ABANDONED FOR 32 YEARS! Will this AMC Gremlin Run and Drive Again? Ft.
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- This time on Sally's Speed Shop we head to Indiana with the service truck with plans to revive a 1976 Gremlin that we bought sight unseen from Kevin at @brokengear2476! The car was last on the road in Bon Carbo, Colorado back in 1991. Kevin bought the car and had it shipped to his place just outside of Ft. Wayne, Indiana before selling this gem to us. I roped in my buddy Cale from @camracing to help with this project and drive one of the vehicles back to Georgia with me should we be able to get the little Gremlin running. Stay tuned for plenty of surprises including the biggest mouse nests I've ever seen as well as mouse turds for days! The story of this little Gremlin that could is far from over so stay tuned for Parts 2 and 3 of a legendary revival and adventure with this quirky automobile!
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Now if you can find a 304 and a 4speed,, you really got something
Maybe haha I have some other schemes in mind!
304 engines are Junk 105hp ford 302 or LS
Im still amazed at how solid that little Gremlin is. And it runs like a top too
AMC built cars strong. Granted they were poor and probably couldn't fix them but they were built great
Brings back some memories, had a 73 with the 258 in HS, 75-76. Then built a 74X with a buddy in college years, bit more spicy, lol ! We got a blue printed 401 (that we ended up mounting an 8-71!). With a Doug Nash 4 sp, Team Strange quick change, a cobbled wishbone ft end... Far too much fun, 9.2 / 142+ for quarter mile times! Back when it was fairly cheap to go racing. Thanx !
Wow! Now that sounds like a riot! 🙌🏼
It was! Even more on the street, folks in Michigan didn't think an AMC had the hp, lol! & The quick change was amazing for street/strip changes. Used a water injector for premium on street, aviation fuel at Martin US-131 dragway... Without wheelie bars it could be a 2 wheel monster, but rarely drifted much (unless ya hit moisture! Lol). They transfer very well off the lights (def had the rear suspension tweaked & custom, for the day...). Good luck with yours, I'm sure it'll give ya lots of possibilities! Thanx !
Jacob this is so awesome a car sitting for 30 years it run so good.
It was honestly mind blowing how good it was! Especially considering we didn't touch the carb or the brake system!
That's awesome 👌 truly shocking how much is working
It seriously blew my mind! I honestly still don't fully understand it!
Definitely runs like a top wouldn't expect that it would run that good after 30 years but vehicles were made better back then wow at how clean the gas tank was after the dirt was removed what a gem and working lights wow @Sally's Speed Shop
I used to do all my own work on my cars. Nowadays they make it so difficult you have to take 100 pieces of plastic off the top of the motor to get the one spark plug. Cars today are designed so you have to take it to a mechanic. All the special tools you need it's ridiculous. By the time you buy every toy you need for your automobile you can open your own auto shop
@@joelojacono6993 all of what you said is 100 percent facts 💯 and yep by the time you get the tools you would definitely have enough to open a shop as a shop owner and mechanic it's not cheap
Get yourself a can of cheap Walmart paint. Take the paint can lid off of it. The paint can lid fits perfectly with the filler spout of the gas tank. Drill a hole in the center and screw in a male nipple. Connect to the air hose and let her blow. He will squirt pretty quick! We always use diesel fuel to wash out the gas tank. Specialty cars going to sit for a while and if you're going to trailer at home. This will bounce the diesel fuel around and help clean the tank as well. You guys are doing a great job. Thanks for bringing back my gremlin memories
My dad had a early model gremlin that was gold with a v8 automatic. I used to sit on his lap and drive down the old dirt roads of mid Michigan. Good times. Great video 😁👍💪💪
That’s a great memory right there! 🙌🏼 Thanks for watching!
