Shadow papa do I have a car for you..

[smlobx]

@ShadowsPapa I know you like all things AMC and this car came up on www.bringatrailer.com so I thought I’d let you know so you could get in on the bidding!

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[ShadowsPapa]

Love the color, always liked the orange with the white stripes - but always preferred the earlier years and the hocky-stick stripes.

That car would work in Iowa, but some states - I question that they removed the emissions stuff............ I guess I don't know the cut-off year for emissions in CA, CO and some other places.

IMO, pushing the envelope on price.
Seems a bit high for non-stock but I've not tracked later model year Gremlin prices. So - let the market determine that.

Nice, but - why the springs on the shocks, some questions I have.
I should ask my friend in Indiana what he got for his pristine properly restored 71 - it won top honors in AMO a few years back.
I think he did some swapping so might not be a fair comparison.

My second AMX, and my first wife's Gremlin - and heading to Denver in 1980.

 

[shokker70]

Love the color, always liked the orange with the white stripes - but always preferred the earlier years and the hocky-stick stripes.

That car would work in Iowa, but some states - I question that they removed the emissions stuff............ I guess I don't know the cut-off year for emissions in CA, CO and some other places.

IMO, pushing the envelope on price.
Seems a bit high for non-stock but I've not tracked later model year Gremlin prices. So - let the market determine that.

Nice, but - why the springs on the shocks, some questions I have.
I should ask my friend in Indiana what he got for his pristine properly restored 71 - it won top honors in AMO a few years back.
I think he did some swapping so might not be a fair comparison.

My second AMX, and my first wife's Gremlin - and heading to Denver in 1980.

Pretty cool. We had a couple of these back in the mid to late 70's. My stepdad owned a salvage yard. Plan was to fix them up for me and my brother one day to drive. They divorced and it never happened, but I still remember the cars. One black, one white if I recall. May have to pick one up one day.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

My second car - and first Javelin, a caravelle blue 68 base model. I talked the guy into selling it to me. He came to the shop I worked at - there was also a gas station there. I saw him pull up and asked him what he'd take for it. He wasn't interested. I hit him up every week for a month, he finally said ok.
(Note Dad's 68 Valiant parked behind my car)

 

[Puttyandnapalm]

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[Rex3rd]

I've always had a soft spot for old cars. I collected alot of them when I was a kid in hopes of restoring them but I got older got married had kids and time slipped away from me. Still have my babies but there sitting in buildings waiting for me to retire to work on them or maybe when my son gets old enough we can work on them. List of restore projects include. 1978 Pontiac firebird 1969 Buick Riviera. 1969 Opel gt and 1971 Opel gt. I also have my 1993 Nissan pickup that I've had since I was a kid that needs to be put back together (fuel pump went out...I've had a new pump for 5 months but no time to fix it) and a 2006 Pontiac GTO started having overheating issues not long after I bought it that I haven't had time to fix. I put new tires on her not too long ago and they will probably need to be replaced from sitting so long.. I miss my projects but wife kids and job comes first

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I've always had a soft spot for old cars. I collected alot of them when I was a kid in hopes of restoring them but I got older got married had kids and time slipped away from me. Still have my babies but there sitting in buildings waiting for me to retire to work on them or maybe when my son gets old enough we can work on them. List of restore projects include. 1978 Pontiac firebird 1969 Buick Riviera. 1969 Opel gt and 1971 Opel gt. I also have my 1993 Nissan pickup that I've had since I was a kid that needs to be put back together (fuel pump went out...I've had a new pump for 5 months but no time to fix it) and a 2006 Pontiac GTO started having overheating issues not long after I bought it that I haven't had time to fix. I put new tires on her not too long ago and they will probably need to be replaced from sitting so long.. I miss my projects but wife kids and job comes first

One of the first cars I ever replaced a clutch on was an Opel. Neat little car - owned by a guy who worked in the same hardware store I did. I always wondered what he was doing there as something told me he was some sort of genius - like he was trying to escape to a quieter, slower life and play things down. There wasn't much he didn't know about in some way and his words were always waay up there.
I wonder if he wasn't like the college professor I worked with - a comp sci professor who actually helped HP develop print drivers - he came to work in the same place I did - CCC (Compressor Controls) doing basic support and writing simple code. He said he needed a break, wanted a normal life for a while, tired of living on Snickers and Mountain Dew to keep up.

Anyway, the Opel was my first clutch jobs.
Riviera - wow, haven't seen one of those for a while. That was a taste of things to come - although in a much smaller platform. If I recall, it was a luxury car - at least to me!

I dropped out of the hobby and cars for a short time - had to give up the AMXs and Gremlins and such for family cars. Kids took money! (and time and attention)

 

[j.o.y.ride]

(I know not the same, but close enough for fun)

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