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[PaulC]

Originally Posted by suginami

All along I had a hunch that you were an AMC man.

We had a new '74 Hornet as well. Sticker price was $2,909. Overpriced...

[jlomon]

Originally Posted by PaulC

We had a new '74 Hornet as well. Sticker price was $2,909. Overpriced...

Wow, your dad and my dad had the same taste in cars. I remember a brown 74 Hornet and a beige Plymouth Caravelle with the slant 6.

[suginami]

Originally Posted by PaulC

We had a new '74 Hornet as well. Sticker price was $2,909. Overpriced...

Funny. I was at the Toys for Tots Mercedes car show put on by by Gerhard in Huntington Beach last weekend.

One of the guys had a perfectly restored '67 250 SL.

Next to his car was a guy with a Bricklin for sale (had gullwing style doors), which was for sale.

We got to talking about the Bricklins. Some had AMC engines and some had 351 Windsor Ford V8's. This one had a 351.

The fellow with the 250 SL said he bought a brand new Javelin in '74 with the big V8. Said it was the best car he ever had, and regretted selling it.

[PaulC]

Originally Posted by jlomon

Wow, your dad and my dad had the same taste in cars. I remember a brown 74 Hornet and a beige Plymouth Caravelle with the slant 6.

This was actually an aunt's car, and pretty much was a bare-bones model, with automatic, power steering and AM radio, and that was it. It had a wheezy 100 hp 232 c.i. 6 cylinder and pretty much ran out of power at 70 mph. It was a fairly new car when I drove it one day and the brakes failed on the interstate. I found this out when I was performing my patented 60 mph entrance onto a 25 mph exit ramp. My spinchter muscles finally relaxed around 1979...

[PaulC]

Originally Posted by suginami

Funny. I was at the Toys for Tots Mercedes car show put on by by Gerhard in Huntington Beach last weekend.

One of the guys had a perfectly restored '67 250 SL.

Next to his car was a guy with a Bricklin for sale (had gullwing style doors), which was for sale.

We got to talking about the Bricklins. Some had AMC engines and some had 351 Windsor Ford V8's. This one had a 351.

The fellow with the 250 SL said he bought a brand new Javelin in '74 with the big V8. Said it was the best car he ever had, and regretted selling it.

The local Bricklin dealer was also our local Pontiac-Buick dealer, and I recall sitting in more than a few Bricklins in the showroom. The early seventie's Javelin/AMX models were a very decent alternative to GM/Ford pony cars. I alway thought that the first-generation AMX was one of the better-looking cars on the road in its day.

[suginami]

Originally Posted by PaulC

I alway thought that the first-generation AMX was one of the better-looking cars on the road in its day.

That's exactly what we were saying.

[Since66]

Real BMW fanatics maintain that the only REAL BMW was the 2002.


And amongst them, there exists a lunatic fringe of them that say, no, the ONLY REAL BMW is the 2002tii.

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