So Embarrassing

Ricci.Wright

I just had a youtube vid play while I was wrapping a gun to ship. It was about a 1976 AMC Gremlin and I remembered that I thought it was a pretty cool car back then.   

Grasshopper

 They were so ugly  they were cute as a woman at midnight.

SW0320

That car contained my cute women.  That is the car my wife owned when we’re going out.  It was brown and was a standard.  

hillbille

 had a buddy who had one, one winter we were driving across the back parking lot of the local mall, after a few beers. It had snowed quite a bit the day before and there were large piles of snow 20 foot tall or better all around the lot. we got the bright idea to drive through one, must have hit it at about 30 miles an hour, it was froze solid next thing we knew we were looking at the sky, must have landed 20 feet on other side of the snow pile bent the frame right at the front doors.  He drove it another year or so before it finally gave out, I think my face print is still in the dash...........

montanajoe

Horse Plains Drifter

We used to campaign Gremlin on our local dirt track.

Ditch-Runner

 one of my first "true girl friends " her sister had  one so they do bring back a lot of memories I remember some putting  V8 engines in them back in the  day .. they sorta looked like a small  AMC  . AMX  if you remember the two seat  (no back seat ) hod rod 

Brookwood

I actually liked many of AMC's products back then.  Owned a '75 Matador exactly like the one in this photo. I even wanted a Pacer, after watching John Denver driving one in that movie "Oh God".  They were very spacious on the inside with good outward  driving visibility through all that glass!  The faux woodgrain models were quite attractive to me anyway!    

iceracerx

Flying Clay Disk said:

Ditch-Runner said:

 one of my first "true girl friends " her sister had  one so they do bring back a lot of memories I remember some putting  V8 engines in them back in the  day .. they sorta looked like a small  AMC  . AMX  if you remember the two seat  (no back seat ) hod rod 

During the 80's in college I had a part time job with this guy doing service plumbing.  Went out on a call one time for this old guy's house.  Little job turned into a big job.  The older fellow said he couldn't afford it, so Eric (the company owner) said we'd work it out somehow.  We felt bad for the guy, and his plumbing had been badly jacked up by some other company who'd ripped him off.  We fixed it right.  So when we got done Eric told him there would be no charge.  The older fellow wasn't having any of that!  He was bound and determined to pay.

At one point the older fellow asked us to follow him out to his barn.  (and yes, this is the classic "car in the barn" story).  In the barn was a car covered in a big sheet.  This guy pulls the cover off and it's a showroom new 1969 AMC AMX.  "Take it!", he says.  Eric tells him there's no way we're taking his car, the job was only a few hundred bucks.  "TAKE IT!", he says..."I've got no use for the damn thing anymore and I want it gone!"  Eric went back and forth with the "Are you sure?" thing, but the guy just insisted we take that car as payment.  So we went to go get a trailer to load the car up.

While loading up the car we got...the rest of the story.  The car had belonged to his kid, but the kid got mixed up in drugs, he defaulted on the car loan and his dad paid it off for him, but told him he couldn't have it back until he straightened up.  The kid enlisted in the Army and got sent to Vietnam.  Came back worse than he left.  Kid took off and he never saw him again.  He'd kept that car there, waiting for him to come back.  I guess he figured 15 years was enough waiting.

Changed all the fluids, put in a new battery, turned it over a few times with the plug wires disconnected, changed the oil again...and fired it up!  Ran like a raped ape!  That car would do a 6 sec 1/4 mile at 100+ right out of the box!  Black on black, and like a brand new car inside and out.  Man, that was one hell of a score!  Eric kept that car as long as I knew him, and it always turned heads.

True story too.

A 6 second 1/4 mile pass @ 100(+)???!!!!????    Your math is a bit off.  True story

iceracerx

Flying Clay Disk said:

Yes, I'm afraid you are correct.  Sorry.

I thought it was 6 seconds, but I know it was 100mph+...so what is that in seconds?  I must be mistaken.  I think it was 101, or 102...I'm not an expert on 1/4 mile times.

I was wrong...I'm sorry.

It's all good.  I flubbed up a post about Ford v Ferrari the other day.   We're all getting old.
100 mph ET is approx. 13.6 sec
102 mph ET is approx. 13.4 sec
227 mph ET is approx. 6.0 sec

Where's Dennis Neilson when I need him?

jimdeere

That’s a cool story, fcd. 

medic07

I drove a 1974 Gremlin with the Levi Denim package in high school.  258 CI straight six with an automatic transmission.
It started out as my oldest brothers car when he joined the Air Force, then my parents bought it off him in 77.  That car survived two wrecks (both hit from behind), kids and grandkids driving it and numerous cross country trips to Arizona and up to Michigan.  
It finally just quit running somewhere around 2002.  No engine overhaul ever and just had the torque converter replaced at about the 15 year mark.  Couldn't even guess at the miles that was on it.
Ugly but man that thing was stout.

toad67

Is the AMC/AMX also known as the javelin with the 401 motor? If so, yep, they were neat cars. Learned how to do a regular, and power brake burn out on one..