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Old 09-03-2016, 08:21 PM   #9
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Default Re: Resurrecting the Rambler

Finally, after some house grief it's back into action on the car. About one week ago, I applied the door decals and earlier this week started experimenting with the hood art layout. I didn't care for the factory offering, so I got some yellow pinstripe tape and started laying out my own pattern on some flames around a "homemade" AMX decal. Not sure I like it, but the pinstriping is easily ripped back off if needed. The AMX decal will stay on the hood though, that one is fairly permanent.

Now, the big news: September 3, 2016... very close to one full year after I started on this whole adventure, I filled up all the fluids, gave everything a final look-over, tug, and re-check, and started the car up after 23.5 years of sitting. Vroom! Oil pressure came up, and nothing melted or caught on fire. Topped everything off after a short run period and then drove it up and down the country road where I live, albeit slowly, (the tires are rotted and horrible), and it shifts into all the gears.
THE CAR LIVES!!!

Let the refinement process begin.
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Brian Saunders Lerna IL
'79 AMX T/SA 3790 currently being resurrected
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