I know of atleast 10 gremlins from woodville tx to jasper tx, down to visor tx to silsbee tx, in that square. Would have been 11 but Im sure the extra one is gone. I have 4 of them 70, 74, 77 & 77 plus a 79 spirit. Richard
Sorry Eddie I sent this to you also.
----- Reply message -----From: "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, Jul 29, 2013 9:02 am Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: How many Gremlins still running & how many AMCs left To: <BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Gremlins & Hornets were throwaway cars. Whether a heralded SC/360 with low production or a Hornet AMX or Gremlin Bicentennial Edition or 304-X -Levis. They were like a lot of cars then, built to last X amount of time. And the Gremlin/Hornet Series did not get the undercoatings that other AMC's got like Ambassador or Rebel. So they rotted quicker.
And like many newer cars today in 2013, they crater after X amount of miles and cheaper to replace them than fix them. Good example is the pick a part yards filled with Toyotas, hondas, BMW, Audi, Mitsubushi, Ford, GM, Saturns ect built ten years ago or more, or 100,000 miles or more. Rows upon rows of them waiting to be recycled. Compare it to computers or televisions or cell phones. My Toshiba tv went out, and only was on/off push switch on the 32 inch tv. I took it to have repairs, and guy said 'why don't you go get modern flat screen for cheaper, as fixing this is $250'. So I threw away my tv. Good thing I don't do that with AMC. Computers same way, go buy new computer at Best Buy & has 365 day warranty & on 366th day, craters with blue screen hard drive failure.
Gremlins & Hornets didn't survive well. It's a two edged sword here also as those that remain, there has been a expolsion of reproduction parts available for these cars in last 15-20 years as technology continues to evolve, so a good thing, more parts, stuff many people parted the cars out in 1970s/80s for, now reproduced, so level of many of the cars we like to restore..level of cars has gone up with better examples on those people wish to 'fix up' or 'restify' or 'restore'.
Ironically there are sort of only two cars people remember in 2013 in era when many people can't even spell or text the word 'amc'. Gremlin & Hornet, many people remember them, not so Ambassador, Spirit, AMX, even Rambler, that's fine though.
How many are left? Do online search for 'how many amcs left' and a interesting file comes up off my site, it is A OLD FILE too. Gremlins? I would guess less than 10,000 in any condition from concours to parts cars. Rust & Apathy & society's throwaway mentality, whether baby in trash dumpsert, cell phones, plastic and glass, cigarette butts tossed out windows, or even the millions of animals put down in shelters each year. Too bad. But a lot of use like to fix these old cars up. Many of you were recyclers with these old AMCs before reclycling became 'cool' you know. Eddie Stakes Planet Houston AMX 713.464.8825 days eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.planethoustonamx.com
----- Original Message -----From: "Terry Atkins" <twa1950@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 8:37 PM Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] How many Gremlins still running.
We were talking about this the other night. Maybe you can give us an educated guess Eddie. We know there were a little over 600,000 made but we were just wondering how many are left and how many of them are running. I guess about 30,000 running and maybe that many are more rusting away. Another guy said he would be surprised if there were 10,000. I really don't have an idea. Terry
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