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SC/Rambler Restoration #8 Chronicle. |
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amcgilly
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Posted: Mar/04/2012 at 3:38pm |
Can't wait to see some new pics on this resto. Keep up the great work.
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amx39068
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Been awhile since an update on this car. We have been doing lots of finishing touches on the paint and interior painted parts plus reassembling interior things like the windows but only as filler in between other restorations that have a more pressing timeline.
Will get some new pictures over the next week or two when the interior is done and installed and when the new Phoenix Graphics B Scheme decals are put on the car. The engine and tranny are done as are the rear suspension, brake and fuel lines but have not intalled the new front end parts yet like ball joints or tie rod ends and still need to correctly refinish the front fender to body seals. The exterior paint has been wet sanded, cut and buffing is nearly completed. Upholstery is all redone and the engine is built with modified TRW forged flat tops for a stock 16cc dish including the remainder of the original flat top valve reliefs to retain a "flat top" style quench. The rotating assembly is fully balanced and the heads are port matched. Will most likely be using a NOS Crane "306" cam which will give it that great old school sound and lots extra power up to 6500 RMP. Intake will most likely be an R4B or AirGap and the carb will be a new Holley 750 DP. For street engines, I mostly use the easy and straight forward Mallory Unilite self contained dizzy and will probably do the same with this car. Will also probably do set of headers over log manifolds if the square port headers are still available (haven't bought a set in nearly two years so not sure on that one). Still need to finish off the underside paint to be the way I like it with body color paint up to the bottom of the frame rails with chassis black in between the rails on the center tunnel. Should be a really nice car when done over the next couple of months. Edited by amx39068 - Feb/26/2012 at 8:43pm |
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Dan Curtis-Owner and CEO AZ AMC Restorations; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amcmusclecars/ & Curtis Real Estate Development
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17tamx
AMC Addicted Joined: Dec/23/2008 Location: Peoria, AZ Status: Offline Points: 1170 |
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Wow, five months hibernating over winter and it just now sprouted wings.
Time for some more pictures of Number 8.
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Kirk P. Fletcher
70 AMX BBG w/Shadow 390 4sp 71 SC360 Wild Plum Ram Air 4sp 67 Rogue Convert 343 4sp 66 Rogue Hardtop 290 Auto 66 440 Convert 232 Auto |
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Wildfire
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amxdreamer
AMC Addicted Joined: Jul/30/2008 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 8494 |
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Well it was a long response...then again we all expect that from Dan!
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Tony
Vancouver, BC 1970 AMX 1972 Badassador AMO#10333 |
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68BlazerBlue
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WOW!! Edited by 68BlazerBlue - Oct/06/2011 at 6:53am |
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1968 Blazer Blue AMX, 390,4-spd. 1971 Javelin SST 360 Auto
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17tamx
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This was an e-mail Dan Curtis sent to me today. Details moved to the thread about Dan's shop. 2/29/12 5:54 pm AZ time. Edited by 17tamx - Feb/29/2012 at 6:53pm |
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Kirk P. Fletcher
70 AMX BBG w/Shadow 390 4sp 71 SC360 Wild Plum Ram Air 4sp 67 Rogue Convert 343 4sp 66 Rogue Hardtop 290 Auto 66 440 Convert 232 Auto |
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67RogueX-Code
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...you keep repeating yourself... we get your point, time to move on.
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billd
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Mine is most definitely in the "used car" class. Not even a "restoration".
Thanks, kirkwood - stuff happens when I try to do too much at once. I know Steve was very specific (and very correct) and I dind't want us falling into "undercoating vs sound deadener" debate when the answers are already there, and even documented by AMC themselves. Maybe it wasn't going to - but my eyes saw us on the edge. For repaints - not going to comment on that car, or AMCs, or whatever, but in OTHER industries, things did happen if the inspector rejected something - my father having been a chief inspector for a number of years in a factory. What's that got to do with this? Probably nothing, but hey, it's my lunch break. |
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amxdreamer
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I can't imagine a car going back through the line, I'm not saying it didn't happen as I wasn't there, I just have a hard time imagining it. Maybe it went to a bodyshop after delivery due to repairs?
I'm not arguing about how or where it was applied, just that when someone states that the cars are done "right" and are fully restored to a very high standard and they clearly show incorrect things or not quite top end work it lowers the bar for what people expect as being correct. One of the reasons the top cars from other manufacturers are worth as much as they are is the restorations are taken to the next level (in this case a few levels above). If the owner of a $350,000 Shelby or a $2,000,000 Hemi car looked at this SC do you really think he would pay big money to get it into his collection? Not likely, when I hear the term "collector quality restorations" it had better be stripped to bare steel and every part restored. If not, in my opinion, all your selling are used cars.
Why do you think the Trans-Am Javelin sold for record money? Sure the name went with it and it's racing pedigree but the restoration was also very good.
Remember, there is a big difference between "collector quality restorations" and used cars.
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Tony
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