If any viewers really want a nice gremlin or another AMC car, I can get them for you. Mexico has a lot of completely stock AMC type cars. The Hornet type car Mexico had has some really cool roof lines that were not available in the US. As a bonus a lot of them were stick shift cars. Also there was a Mexico only car called the Lerma and I know where a few are for sale. Also Also I can offer door to door shipping.
I would love to see some of these Mexico only cars you’re talking about! If you email me at SallysSpeedShop@gmail.com maybe we can work something out!
Had a 74 and loved it! Think had a 258 which was dependable. Also had a 74 javelin.
Hard to beat those straight sixes! Have you seen our Javelin project?
The logo on the gas tank is USS which stood for US Steel....
I knew I’d seen it before. Good eye!
A Gremlin. Something you don't see everyday. Great video man! 👍👍
Thank you Paully! You definitely don’t see them much anymore!
I owned a 1976 sky blue Ford pinto that we paid $300 for that was in perfect condition. Only had 11,000 original miles on it in 1995 and I loved that car bc it was my first car I owned. That AMC is a great car also.
That Ford axle with the Detroit locker looks like a 3rd Member Style axle @Sally's Speed Shop
Joki smurf now, with the ignition issues. No longer grumpy. Wow, what a great adventure.
Still a little grumpy, it's certainly got some Gremlins haha
Everything about that car is so minty. But I gotta say - seeing the contrast with the yungun' cleaning under the sill plate and thinking "details"and the older guys mostly thinking "eh, send it!" it's funny to watch. Hahaha.
Haha Cale is a special breed and I love him for it. Hopefully one day I’ll have a job for him and be able to hire him!
The Gremlin is the most totally bitchin" car AMC ever made!!!!!! it's like a coolest AMC pony car, to compete with the Camaro, Maverick, Mustang, Firebird, Falcon, Valiant, Duster, and Challenger
I live in Tennessee, and we don't have rust down here either. I bought cars for a salvage yard for years. I bought over 15,000 cars while I was there, and I have only seen one older car with significant rust. I didn't buy it due to the rust, lol.
Burnt atf would be dark brown like used engine oil or black like very used engine oil.. Transmission fluid over time will change from red to pink to then light light brown to then darker shades of brown to black.. that Transmission fluid looks Decent if its a Automatic Transmission @Sally's Speed Shop
Working brakes and has Fluid Impressive Derek From VGG Would be so Jealous Bro @Sally's Speed Shop
Amc was a simple car with few things to go wrong. Love to have a 60s rambler.
Wow he is building a charger from the ground up nice Bud
I used a radiator hose for a filler neck in old car I was working on once, and it held for years. The filler neck was unavailable, and finding a '79 Volare parts car is not exactly easy in my neck of the woods, so I didn't have a choice. I never had a problem out of it.
I watch a lot of these types of vids and I'm supprised at what you can get away with in your country. Here in Australia, if we have so much as a scratch with a bit of rust showing it's off the road till it's repaired. I see you guys ( various other vids too ) driving around with half the floor rusted out & going to car shows like that with a few plates rivited in.
Dump a bunch of bb’s in the tank and strap it on the back of a dirt bike and go do the whoop’s at the local mud hole!👍
I know that this sounds crazy, but I'd LOVE to have a Gremmie. I'd yank that inline six and swap in either a Neon SRT4 engine, or a fully built 4g63t with a standalone engine controller, FULL bolt-ons for the engine (including a much larger turbo), and have an adapter made to mate it to a Nissan CD009 six speed manual. I'd replace the front seats with racing bucket seats like NRG or something, I'd remove or recover the rear seats, I'd get a new carpet set for it, I'd get a full array of aftermarket gauges, and I'd replace the steering wheel with something aftermarket. I'd also address the entire suspension, the braking system, and I would sand the ENTIRE car down and spray paint it as nicely as I can. I think it'd make for a cool little road race car.
My first car was a 78 Gremlin 3 speed in the floor. I was a sophomore in high school in 1993.
You’re gonna hate those pull and turns knobs. I use to have a bunch of hemostats locked on them.
