busy. The temp here ranges in the 80s. Maybe that is why we have so many tourists from all over. Oh yeah thats why its called vacation land. Breeze from ocean on hot days feels nice. I plan on taking my Hornet to a weekend car show at the Boothbay Railway Village in Boothbay Maine. There will be a classic car parade Sunday afternoon. The museum is afew hour drive from where I live. Not too far from Owls Head Transportation Museum. I talked to a friend who volunteers at the railway village and does not remember seeing any AMCs there since he has been going there. I have been driving my car some this year. It just turned 81000 miles on it a week ago. I just replaced the original u-joints today and replaced the shocks I bought afew years ago at work because
they were leaking. I looked at the joints and they said Detroit on them. Of course I had to drive it on the 4th of July . Afew friends asked for rides in it. I would have had it in local parade but drove fire truck instead.
Hope to head to local AMC club show next month as well.
From: Terry Atkins <twa1950@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] 71 AMC SC/360 Hornet on KPRC Houston news (different!)
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 6:49 PM
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I believe every one over the age of 45 or so has either owned one, or some close friend or relative owed on and the all have a story. One reason I like going to car shows. I like the idea of making people happy with memories for a little while
Terry
--- On Mon, 7/11/11, Billy Strength <strengthb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Billy Strength <strengthb@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] 71 AMC SC/360 Hornet on KPRC Houston news (different!)
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 10:13 AM
That is true about getting a word in edgewise. When I take my Gremlin to car shows, Nobody is a stranger and they talk to me like they have known me all their lives. Their mother, sister, neice or their soon to be husband or wife used to have a Gremlin. I love it and I will keep my Gremlin just so I can meet and talk with all the nice people out there.
BS
From: Ron Roberts <holo_ron@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, July 10, 2011 9:39:26 PM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] 71 AMC SC/360 Hornet on KPRC Houston news (different!)
went to my local club's swapmeet this weekend wearing a Gremlin t-shirt. met two of the oldtimers (well, we're all oldtimers there in a trad club featuring Detroit Iron, pre-'65) who noticed my shirt and they proceeded to tell me about their Gremlins in the past and I couldn't get in a word edgewise about mine. .... didn't mind though.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)
From: Billy Strength <strengthb@xxxxxxxxx>
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] 71 AMC SC/360 Hornet on KPRC Houston news (different!)
Boy Howdy, getting old is HELL. During the months of July and August here in central Texas I park my Gremlin in the shed and do not even look for any car shows. The heat does not seem to bother the good ol Gremlin. but it takes 2 weeks for me to get over it.
BS
From: Terry Atkins <twa1950@xxxxxxxxx>
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sat, July 9, 2011 7:30:35 PM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] 71 AMC SC/360 Hornet on KPRC Houston news (different!)
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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:
From: Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] 71 AMC SC/360 Hornet on KPRC Houston news (different!)
To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx, baadassGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, July 9, 2011, 6:00 PM
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxwww.planethoustonamx.com
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