Posted on 04/06/2015 8:10:56 PM PDT by beaversmom
Video Link: 1975 AMC Gremlin: The Legend Revisited! - Ignition Ep. 129
If interested, check out the Pacer documentary posted down the thread. Good video, I thought.
If you have video in mind offhand, feel free to post. :)
Bad car on ice and in snow.
Cars today do look alike but they look good.
We had a Gremlin and a Hornet in the family when I was a little kid. Not my parents (the old man refused to drive anything that was not a Ford or Mercury product), but my older siblings.
Tell ya what, those AMC vehicles were ugly as sin, but they were reliable. My brother with the Gremlin abused the heck out of it. It got so bad at the end that when he shifted into 3rd gear, you could see the road under the car and rocks would fly up from the holes in the rubber around the stick shift. The thing never once failed to start, though.
The Hornet was a bit more problematic, as it was a bit long in the tooth when another brother bought it off a guy for $125. Still, it served valiantly for another five years and two owners before we sent it off to the boneyard.
Now, a truly lousy car? My sister’s Vega. Oh my sweet lord. Nothing ever worked right on that thing. And they all seemed to rust in the exact same spot - right along the driver’s side fender.
My ‘73 went *everywhere*.
Nothing stopped it.
Not mud, not rocks, not ruts and ditches, not ice and snow.
Looked hideous, ran forever.
And it was fast.
My ex traded it on a Rabbit and the gremlin ended up at Eddie’s Salvage in WV.
Two weeks later, my mom saw a kid driving it on I81 S towards Martinsburg.
The odometer broke at 243K, years before.
Hope that kid enjoyed it as much as I did.
Before someone yells at me, I know about Levi's gay agenda. Unheard of back then, (to my recollection), however.
“A female cousin of mine had a Levi’s Edition Gremlin. Remember those?”
I did not know about those. Found these links:
The Levi’s AMC Denim Gremlin – The Car that Wore the Pants
http://www.rawrdenim.com/2014/08/levis-amc-denim-gremlin-car-wore-pants/
Here’s one still going:
My Car Story with Lou Costabile 1973 American Motors AMC Gremlin X Levi’s Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI5e8qSbEgA
LEVI Gremlin X V8 LEVI’s Edition Collectible Muscle & Classic Car Denim Seats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj_dvRicDuM
The Ten Strangest Special Edition Cars
http://jalopnik.com/372171/the-ten-strangest-special-edition-cars
Suped-up 1973 Viper Green Gremlin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo6e_sg9xdI
AMC Gremlin Hot Rod Spotted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot-VYje20Vg
Gremlin Car Commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_7A1xtNbvY
Hot-rod purple Gremlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwUvUiHXGUY
...and a few years later Jimmy Carter's "generic food" began showing up on grocery store shelves.
Strange times indeed.
The 1970’s: the generation nobody bothered to name.
It’s a Chrysler motor.
That applies also to the Pacer.
Now, a truly lousy car? My sister’s Vega. Oh my sweet lord. Nothing ever worked right on that thing. And they all seemed to rust in the exact same spot - right along the driver’s side fender.
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Vegas rusted in the showroom.
I always wondered why people jacked up the back end of cars like that.
Then it was explained to me...
The car goes faster because it’s always going downhill.
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