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Vehicle Description
Recently a good longtime AMC friend of mine, James Hahn, was shot killed
by Houston SWAT. His family has asked that I sell off James' collection of
Gremlins, of which he had one or more of every year AMC produced the
Gremlins from 1970 thru 1978. These will be dropped here on ebay, NO
RESERVE, and some are restorable, others are drag car material, yet others
are glorified parts cars. I will attempt to simply describe them as seen.
There is a file on the front page of my site at planethoustonamx.com with
photos of his collection; and some comments about James who I had known
since the 1980s when he was a teen with a infectious laugh and a passion for
anything Gremlin related. Please do not email me asking about certain cars,
as I will know know about those UNTIL they are delivered here to my place.
This is second up for sale; first year with 'new design' fenders
back glass. This Gremlin runs, drives stops! Cranks right up, shifts
smoothly.
VIN is: A7A465E160956 (total production for 77 Gremmies was 46171, and 38613
were the six cylinder;
this one was built early November 76, 11th week of production); BODY
K026334; MODEL 7746-5;
TRIM 705-H; PAINT 6P; LINE NUMBER E027116.
Options Accessories: 232-6, Automatic/column shift (904 light duty
Torqueflite); Air Conditioning,
Disc Brakes, Power Steering, Rally stripe, chrome roof luggage rack, heavy
duty cooling w/7 blade flexfan;
front rear bumper guards; electric wipers. The vehicle is showing 54,000
miles. I do not know if this is original,
however a dated decal inside driver door jamb (see photo) shows 49,000 miles
in 1994. Paint/stripe original.
While this vehicle needs going thru, I have had better worse. The engine
runs smoothly and trans shifts same
into all gears. Disc brakes will stop you but need bleeding or freshing up.
The lights, horn, AC/heater fan blower,
tail lights, brake lights, high beams, all WORK. Dash has cracks in upper
piece but crash pad is real nice, along
with gauge ovelay and glovebox door. Vehicle also sports neat lower end to
end dash package tray! Door panels
in good shape, as is trunk pan, hood, fenders and headliner. Gremlin is
complete with gas tank, suspension,
wiring harness. There is no glass as it was broken out by vandals. You can
find most of the glass
from fellow AMC fans on the badassgremlin yahoo group or the amc blog;
listed under AMC ONLINE on my site, or even here on ebay; the glass
interchanges with a few models, like windshield from 1970 thru 1988
Grem/Horn/Spir/Eagle Series. It's restorable, or one could make a art car,
dragster perhaps, or use it to restore other Gremlin/Hornet/Concord Series.
This vehicle is being sold as is, no title, bill of sale only.
Payment: I don't do paypal or credit card but do take checks and money
orders. Payment in full is to be made within a week of auction's end.
Should you need the vehicle transported, I would highly recommend
some of the auto transport companies listed in my VENDORS section of my
website including CSI or Houston and Rebel Yell of Dallas to name a few;
both of whom are reasonable and have transported dozens of AMCs for me thru
the decades. Should you wish to tow it yourself, the largest U-Haul in
Houston is in the 10,000 block of Old Katy Road about 3 miles from me, a tow
dolly is $39.95 or so a day. My battery does not go with vehicle. Vehicle is to be
removed within one month of purchase please as I will have more of these
Gremmies coming in. and need the room.
And even if you don't bid, ya'll say a prayer for that young man James.
If you have any questions about this Gremlin you can call me during the
day at 713-464-8825 or email me directly at eddiestakes@planethoustonamx.com
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