Sunroof Gremlin gets the hood raised, finally...

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 but only for some show & tell, and to pull the distributor. A friend wants 
to build up an early Gremlin for racing, and needs the head casting #. I 
pulled the distributor out to compare it to the '81 GMC Van I-6 HEI unit I 
bought, it matchs good! My friend said get a new Jeep dist. gear for it, as 
the old gear wouldn't fit right ( and it's worn out besides ). I'll either 
use it in my Pacer to replace the Motorcrap unit, or put it in the Sunroofer 
to try to fire it, as the old unit is rather rusted up from sitting uncapped 
in the weather. I may try to clean it up some to see if it's salvageable, but 
that's another day's project. 
I told John about some specs I had for 67-81 AMC engines he wanted badly, 
so he came over, and we took the valve cover off so he could write down the 
head # to check it againest some specs he wanted to check out. He really 
liked that Petersen's Engine data book I had, it covers alot of American cars 
and trucks, with lots of specs on the engines, cams, valves, tolerances for 
each, etc. He was amazed, as he hadn't gotten as much information in any one 
place from other sources. I loaned him the book to make copies of the 
pages.It's about 600-800 pages of nothing but car info. I also got several 
books in the mail today from a purchase made searching on WWW.bibliofind.com 
for used AMC tech books. I got a '67-74 Matador and Rebel Chiltons book, and 
a '71-79 Clymer Gremlin/Pacer/Hornet book, with electrical diagrams and 
everything. Will add those to my growing AMC library of books and tech 
manuals. :) Hope everyone had a great week, lets let the AMC's roll this 
weekend!

Jerry Casper
'79 Pacer
'78 Gremlin GT