Resurrecting the Rambler

[Bob Emery]

Good job!

[Greg Reimer 7376]

Now, howl is that. The greatest achievement is that you did it yourself.Nothing like giving life to something like that.

[Pinballer]

Thank you all, gentlemen, I feel like I'm *almost* a part of the S/SS club now that I have a running car. Much refinement will have to happen though, and I didn't waste much time---an order went into Jegs last night for some more parts!
I will admit to a couple of things: Yes, I did get a great wave of satisfaction when I started it up and gingerly drove the car out onto the open road to check out the running gear, knowing that even though it has been a lot of hard sweaty work for almost a solid year essentially making three cars into one, it was going to be worth it to me whether this race car ever bombs the index or not. And I will also admit that my wife asked me what the big ****-eating grin on my face was all about when I got back into the house after the maiden voyage.

Bringing things back from the dead seems to be the nature of my whole life. Clear back in '73 when I was 17 years old and in my senior year of high school I started reviving a thoroughly vandalized '67 Corvette convertible I had bought for $800 with my burger flipping money, then later on I got into all sorts of other muscle cars that were usually down and out, then pinballs, and at times various other assorted "treasures" that other people had long given up on. Even our house qualifies for that terminology, it was a mess when we bought it.
And I'm not so naive that I don't realize that a ton more work is on the horizon for this AMX to make it any good. In fact, the vast majority and most costly of the work will begin right now.

[Greg Reimer 7376]

Originally Posted by Greg Reimer 7376

Now, howl is that. The greatest achievement is that you did it yourself.Nothing like giving life to something like that.

Oops! That was supposed to read How Cool is that! I hate it when the computer corrects me and gets it wrong.

[GarysZ24]

Nice car....have you figured what class in Stock Eliminator to run it in (that is if you're going to do such, which would be very cool), because I like to see against the norm race cars, like yours and Norman Warling's '62 Catalina!

[Pinballer]

Gary, this one was specifically built to be a Class car, and the initial thinking was to run it in T/SA, but we'll have to see where the test data leads us. The additional weight I'm forced to put in to make T might kill it so bad I'll have to leave the weight out and move up a class.Too early to predict whether it will end up in R, T or U at this point.

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Pinballer

Gary, this one was specifically built to be a Class car, and the initial thinking was to run it in T/SA, but we'll have to see where the test data leads us. The additional weight I'm forced to put in to make T might kill it so bad I'll have to leave the weight out and move up a class.Too early to predict whether it will end up in R, T or U at this point.

The car used to be Q,R, and T. It was a natural R car.

[Pinballer]

Just to clarify for some, at the present time the 79 Spirit 258 2 bbl 6 cylinder car does fall into R naturally. (18.56). As we all know, you can adjust up and down one class.
The 79 AMX model with the same 258 6 cylinder and 2 bbl, based off the same car with the addition of that option package, comes in as a natural T car. (19.38)