Re: [BaadAssGremlins] re: Cleaning AMC rambler gas tank

I retired from 37 years in the cable tv industry and in the '80s ran the operations for several cities on the borders of L.A. and Orange counties. After 1st year learned that those armed in Maywood like to target the cables and told the on-call techs on New years day to enjoy their breakfast and maybe the Rose Parade/take care of other calls B4 they went to Maywood to repair the damage. Customers were all back on same day, but I was never wrong; all gunshots, undeserving of instant response...

"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: Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 4:44 PM
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] re: Cleaning AMC rambler gas tank

Yup...crackheads in that area who would have mistook the gas tank for copper wiring! I've often said that if ANY country in the world wants to ever invade the US.....I want them to start with that neighborhood in SW Houston surrounded by Fondren, Westpark, Gessner and Richmond Avenue.

On Halloween eve and New Years Eve and 4th of July eve, it was common for people, myself included to go put cars up. I would take many of mine to my warehouse 1 mile away. The reason why is there is more artillery in that one square mile area than many countries like Switzerland, Netherlands or Uzbekistan. On those nights eves mentioned above you could hear gang memebers 'talking' to each other thru gunfire...boom, boom, boom.....boom/.boom then answer BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM/.BOOM then another 'answer' mile away crack, crack, crack, crack/ccrack and so forth. It was incredible. 90% of these people brought celebratory gunfire (like we see in Libya now!) with them from whereever they came from.

And those bullets had to fall somewhere, the old what goes up, must come down, so not uncommon to go out to car next day and find finger sized hole from something that fell from sky, guess I need to put those photos on my site also. Even cops quit responding to gunfire in that area!

Eddie Stakes
713.464.8825
eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.planethoustonamx.com

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From: Terry Atkins

You know gang if the right people came along while you were doing that at a car wash you could have been in a heap of trouble.

Terry

From: Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Warning dumbazz award coming thru! I forgot to mention something I did years ago in 1980s,
that is pull a gas tank off a AMX in sunshine. The car was this 69 'catfish amx' note hood
fiberglassed down:

http://www.planethoustonamx.com/Photo_Gallery_AMX/customizedamx.jpg

and the "amc grassy knoll" near my Gang Garden Apartments:

http://www.planethoustonamx.com/Photo_Gallery_My/notaparade.jpg

It was only about 90 degrees that day, and I had pulled the gas tank off to go clean it.
Drained off remainider of gas and laid the gas tank in grass near where I was working.
While under car I looked over at tank and saw haze near neck....realizing the sun was
heating up my car bomb quickly and the fumes were emanating from the neck! So before a
passing car took out a square mile area or created fieball scorching 5 Texas counties, I
picked up the tank gingerly, making sure it didn't scrape on anything...and carried it to
shade where it was fine. Then went and blew it out AT NIGHT at the car wash around
corner.....so gave myself a dumbazz award that day to go with AMC logoed thong.
Eddie Stakes
713.464.8825
eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.planethoustonamx.com

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"I agree with Eddie Stakes on the gas tank cleaning. I took mine down and washed it out. I
then (may sound funny) put rocks in the tank and shook the crap out of it to break up any
loose rust, etc. I then took it to car wash and cleaned good with and without the rocks. I
put alittle fuel in to help capture the remaining water. Pour out gas/water mix, install
tank. I haven't had a problem for about 8 years."