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Father’s Day Car Show

asifnyc — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 04:32:12 +0000

I’m not a big car show guy (I prefer a race track!) but there’s a local, annual show that the Norcal AMC club has been going to for years. Usually they have maybe 2 to 4 cars. I wanted to help up the count so I registered the yellow Javelin. I considered bringing the race car as well but was too lazy in the end. I took my father in-law. We had 8 AMC’s and it was the biggest club showing yet. Next year I really want to bring the race car.

AMCRC National 2010

asifnyc — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:44:56 +0000

This weekend was the AMCRC clubs national AMC meet in Sacramento. After all the long road trips I’ve done lately it was nice to have something only an hour and fifteen minutes away. Yesterday there was a swap meet at the California Auto Museum. Aside from Doug Galvin there wasn’t a whole lot going on though. I checked out the museum for a bit and then headed out to visit the guys at A&L Auto. This is a repair shop in Sac owned buy some serious AMC fans. I brought my Javelin over to show them and to see what they had going on. Great guys and some nice AMCs. Then I headed over to Evil Genius Racing in West Sacramento. This is the race shop that’s going to do the cage for my American Iron Javelin. John Pagel runs things over there. He spent a lot of time explaining things to me and I can’t wait to get the car over there so they can start working.

Today was the big AMC show under the highway near the California Auto Museum. I was skeptical about the location but it turned out to be a great place for a car show. Because of the overpass a lot of the cars were shielded from the sun all day. The guys from A&L had 4 AMCs in the show and Rich, the shop owner, won a trophy with his Matador wagon. I think there were 80 to 100 cars. One of the highlights for me was “Marlin Row”. There were NINE Marlins there. When was the last time you saw that many Marlins in one place? *If your name is Stan Kelly this question is not directed to you :)* Pretty cool…

After the show, back at the museum, there was a buffet dinner and a speaker. The speaker was Jack Carol who was a designer for AMC from I think about 1962 to 1967. He worked in both the interior and exterior styling departments. He had a slide show showing a lot of his original drawings and told stories of life at AMC during that time. I really enjoyed the talk.

He’s a little video I shot of the show.

Victory in Pomona!

asifnyc — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:43:46 +0000

wow! what a trip! I drove about 900 miles over the last 3 days. had a great time at the Socal AMX club’s ALL AMC car show. Just like last year it was in the parking lot at the NHRA museum. Great show! One particularly interesting car there was a 1969 AMX 600 that Craig Breedlove used to own. Really interesting car. Also got to hang out with Jon Feltis and his dad. great people and they are building (rebuilding) their cool 1969 Javelin with a killer new front suspension will all corvette C6 components. Wow!

Oh, and I won a FIRST PLACE trophy… crazy. I was in “Javelin Modified” class and there were only 2 other cars in that class so I realized I was definitely going to win a trophy. I was shocked to get first place though. My javelin was the least “nice” of the group, with all it’s paint chips and the bugs in the grille from the drive (I didn’t even wash it). But, I can confidently say I had the MOST modified javelin, so if that was the criteria then I guess it makes sense.

I was really impressed and happy with how well the car performed. with the tko 5 speed it just cruises on the highway. it does wander now and then over certain surfaces. don’t know if that’s because of the wheels or not. it’s got a street alignment on it… dunno.

coming back over the grapevine was COLD!!!! I have no heat or AC in this car and it was down right FRIGID for about 20 minutes… some day I’d like to put a vintage air system in.

Here’s a time lapse of the show I shot with my go pro camera. enjoy.

Socal AMX Pomona thrash!!!

asifnyc — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:27:28 +0000

I went to the Socal AMX club’s AMC car show last year and vowed to come back with my Javelin. We’ll I leave in the morning and BOY it’s been an epic thrash. Here are some of the highlights/lowlights…

The interior if fully dynamated and the carpeting, seats and dash is mostly all back together

The center parking brake is installed and working!

The new amp rack and new door speakers are installed and the stereo works!

As for the problelms…

I orderd a set of black, cragar d-window wheels from summit. actually I ordered a pair of 17×8 for the front and a pair of 17×9 for the rears. and I bought nitto 555 tires. Well, the 17x9s came quickly but the 17x8s have been backordered for over a month… I made a last ditch effort by ordered another pair of 17x9s so I’d have that size all around. However, they’re not going to get hear in time for the show. So, that means I’m driving the 410 miles (each way) on my Kumho victoracer dot legal track tires… not my first choice but I have been running them on the street for a while. Hopefully there won’t be any issues.

Another, bigger issue is that I ordered rebuilt door hinges because mine have always been shot. I’ve tried replacing the pins/bushings and tried added the door springs (which were missing on my car) but I have been unable to get my old, worn out hinges to work. So I sprung for the replacement hinges. I decided to go ahead and try to replace them for the show. big mistake. there is no way, by myself, that I can get the door aligned… I started on the passenger side so the drivers side still works. But, on the passenger side I’ve basically given up and have to sit on my butt and push the door closed with my foot to get it to latch. oh, and even though I can get the door latched, the window won’t roll up in the position I have it. So, I’m driving 900 miles with a door hanging on and a window I can’t close.

I spent last weekend, ALL WEEKEND, working on the car and realized I would never get it done in time. So I ended up taking the last 2 days off to complete it. Leaving in the morning. Wish me luck!