[BaadAssGremlins] Re: Woodward Dream Cruise

["bmperjack" <bmperjack@xxxxxxxxx>]

i bought my first gremlin off a friend after my first divorce, fell in love. it was a 77 w/258 alum intake and a 650 holley, competition orange i beat every big block in town from light to light...lol. took a lot of ribbing "the great pumkin" amongst other things. hated parting with it but when you get older there were a lot of cars i wish somehow i could have kept (ive had some classics, but then it was just a car...sad). now a days the scrappers are all over buying cars out of fence rows, barns or downright stealin em some of the ones that probly been crushed makes you want to just take a crowbar to most of em. reliving my younger days i picked one up 3 yrs ago for 250 bucks and felt like i had found the holy grail..lol.. 74 primered and nasty but all there. my son made som vids and put em on youtube..geesh its ugly but he thought it was cool. i got laid off few months back and decided this was the year to git-er-dun,   its still rough round the edges but its my grem...sorry for bleedin out here but just got me thinkin--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Terry Atkins <twa1950@...> wrote:
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> My last post was getting long but the second reason I don't think you see Gremlins is the cost and trouble to restore one. Over the years I lost count of the number of people who told me they had a Gremlin in their garage that they were restoring but I have never seen any of their cars. I have had a bunch come up to me and told me I told you a couple of years ago I had one but I gave up on it. Most of them bought them cheap thinking it was going to be a cheap to restore and found out in a hurry it wasn't. Then you had the few car people who got one then figured the cost of restoring and then looking at the value after they were done and ended up buying a Mustang instead. Then I don't think Gremlin's are car people cars. Maybe if you have one with a 401 in it all tricked out it might be but I have never seen one I don't know. If you guys would have been with me and put up with all the laughs and jokes the first 7 or 8 years I went to car shows you 
>  probably would have quit going. I had a running joke with my kids that I was going to bring my 38 and shoot the first SOB that laugh at it. Now the laughs and jokes have gone away. The car people accept and appreciate it because it is unique but when a crowd gathers around it they aren't car people. They are people off the street telling the stories about the one they had 40 years ago. I still don't feel after all these years I am a member of car people club but I still enjoy the smiles I put on the people faces. The again mine is a cheap toy. I paid nothing for it. If I add ever thing up I don't think I have a grand in it. The tags and taxes cost me $1.95 and while I complain when I pay it the full cover insurance cost me $70 every six months. I still get a big kick when I am parked at a show and my whole amount I spent on my car to get it ready this year was $75 to get it detailed and I have a group of people standing around looking at it while the
>  guy in his 65 Mustang that he spent three years restoring and $40,000 and on it is getting ignored. Of course I have the only Gremlin and they had to pass 20 of the Mustang clones just to get to mine.
> Terry
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