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Post by Captain Awesome on May 12, 2018 13:12:02 GMT -8
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Post by 69Rebel on May 12, 2018 13:54:15 GMT -8
I'm sure glad that I don't restore AMCs for the concourse at Pebble Beach. Wait a minute. Would they even allow an AMC on the concourse?
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Post by 71sc360 on May 13, 2018 3:28:56 GMT -8
Either way, whether your showing or racing it just comes down to "bragging rights". The concours guys want to be able to say they have the best restored car and the racers want to say they have the fastest car. They both can sink a ton of money in their cars to make it do what they want it to do for them. I appreciate both of those interests as long as it's AMC. I wish I had the money and the know how to make an AMC run the way some of you guys do on the track (I think it'd be a lot more fun than doing the show thing) but I don't so I just stick to the easy way out for me...., make the car the best car I can and just enjoy it. I don't need to be the most correct, or the fastest. For me it's just about being there and having fun doing it...
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Post by Captain Awesome on May 13, 2018 4:09:50 GMT -8
I have nothing but junk, but have fun with it. What I dislike about this ad is, it's like the Chevy guys tagging everything "Corvette" for extra money. So in AMC, tag it SCRambler, like anyone from Ellwood City or New Castle would, so you can get $450 out of a carb that normally sells for $20-$50 at any swap meet.
BUT, if 69 AMX stick carbs or whatever are bringing $450 for a crusty core, then my point is moot.
as far as crusty, the outside of this one isn't bad, but it could be really ugly when you open it up.
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Post by Captain Awesome on May 13, 2018 4:24:44 GMT -8
Need one of these for "SC" "Corvette" etc. lol
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Post by spud on May 13, 2018 6:22:42 GMT -8
A brag is a brag. I have a street driven javelin. I drive it. Where and when I want. I hate to see it wrecked but in this place the way people drive it will. It’s kinda shitty. But it’s the only one on the street on a daily basis in a metro area of 15 million fenderbashers. There my brag. I’m dumb enough to wheel a 50 year old relic.
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Post by drdrunk on May 13, 2018 14:02:33 GMT -8
I marvel at cars restored to concours level. I have nothing but respect for the guy that goes to the lengths they do in search of perfection. Fretting over if you have the correct lower alternator bolt and getting all your interior screws to point the same way is dedication I just don't have. Paying $450 for a used carb just to have certain numbers on it and with no clue to it's insides condition is way over my rank and pay grade... Hell I don't think I could bring myself to charge that kind of coin for one even if it came off the SC XLT Oleg Cassini 470 stroker Pope mobile....
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Post by Captain Awesome on May 13, 2018 20:03:50 GMT -8
Yep, at the end of the day it's just another POS AFB to me. But if I were a Concours guy, that date code and etc better be undeniable, unargueable, and come with a hand job from a Female hand (most gAyMCers would consider a 58 y/o guy's hand "good enough") for $450. Not "it's good enough" Fah-koff wif dat
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Post by Captain Awesome on May 13, 2018 20:31:09 GMT -8
I've been searching for a factory 750 AVS for my 440. Over the years I've found a few, cores are always about $100-150 tops. I'm too cheap. I pass on them. I'm not using the engine right now, so I have time.
Most don't seem to know they came in 625 and 750. 340s and 383 HPs got the 625, 440s got the 750. Me as a dumb shit kid, broke the mounting tab off my 750. A Holley engineer, who had his own Speed shop, ordered me another Carter AVS. Even he thought an AVS was an AVS other than auto or stick linkage. So I ended up getting a 625. I wondered why my 440 was such an insta-turd.... anywho, fast forward today trying to correct my error, but being a Rambler guy about it.
I like the AVS, it's secondary adjustments are easy for a Simpleton such as myself. Far superior to the POS AFB.
Now the 625 AVSs I find are from $60 to 150 cores. A few years ago I was checking out an AVS core, saw it was a 625 and was about to put it down till the guys said, "can you use that? 20 bucks"
For 20 smackers, hell yeah. It's a 383 HP (Magnum!!!!!!!) carb. Now we're talking. It went in my carb cabinet and shall sit there incase needed complete, or for parts.
Yet I continue the search for my $50 750
Shit, last swap meet my buddy scored a nice 750 Double Pumper for $45. Guy wanted 50, but he had to beat him down. I got a fresh rebuilt 750 DP for free, so worse comes to worse, it will be used instead.
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