From Laudable:
1970 AMC Gremlin
This two-door hatchback was an economy car, and that’s about the best thing we can say about it.
Created by the American Motors Company, it was actually a pretty powerful little car.
College students loved the bizarre design.
My very first car was Pacer. Not my choice. There’s nothing good to say about that car either.
don’t know where else to put this…aol will not allow conservative posts, i can’t post a comment, so i assume i’ve been censored…they are incredibly biased…really pisses me off that these sites are getting away with this….
My first car was a 1960 Morris Minor 1000 convertible. The electrical system was typical British Lucas. It ran some of the time.
The reason the British drink warm beer is because they have Lucas refrigerators.
I owned a stick shift Gremlin when I was in the Marines at 29 Palms. I drove to Palm Springs during spring break and sat on the hood challenging people to race title for title. None of the pansy college boys with their fancy cars would race. I had a lot of fun in that tough little car. Except the back widow got busted out by an empty half barrel kegger when I was doing some Rat Patrol maneuvers in the desert.
During my hot rod days I had a A body MOPAR that was a sub 12 second car. One day at the strip this old guy trailers in a Gremlin and they set up right next to us in the pits. We gave the guy a pretty good ribbing. I had to pedal hard to get past that guy. Turns out they made some of those things with an AMC 401 shoved in them. Not a slow car.
Mr Mxyzptlk: Lucas ellectric was known as the “Prince of Darkness” to those of us who had to work on britmobiles.
I had a 1972 V-8 Gremlin that I wish I still had. It was made of real metal not crap that wobbles because it’s so thin. That car had incredible pick up. If I remember it cost a little under $2,000 and had air conditioning. It was mine until 1982 when I made the mistake of getting a piece of crap Ford Mustang. The sorriest vehicle in snow even a mere inch or so of it.
The Gremlin was brown copper color and had not one speck of rust on it, no dents, scrapes, etc. The only problem was the driver’s side door which was a bear to open. The metal around the door latch corroded and a friend welded a piece on to fix it. Not perfect but free. Oh yeah the same friend used a permanent marker to write Mercedes 450SL on the back of the car. We both thought it was funny.
The fool kid who bought it from me ran a red light a week later and totaled it.
I put 100K on my Gremlin and never had a bit of problem with it. It was a great little car.
That Cadillac Cyclone would be sublime if you could mount some machine guns in the front.
Go Cavs!
ahhh good old days
First car was a shiny new ’74 Gremlin. $2700 drive out. $500 down, 3 year note for $93/month. Drove it for 12 years. A true POS, but a great value…
I had a gremlin with the 240 6 cyl and 3 speed. That little freak would fly. Smoked those tires in first, burned rubber in second. Had a hornet a few years later and an AMX. AMC was real creative when it came to design.
This post is offensively non-inclusive. I’ve never owned a car in my life.
My father did, however, allow the three-year-old me to pick the color of his ’60 Thunderbird.
I chose seafoam green.
Where’s the Messerschmitt?
That link doesn’t go anywhere about cars. 🙁