Another excellent video. There is nothing devilish about THIS Gremlin; it's as friendly as can be. I would have been stumped to a standstill if I'd tried diagnosing what you fellows sorted out. The sleuthing out of the niggling problems is marvelous. Occasionally janky, but it gets the job done. That job is: more fun road trip adventures! Looking forward to riding with back from Indiana to Georgia with you guys. Take care and aloha!
Haha it certainly has some weird stuff going on, but George as we’ve come to call this little car is quirky in a good way!
What would have been really funny , is if you turned on the radio while all of you were in it and the first song was " Bohemian Rhapsody " .
Sorry to go off topic, but the Plymouth behind the gremlin in the garage looks awesome!
Gotta love a good Ramcharger!
Yes more AMC content!!!
Yes sir! Still more to come! 😊
@@SallysSpeedShop gives me more motivation to work on my AMC cars
Lots of fun... good stuff! Dad had a 1973 Gremlin in copper brown.
Lol. I have become a pre safety gas can hoarder. I have several in every size now. Whenever I come across one, I grab it whether I need it or not. I even some metal ones, lol.
What a clean car for how long it sat. Would have rusted away here in Michigan. This thing would go perfect with all my oddball cars.
It's truly amazing how good of shape it's in! You should find yourself a Gremlin and put an engine in the back haha
Hey bud, for future reference, when you're trying to clean out a fuel tank like that, throw some cheap marbles in it and that'll help break up any potential rust while y'all shake it.
Luckily it had zero rust in it! But yup, throwing some old nuts and bolts or even some gravel in it is my usual go to trick for that haha
my first car was a 1975 gremlin, straight 6, 4 wheel drum brakes.. if I knew then what I know now I'd still have it :)
I had a friend of mine that had a new 1976 gremlin dark green w white stripe 4cyl and I think 3 speed on the floor and he put wide tires on the back with air shocks and traction bars big fun lol
The seat belts on my 74 Gremlin had to be connected to start the car! It was a safety thing that proved to be ridiculous if you needed to start the car and escape a bad situation. Tossing a damp rag under the seat caused me grief when it shorted out the seat belt system. I think that's what your wire issue is.
Now that's interesting! I never considered the seat belts to be what was cutting power to the ignition haha
Rare car worth saving!
Really like this car. Great vidja as always. Thanks
Awesome so easy to working
Jacob thanks to your crew. Great start and drive.Enjoyed your video! 💯👍👊
Thank you Terry!
My first car ,the year after I'd graduated from high school in 1973 was a 1973 Gremlin X with a 258. In 1978 I removed the anemic 6 cylinder and replaced it with a mildly modified AMC 360 with a 727 chrysler automatic. I beefed up the suspension but not the brakes. It was incredibly fast but didn't like to stop. A real fun car to drive. I wish I still had it. Any chance yours will be for sale?
Figures, you have the key for the locking gas cap and it doesnt work, you end up breaking off the cap anyway!
I should have known it was too good to be true haha
Yeah when I was a kid my mom had the gremlin we had it parked on the hill so we can pop the clutch my dad had a the Pacer
Haha that's a clever way to get around the issue!
Yeah if you don't have a e brake you just gett a brink and hopefully your car will be there in the morning
Coweta county!! Nice you guys are local. Hello from Cherokee County!
We've got family in Woodstock! Small world. 🙂
Great video. Awesome car
Thank you Chris!
Love Gremlins. Amazing little car. You got lucky. I put distilled water in all my vehicles . Keeps the electrolysis down.
That's always the best thing to do! Unless you can get away with running 100% antifreeze and it still cooling properly. That prevents all corrosion.
