Where are you getting that heat shielding for the shifter cable? I need
some for my project. Went thru 3 cables already!
A 401 and you didn't go n get it ? I think I am gonna faint.
Davis
Plywoodchicken
<petriew@xxxx> wrote:
I
decided to attend my first show with my Grem. Admission was free
and it
was in my home town, so why the heck not?
I almost didn't make it to
the show because my shifter cable had
melted thru the night before (too
close to the hedders) and wouldn't
shift the tranny. I had to jury-rig
it and managed to get it "good
enough" to make it the 40 miles either
way. I now have a replacement
cable and was tipped off to an orange
rubber tubing that is lined
with asbestos. You can put your finger
inside the tube and hold it
over a lighter without even feeling the
heat. Tubing is only about
$2 a foot. I think I'm gonna sheath my cable
in that stuff...
The first guy that walked up to me after got the car
parked thanked
me for bringing a Gremlin "Cuz you just don't see them
anymore". We
chatted for a few minutes and he went on to tell me about
the friend
that used to have one (with a 304).
I had many such
comments and was pleased to see even the younger
crowd (under 21yrsold)
actually know what a Gremlin was and ask me
all kinds of questions.I'm
sure its the first one they had seen in
real life (as opposed to
McDonald's commercials)
Another guy came up and told me about the
Gremlin he used to have
with a 401 in it. He no longer had the car,but
thought he had the
engine laying around on the farm. I told him to
gather up his parts
and sell them on Ebay cuz he could be sitting on a
small gold mine.
Another guy and his buddy came up and he was really
excited. "They
used these Gremlins to build Race cars with" he saidto
his pal. I
nodded and chatted with them about it and told him that
people still
do that, just harder to find them now. He was pumped about
the
subject. That was cool :)
I was the only AMC there (not
surprisingly) out of about 140 cars.
The funniest thing I heard was
some guy walk by with his buddy (these
guys were probably late 40s and
should have known better).
He said "Oh, an AMC. That's probably a
Javelin. They came out with
the Javelin first and then the
AMX".
I couldn't believe my ears! I laughed out loud and he looked at
me
kind of funny as he walked away... I didn't correct him.
Only
had one guy say he wouldn't buy it even if it was for sale for
$500. I
wasn't there at the time, my wife told me about it. Kinda
glad I wasn't
there for that comment cuz I would probably have been
very unkind
towards whatever crapheap he drove to the show (probably
a '68 Rustang
Coupe.. one of MANY that were there.. bleech, get
original already.. get
an AMC!)
Anyway, just thought I'd share a little bit of my
experience. I've
got one other car show to go to this summer (more of a
cruise night)
and then the Grem goes to the farm for the winter. Not
before I do
some Tuning and Testing all over the city,
heheh.
Sorry for the lack of brevity. I'll shorten up the next
one.
PS: Oh yeah.. I posted some pics of the car (and me) at the
show.
Check them out in my Fatpillowman
folder.
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