I would like to take an early Gremlin X and make it a Gremlin SRT8-X. Swap in a late model 6.1 Hemi drivetrain, with the wheels and make it handle. Bright Orange with the black X Stripe. My brother had a 72 Gremlin X. It was yellow, 304 V8 with a 3speed manual. He put some groovy shag carpet it in back in 77. It was his auto body project in tech college
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March 12, 2010 10:29 p.m. TIGMOTORSPORTS New Reader
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March 13, 2010 8:45 a.m. wcelliot Reader
Track steward at VIR a few years back had the coolest (and likely fastest) Gremlin I've ever seen. I didn't get a chance to take pix, but it was monchrome silver, low, wide, loud, and SUPER sweet....
Bill
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March 13, 2010 9:04 a.m. minimac Dork
minimac wrote:
Right after getting married, I had to sell my 442(the new bride ruined the 4 speed trying to learn to drive stick) and we bought a new '71 Gremlin X off the showroom floor. It had a 232-6, automatic, and was a nice little car, decent seats and plush carpeting.IIRC, it stickered for something like $2300. It had ample room inside(although I was 'smaller' then)factory wheels and wide D-70-14. Remember, this was at the height of the muscle car craze. My buddies thought I was nuts, but even then, with gas under $0.50/gal., it was nice to fill the 20 gallon tank and drive for two weeks or better, instead of filling up every 3 days. Winter traction was almost nonexistent, even with good snows, and I still remember the feeling I got traveling on Interstate 90 @60mph or so, hitting some black ice on a bridge and doing a 360( in traffic). I never left my lane or lifted, and from the outside it probably looked awesome as the car swapped ends and kept on going-but it was a whole different story on the inside of the car! Two years later, during the "Gas Crisis", I sure looked smart. While I don't miss Mrs.Mini( # 1), I sure miss that car
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March 13, 2010 9:09 a.m. minimac Dork
Why did this post again? I didn't do anything!
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March 13, 2010 12:28 p.m. jgp1843 HalfDork
There are some interesting ones out there. Back in the day, Randall American of Mesa, Arizona sold a bunch with 401 cubic inch V8s. They weren't cornering cars, but they were quick in a straight line!
Randall also road raced an AMX with SCCA.
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March 13, 2010 3:38 p.m. poopshovel UltraDork
To the OP: Not a damned thing wrong with you. That color is berkeleying delicious.
Would look great on this:
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March 13, 2010 9:31 p.m. willy19592 Reader
hehe taught my to be wife to drive in 1977. taught her to drive stick in 78, married her in 79. Bought her, her first car ever in 82. a 1970 Gremlin. 300 bucks. We both loved that car, and we put many miles on it. Tons of stories I could tell. but the car actually brought me into being a "car guy" (2 clutch jobs for my bride) the car was something that we still love to this day. I have toyed with getting one for my wife, as a toy. But she really isnt a person to enjoy that. she likes her xb, (stick) with awesome stereo. lol
that little gremlin was so fun to drive, and was actually pretty dang quick, we had a good time with it. lol wife still has the locking gas cap from it!
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March 13, 2010 9:40 p.m. willy19592 Reader
lol just found a pic... My Son and now my buisness partner on our gremlin when I was building our house. I sent my wife to the lumber yard, to get her out of my hair. I never imagined she would get all I told her to buy that day :)
never under estimate a woman in a gremliin
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March 13, 2010 9:52 p.m. neon4891 UberDork
My favorite Gremlin
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March 13, 2010 10:08 p.m. Tommy Suddard SonDork
Poor man's rotisserie?
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March 14, 2010 3:21 a.m. phaze1todd New Reader
Judging by the balooning of the rear tires, he's still in it and not giving up. I, personally, would have lifted by now.
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March 14, 2010 8:40 a.m. P71 UltraDork
That's the Wheelstanding competition. Everybody stays in it till they roll.
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March 15, 2010 8:05 a.m. racerdave600 Reader
96DXCivic wrote:
racerdave600 wrote:
My very first car as a '68 Ambassador, an ex-detective car I got from my grandfather. It was fairly quick up to about 70mph, then the front end went airborne from the lift! That and the 10mpg fuel consumption saw my dad sell it for a Mazda GLC. Of course by then I had started my long string of barely running MG's and Triumphs! Still, i remember the AMC with fondness. It had a HUGE backseat, always good in HS.!
Huge back seats aren't always needed. You and the girl just have to be limber.
HA! Yeah my car in college was a '72 Midget for a while, I'm pretty sure my college GF still has scars!
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March 15, 2010 8:41 p.m. a401cj New Reader
v8 Gremlin can be deceptively fast. 360, 390, and 401 will all bolt right in place of the 304. They don't weigh a heck of a lot either
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March 16, 2010 8:41 a.m. tuna55 HalfDork
phaze1todd wrote:
Judging by the balooning of the rear tires, he's still in it and not giving up. I, personally, would have lifted by now.
I love wheelstands.
1: It was a wheelie contest, he's basically trying to flip it over. 2: You really can't lift during a wheelstand, the front end will come down so hard it will break your teeth.
Never done one, but my old man on a wheelie contest in similar fashion, but it didn't flip. His AMX cost $1000 in frame damage to repair, which the $100 purse for winning the wheelie contest did not cover.
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March 16, 2010 11:57 a.m. poopshovel UltraDork
willy19592 wrote:
lol just found a pic... My Son and now my buisness partner on our gremlin when I was building our house. I sent my wife to the lumber yard, to get her out of my hair. I never imagined she would get all I told her to buy that day :)
never under estimate a woman in a gremliin
"Reader's Rides" worthy, IMHO.
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March 16, 2010 6:32 p.m. neon4891 UberDork
P71 wrote:
That's the Wheelstanding competition. Everybody stays in it till they roll.
yes, IIRC the next year he managed to flip it.
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March 16, 2010 9:03 p.m. Jensenman MegaDork
racerdave600 wrote:
96DXCivic wrote:
racerdave600 wrote:
My very first car as a '68 Ambassador, an ex-detective car I got from my grandfather. It was fairly quick up to about 70mph, then the front end went airborne from the lift! That and the 10mpg fuel consumption saw my dad sell it for a Mazda GLC. Of course by then I had started my long string of barely running MG's and Triumphs! Still, i remember the AMC with fondness. It had a HUGE backseat, always good in HS.!
Huge back seats aren't always needed. You and the girl just have to be limber.
HA! Yeah my car in college was a '72 Midget for a while, I'm pretty sure my college GF still has scars!
Had a bruise the shape of a Spitfire dash grab handle across my bum for a while.
It was raining that night too.
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March 17, 2010 10:47 a.m. MA2LA New Reader
I'm a huge AMC guy but never realy liked the style of the gremlin, Bu I do have a nice little collection of AMXs including a 69 with 343 auto, a 71 amx auto , a 72 amx auto and then my fav is my 79 spirit amx 304 but the best part is it is striped down. the guy who ordered it got it with the 304, 4 speed and no power stearing or power brakes or ac. the only other option is a AM/FM CB radio. black with tan interior. once i yanked the 2bbl for a afb and went to duals that was very fun. I cant wait to get my shop done its going in for a complete resto.
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March 19, 2010 8:05 p.m. TIGMOTORSPORTS Reader
not letting the Gremlin thread die:
