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Drooze,

Glad to hear everyone is doing better, now get racing and good luck out West.........

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Drooze; I've got to thank you. See, I've been feeling badly and down in the dumps the last few weeks, but you.......with your cheery and positive attitude, plus not taking your critics too seriously, has put me in a better mood. All the best on your racing efforts, and I'm glad your dad and son are feeling better too!
Oh yeah, don't take Eddie too seriously, his bark is way worse than his bite. Deep down, he's really a sweetheart. But you know how those " Kelvinator " racers can get.

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Lol...thanks Don....

I have to ask "Kelvinator" racers ?

Never heard that one before....like as in Refrigerator ? Can you race those ? Noone told me, lol...

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Ed is Don picking on you I got your back LOL.

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Drooze! I thought you were older, but for your info American Motors used to be the builder of Kelvinator Refrigerators (spell) , hence the AMC's called Kelvinators, or Ramblers, or Kenosha Vibraters, etc !
Why don't you just tell who is driving your car ? It's not a big deal, Just have a good time racing !...........Later.......John

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Cause its too much fun to keep it quiet :D:D:D Noone (well some) dont believe it anyway....itll be that much more fun, AND If I fall flat on my face and break something in testing it wont reflect badly on him, that was my idea......but hes with us for a while early in the year so.....there will be Gainesiville....

Im 38.....so a little young, AMC was in its death throws by then.....I had a 64 Rambler I drove to death....2 dr looked like a bar of Ivory Soap, had white fresh paint and light blue interior....AND A TORQUE TUBE ! On a 64...And vacum wipers...No wonder they went out of business....lol..

I get it now.....AMC, Kelvinator.....gotcha....

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If you do not make it to Pomona,surely you will be at the Arizona Nationals with your new car.And man do they have great weather this time of year!

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No, if something happens and Pomona is a Wash a couple point/div in Florida then Gainesville..

The westward trip is supposed to hit both for us, we wouldnt go except for that plan....to far to drive and then back to our coast for just 1 event.

But if today was any indicator Pomona is looking good....mad work done today.

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Now I am old enough to not only remember Kelvinators but I had the distinct pleasure of working on many Ramblers of the day.......They were a bit behind the times as I recall. Still had flathead engines when everyone else had OHV's. They aslo used some really ancient stuff in the front end and had the last closed driveshaft-torque tube arrangement that I recall. I had an old lady customer with a Rambler wagon......manual trans and a flathead. She used to ride that clutch to death and I changed it more than once. Disconnect the entire rear and roll it rearward to get the trans and clutch out.....

I do recall an old Rambler that layed in our station for a good long while with a 327 ohv V8 and I think it had a 4 barrel carb. It was an AMC engine not a Chevy......


I also worked on postal vehicles some and Jeeps later in my mechanic life......AM General built the Post offfice vehicles out of some the cheapest parts they could find......Maybe they still build them ?

Now Jeeps were my real favorites back in the mid to late 70's.........I worked in a dealership...Pontiac-Jeep-Subaru.........Seemed to me like the Jeeps were built with almost anything AMC could find laying around.......you just never knew what was under that hood !!! LOL....

GM was doing the same thing though........Pontiacs had all kinds of engines under the hoods.....A class action suit was won over that one......

Kelvinators were actually pretty good refrigerators I think.............

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Rich they were really behind the times.They were the first American car company to have curved side glass (1964 I think) dual master cylinder (1964).The uni body concept was used on the 49-51 bathtub Nashes.The 1957 4 door Rebel was one of the fastest
production cars that year.There's probably a bunch more I can't think of off hand'
The torque tubes were only in the Classics and Ambassadors in 1964 I think.Then for 1965 they were gone.The trunnion front suspensions were a bit fugazy,but the AMX's and Javelins had them even used them through 1969.FYI ALL Gen 2 (287-327) and Gen 3 engines (290-390) were high nickel content including the heads.All 390 and 401s had steel cranks and rods.They were available in FS Jeeps,Ambassador,Rebel,AMX and Javelins.Granted the Borg Warner autos left a lot to be desired,but in1972 the Chrysler TF became the std.auto across the line.SS Amx's can still hold their own despite the lack of extensive parts and R&D over the years.Even my 6 cylinder can run pretty quick for a granny car engine.So yeah Antique Motors Corp belongs in the archives with the dinosaurs.