I discovered you today. Nice man. It'd be cool to see a paint job revival on this
Wow Jacob I can't believe how much stuff still works on the old girl I hope you Fix this one up since you have access to all those original parts in Wisconsin it would be so awesome to see her brought back to original but maybe Spice it up with a mean V8 under the hood make her a little Sleeper and Stun Some Mustang and Mopar owners Lol 🤣
I would love to do something cool with this thing in the future! I have some crazy ideas haha For now the Javelin and the OG Green Hornét are going to take precedence over this one and we’ll just enjoy driving it for a while 👍🏼
We Gremlin people prefer the term "bijou" when describing the size of our cars. 😁
Haha can't say I've ever heard that term!
Awesome video gentlemen
That 9” rear is going to be a great addition to the javelin
Awesome buy. Very sweet patina, too( it isn't always like that).
We definitely were fortunate with this car! It’s a little gem!
That gremlin is amazingly clean considering how much crap you had to pull out of it. This would be amazing to restore, or convert to a rally car. I do have one complaint about your videos though, and it comes from getting motion sick. Can you not whip your camera around so much, or at least edit the motion down a bit? I love the content, but you do make me a bit dizzy. Also, good on you for calling out your friend and getting them views. I appreciate content creators that support other content creators.
They have ASTRO turf carpet tiles ..lol
Either make a ls sleeper with or mount on a Geo Tracker chassis with LS and 4X4
Imagine cramming a 4.0 from a cherokee and bore & stroking it with some boost
26:34 In response to the back tires rubbing did you guys remember to mount that shock back up to the actual mount?…
Nope, we just removed it entirely because it literally flopped around with no resistance on the strut itself
Great video! My wife wants a gremlin or pacer! Hopefully I can do a similar video soon!
They’re great cars! Let me know if you end up finding one!
If you don't mind a car from Mexico I can find you a really nice Gremlin. I haven't seen a nice Pacer in a while though.
What the heck, so it seems that I buy an AMC and every TH-camr I watch then revive an AMC. I like it lol
We bought our first in 2015. Currently have 4 Hornets, a Javelin, Pacer and now a Gremi!
@@timdavis_365 Nice collection you got going! We just bought an Eagle a couple months back. But our daily drivers for the last 6 years has been a couple old Chevy squares, but my eagle is gonna be added for a choice on the dailies. I’m hooked on AMC now
AMC is the best!
This car makes it hard to disagree with that haha
I hope he got his 10 bucks for Liking it lmfao 😂😂 @Sally's Speed Shop
He did indeed!
@@SallysSpeedShop lmfao 🤣
the grand lemon with a 258 inline in it.
The patena is so beautiful I love it ❤
This has a bulletproof 232 straight 6, (not slant 6) My 1974 AMC Hornet wagon had a 258ci straight 6, army green with woody trim, called the Hornet "Sportabout wagon" that my father and I drove down the Al-Can highway from Alaska to Texas in January of 1986.
We have three Sportabout wagons. 😂
As I said before, Gremlins are strange little cars and aptly named.
I gotta say it lol stick a rag in the fuel filler light it and bam instant rocket car with a bang 😅
I'm surprised at how Solid the Gremlin is!!
Would be CooL to see You put a 5.7, 6.2 or 6.4 Hemi in it.
That would be an absolute riot for sure!
I think you got me hooked on AMCs now. I'd love to find a Ambassador 880 4DR but a Little MPG Get'er Sounds a lot more fun.
Haha glad I was able to be a positive influence in your life 😅 They’re really great cars honestly!
@@SallysSpeedShop 😁 I've got a nasty built stage 2 Buick v6 I would slap into one if i could find Any. hahaha.
Idk how those floors are so mint.
It's kinda unbelievable. The car lived at 6,000 ft above sea level for the past 32 years, in Bon Carbo, Colorado. That probably had something to do with it.
Hey! If you guys need parts, ive got a free 3 speed manual and other stuff for that car. Hell ive even got a wide track amc 20 rear end out of a v8 car if your gonna v8 swap!
Depending on where you are I may have to take you up on some stuff!
@@SallysSpeedShop WI.
I remember a friend of mine bought a brand new Gremlin when they first came out. A week after he took delivery the speedometer fell out while we were driving down the highway.
