Your donations help keep this valuable resource free and growing. Thank you.
|
AMC Sundancer 1982 in Finland |
Post Reply | Page 12> |
Author | |
juhap
AMC Apprentice Joined: Jul/19/2007 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 165 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
Posted: Feb/24/2023 at 3:55pm |
Summer 2022, a hot June day got new car home on a trailer.
Nice... .. very nice.. ..indeed... But six years in a garage had left some signs... T-top had turned grey. Some vinyl paint and a little bit of glue fixed it. It needed some touch ups... and battery cables. Looks fresh. Front seat had frozen motors... out the old ones... .. in with the new ones... I had Concord seats, so it was easy fix. A couple of "glory holes"? Oh no... "Look mom, no holes!" Rag top had some nasty screws. Needed better, so I bought some right ones. Starter relay did belong to a John Deere tractor. Got these fixed. Cab cover fits nice... Door window didn´t work well. No wonder if it had to work with this kind of rubber. And this was matter in both of doors. Glass do not sit well, but I can live with that....so far... This metal clip was missing, but I had one. So this was also easy fix. Window motor is kind of finnish design... worked few weeks before jammed... Doors needed some other work too... Handles too... Then it was time to made it street legal... tried to drive it to road test location, but old tires were bad, so it was impossible to drive. Had to turn back and found a pair of tires and made a new try... It passed that test. I had a new set of whitewall tires waiting in a local tire shop for my Matador Coupe. So soon after road test I had new set of tires under this one. It has had these stupid European Union lisence plates since its registration 2006... So I changed those to standard plates. And placed those original Florida plates under them as decoration. Found a pair of sun visors from my treasure... Bushings were dead and caused heavy vibes... Some maintenance done... Bushings, gas line, and such... New bushings... Air hose. Eagle donated a heater valve... I wondered why gearbox made noice sometimes... someone had made a transmission mount of his own design... did not work. So a new one fixed that problem. After very busy summer it was time to go to winter hibernation.... But I have to do some seat reparation. Front seats are in bad shape as well as rear one... This is original co-driver seat... but driver seat had fixed years ago... in US I believe... and they had painted old and new leather to get it all same color... To fix these, I bought a cow hide... Next summer I´m going to use this much more than I did. But it needs some TLC and elbow grease before and during the summer.
I did order new brake calibers fron Rockauto and bought other brake parts. New bushings and such are needed... And some welding is needed too... Battery tray and rest of that area are gone and repaired badly... I have hoarded a lot of used parts (junk says my wife...), so I found this. It is a inner fender of a Hornet... After some cleaning I found that i needs some new sheet metal. I fixed it, now its almost like new. Both front fenders have many dings and dents and some other paint damages... Engine bay needs cleaning and painting, there has been a battery explosion and acid has burnt though paint... And the worst thing is that death wobble like some Jeeps do. It occures ocasionally, but is very disturbing... Edited by juhap - Feb/24/2023 at 3:58pm |
|
American HT -65,American 220 2d,American 220 4d,American 330 Wagon(x2),American F/EX,Eagle STW(x4),Matador Coupe(2x),AMC Hornet 2d(x3),Jeepster 1950,Concord -81,Nash HT -52,Classic 2d -63,SC/Rogue -66
|
|
bikerfox
Moderator Group Joined: Aug/02/2009 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 4473 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
we don't see concords very much here--thanks for the update!
|
|
1969 Rebel SST (1970-1987)
1968 AMX (2005-2011) 1969 SC/Rambler (2011-2019) 1970 Javelin (2019 to ?)"Jane" |
|
70BBOAMX
AMC Addicted Joined: Sep/30/2008 Location: South Carolina Status: Offline Points: 568 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Nice work on a rare car. Thanks for sharing.
|
|
CamJam
Moderator Group Joined: Jan/04/2014 Location: Arizona Status: Offline Points: 6553 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Nice car! I had forgotten about Sundancers until I saw one at Rambler Ranch in 2021.
|
|
'73 Javelin 360 (current project)
'72 Baja Bronze Javelin SST '69 Big Bad Orange AMX (2018 Teague Heritage Award) SOLD |
|
troutwilly
AMC Addicted Joined: Sep/14/2007 Location: Carriere, MS Status: Offline Points: 994 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Very nice. Something I have never seen before. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work.
|
|
Bill O.
70 AMX |
|
6t8amxetc
AMC Addicted Joined: Mar/11/2008 Location: Washington State Status: Offline Points: 630 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
WOW, that is a lot of work in a short time. It is looking great so far. Looking forward to more updates in the future. Thanks for sharing!
|
|
juhap
AMC Apprentice Joined: Jul/19/2007 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 165 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Yes, there were some pressure to update my summer time driver. I´ve had my previous one nine years now and needed some change... I had two projects to replace this Matador Coupe, but couldn´t finish them in needed time (too many peojects going on?) So Sundancer was an "easy" short project....
|
|
American HT -65,American 220 2d,American 220 4d,American 330 Wagon(x2),American F/EX,Eagle STW(x4),Matador Coupe(2x),AMC Hornet 2d(x3),Jeepster 1950,Concord -81,Nash HT -52,Classic 2d -63,SC/Rogue -66
|
|
maddvector
AMC Apprentice Joined: Jul/24/2018 Location: Walker, LA Status: Offline Points: 148 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Very Cool!
|
|
motorhead_1
AMC Addicted Joined: Apr/16/2014 Location: AZ Status: Offline Points: 1005 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
quite the nice collection you have over there. very nice
|
|
69 SC/Rambler tribute 401/th400, 68 Rebel SST LSA, 66 F100 460/c6, 88 Merkur Xr4Ti, 71 Jaguar XJ6 LS1, 08 Supercharged Tundra
|
|
juhap
AMC Apprentice Joined: Jul/19/2007 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 165 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Those were only a little sample... current projects... Matador is a future project, needs alot of body panels and such to be original Oleg Cassini... |
|
American HT -65,American 220 2d,American 220 4d,American 330 Wagon(x2),American F/EX,Eagle STW(x4),Matador Coupe(2x),AMC Hornet 2d(x3),Jeepster 1950,Concord -81,Nash HT -52,Classic 2d -63,SC/Rogue -66
|
|
Post Reply | Page 12> |
Tweet
|
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |