RE: My new ride

From: knox.james@sympatico.ca
Date: Thu Feb 16 2012 - 16:34:19 EST


Hi Philip . Most people include AMC as Mopar Family after Chrysler bought the AMC Company for the JEEP name and AMC line of products which did include some good performance cars with a mixture of engine makes.

 

Jim ; 91 Dak

 

 

> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:22:10 -0800
> From: pbatson68@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: DML: My new ride
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>
>
> Does it look like this? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15476516/1985_amc_eagle_4x4_wagon.jpg
>
> Why the attraction to AMC?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Michael Maskalans <dml@tepidcola.com>
> > To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> > Cc:
> > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 8:29 AM
> > Subject: DML: My new ride
> >
> >
> > Those of you who are friends of mine on the book of faces know I was cross
> > shopping the oddest pairing of mid-cheap cars ever for the last couple weeks,
> > E30 BMWs and AMC Eagles.
> >
> > Well I found a 325is that I loved, but I didn't move on it quickly enough
> > and lost it by a couple hours. I didn't lose the next one I set my sights
> > on though, an '89 AMC Eagle wagon. I was in Denver for Monster Jam (now
> > side job #2 behind the transportation stuff) and the car was in CO Springs.
> > After I was done Saturday night, I went down to the Springs with a couple
> > friends who came up for the show and drove it back up to Denver.
> >
> > Then spent Monday and Tuesday driving it back here to Rochester. I stopped in
> > Kansas at Kansasland Tire (*highly* recommend these folks) to have a shimmy
> > checked out, and found that both rear wheels are bent; nothing else amiss. Gave
> > me a chance to go over the rest of the underside of the car on a lift and gave
> > myself a list of to do items but nothing scary at all. Needs a muffler, one
> > front wheel bearing for sure and probably the other, brakes, 1 driveline ujoint
> > and one front CV axle. Not bad at all for a $1200 rust free Colorado car.
> >
> > I've done a sneeze of carb work on it, it's running pretty well. Still
> > need to check the idle tubes for clogging, find a tach to really set my idles
> > and timing at 1650, I think it is, instead of "that sounds good" RPM,
> > and I may set it up for premium fuel with a little more timing. When I advanced
> > it a bit too far (misread the marks) it made a huge difference and was just
> > barely pinging under load on 89. I'll see how I like it as it's set
> > now, correctly. (9вк static).
> > --
> > Michael Maskalans
> > Rochester NY
> > 585.935.7129
> >
>



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