The vendor of in the present day’s Nice Price or No Dice Gremlin says it was their mom’s automotive and that it has to date been held onto for sentimental causes. We’ll should determine if it’s priced to make potential patrons maintain onto their wallets.
Have you ever performed one thing solely to have others shake their heads and, indicating you with an outstretched hand, announce: “This is why we can’t have nice things”? Yeah, that’s an actual buzz kill.
The 1980 Jaguar XJ6 we checked out again on Friday appeared to be a really good factor and it will be a disgrace to let guilt over some poorly thought-out life selection deny anybody its automotive pleasures. This is the vacation season, in spite of everything. Do you wish to know what else shouldn’t be a hurdle? The $13,900 price ticket, that’s what. According to completely 77 p.c of you, that earned the automotive a Nice Price win, which is a pleasant factor of its personal accord.
Speaking of which, today we’re going to take a look at an Accord… Ha, just kidding.
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What we’re truly contemplating is that this 1976 AMC Gremlin, which curiously sufficient, was American Motors’ entrant into the compact automotive market that was additionally the playground for the likes of the Honda civic and Accord.
The Gremlin, nevertheless, wasn’t actually a compact automotive. Instead, in a transfer to save lots of AMC growth prices, it was a mid-size automotive (the Hornet) that had been diminished in general size by chopping off a lot of the again half. Now, naturally, that was the a part of the automotive that carries the passengers and their baggage, which considerably diminished the Gremlin’s area from that of the bigger Hornet. It nonetheless, however, supplied a mid-sized automotive’s engine bay permitting for it to make use of considerably bigger engines than in, say, these Hondas. A extra fashionable instance of this cost-saving mannequin growth is BMW’s E36 Compact which, hilariously, is the Gremlin’s religious descendent.
This Bicentennial-Year automotive is claimed within the advert to have been owned by the vendor’s mom. She apparently put a mere 40,000 miles on it earlier than hanging up the keys. It is available in brown metallic paint, which that vendor says is an older respray, however within the manufacturing unit hue.At present it rides on rallye-style wheels, however these don’t include the deal and the automotive will as an alternative roll on steelies with acceptable covers.
Like the outside, the cabin has been recovered as effectively, solely in factory-aping vinyl on the seating. That seating is comprised of a entrance bench with ahead folding backrests to assist egress to the rear compartment. There, a wildly uncomfortable-appearing seat gives lodging for 2 further passengers. It all appears to be full and fairly clear within the cabin.
As famous, the Gremlin’s odd proportions permit for a capacious engine compartment, and on this automotive’s case, that’s been crammed with AMC’s stalwart 258 CID OHV straight six. In the Gremlin that was good for 90 horsepower and, extra respectably, 170 lb-ft of torque. A 304 CID V8 was additionally out there however that solely made 122 horsepower mixed with 219 lb-ft of twist. A 3-speed TorqueFlite borrowed from Chrysler does transmission duties.
Like the cabin, the engine bay seems full, proper all the way down to its manufacturing unit air cleaner. Also, if anybody can inform me what that steel circle with the pink cone is on the passenger-side wheel effectively, I’ll offer you a gold star.
While you’re engaged on that, let’s wrap up our dialogue on the remainder of the automotive. According to the advert, it “Runs great” and comes with a transparent title. The vendor says they wish to discover the automotive house. That will most definitely be with an AMC fan ( who you might be) and that fan might want to provide you with $9,500 or thereabouts since that’s the asking value for the automotive.
What do you assume, is {that a} truthful value for this previous small however not so small automotive? Or, like its namesake, does that value wreak havoc on this Gremlin’s possibilities for a sale?
You determine!
Washington, DC Craigslist, or go right here if the advert disappears.
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Source: jalopnik.com