“...AMC Gremlin..”
Wow, I’d forgotten those... they were those little compact hatchbacks that looked like some hacked off the back with an axe.
Bringing back memories...
RE Volare: My mother had a 1976 Volare, with the 318 V8 in it. Not a race car, but it moved pretty good with that engine. It had all the luxury refinements inside. Her first “nice car” as she put it. The Valiant that we had prior (which I wrecked) was an econobox - but it had the push-button transmission on the dash!!!
Like I posted in my first of the thread:
“...and my oldest boy just bought a 77 Dodge aspen 318 that is being seen this year in the show ‘The Americans’. the guy who rents them to the studio decided to sell this one....”
I have short video clips from the show.
It is cool to have this as new shows with the car is still coming out. 2 scenes from last weeks show.
The 318 has plenty of power. Though my son is looking to possibly put a 360 which should bolt right up.
I had multiple cars with push bottom shifting. Maybe as many as a dozen. Been driving since 1965. Had a few with 3 on the tree too.
The torqueflite were ‘bullet proof’ but they weren’t ‘Vaquero bullet t proof’ as my poor old father might have told you while he was still alive. His trannys were often destroyed by my propensity of doing nasty hole shots with his family cars.