Haha that's some serious build quality right there! Must have been built on a Monday morning!
That was a factory option.
wish i still had my 75 silver hatchback X levi's 304 3 speed stick i bot new. rare now you have to find one to make run
That's definitely a rare combo!
That's almost like driving a Molotov Cocktail
Ah, it'll be fine haha Just don't light the rag on fire!
Well, they are the same vintage as the Pinto... Lol!
@@SallysSpeedShop LOL that's kind of what I was afraid of. Should have put up a no smoking sign .
I kind of think a opossum lived in there. Enjoying these videos 👍👍
Haha possibly for sure!
I had one just like that,mine was a 3 speed on the floor....man could it burn the tires
Did it burn both or just one? 😅 haha
@@SallysSpeedShop Posi track
Great job guys 👍👍
Awwwwesome, new video!!
Yes sir! Thanks for your continued support Bill!
Floor panels looks nice in that car that's cool the more you learn about AMC's The Cooler they are How about a 72 Gremlin XR 401 Edition not many were built the guy dynoed his one Dino one pull it made 540 at the wheels carburetor of course not tuned just think what a missile that was you could buy at your MC dealer back in the day have a great day
The floor panels are legitimately perfect! Minus one weird thing you'll see in the next video haha And wow, that sounds rowdy!
Love the show. God Bless you guys. 😊
Thanks for watching!
Good.job😄😄👍👍👏👏👏.amc.cool.😍😍😍
I bet the wipers work too.
You have to act out the Wayne's world singing sequence.
Haha we'll have to do that with our Pacer revival video
Yes that was a new starter solenoid in the mustang. Ask me how I know lol.
I still need to send a new one for the car haha I totally forgot about it till I was editing this video!
Just learned yesterday from a 2Vintage video. Soak the lock cylinder down for the gas door in wd40.
That would do the trick generally. Apparently not with this one haha
This car, WANTS, to live and, keep living.
It definitely seems to want to live on!
BTW the gremmy grille should swap right over to the early hornets, looks better that way imho.
I personally like the Hornet grill better I think. Looks like a little Nova haha
@@SallysSpeedShop haha fair enough! Love your AMC vids keep it up.
Green gas very lovely yummy 😂😂
Always wanted one since I watched Waynes World
Wayne's World was actually a Pacer but... close enough! 😂
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How long do we have to wait for the next video? I’m hooked
It's not the original gas cap. The original cap had a gremlins head on it.
Yup! But actually having the key to the gas cap that was on the car when it was parked is an anomaly to say the least!
@Sally's Speed Shop you're a blessed man to have one to call your own. When I was in high school, they were everywhere. My friend had one of the 'Levi Jeans' Gremlins. The interior was covered in Levi. Have you ever seen one?
@@ScottsafriendofGod I have indeed! We’re probably going to recover our seats in recycled jeans from Goodwill 😂
I wish my 74 gremlin x had manual brakes. I've been trying to find a booster and everything for it so I can drive it. Shoehorned a 327 chevy it it for a little bit of fun. Only because the inline six decided the internals needed a window to se out of lol
You can always swap out the brake booster and power master for a manual one! And ah yeah, that'll do it!
You should have gotten a junkyard engine.
I'm at 37 min in the video and I'm wondering if you checked to see if the wipers worked
I don't think I checked the entire weekend of working on it haha
if it shut off with the key for some reason, did it re-start again with the key?
Nope! It has a mind of its own haha
I loved this video and I will be honest hanging out with you guys would be a lot of fun. I am looking forward to the next video I have faith you guys will definitely make the trip. I can see it being an interesting trip but I know you will definitely make it safely.
Thank you James! I like to think we're at least moderately fun to hang out around!
Ford starter solenoid and it doesn't work? What?(sarcastically said)😮
I have always loved the Gremmy. But, they were notorious for have a seriously unreliable power train.