1970 AMC Gremlin Dealer Promo Film
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- 1970 AMC Gremlin Dealer Promo Film
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My first car was a Gremlin. Bought it for $500. Drove the snot out if it for 3 years and sold it back to the original owner for $500. One of the most fun, rugged little cars I've owned. Lots of fond memories with it. Wish that I could find one in decent shape.
I'm ready to buy one...great sales video.
Bud Lindemann had one of the best descriptions for the Gremlin - "The front half looked like a pretty nice car, but they must have lost interest when they got to the back half and ended the whole thing in a hurry"
My parents bought two new ones when I was a kid.... the 2nd one was a Gremlin X with the 304 and it was super cool!!!
Wow, I'd love to have a Gremlin X right now. The Gremmie was a SOLID choice for the then NEW "Gen X" driver in the early 1980s, and there were TWO that were desired: The "Levi's" and the "X". I had a '72 Sportabout in 1982, So I guess I just "super-sized" the AMC Hornet derived concept. 👍😊👍
Watching this old filmstrip is great! It brings back many memories of watching them in high school. It must be forty years since I last heard that "ping" sound which signals when it is time to turn to the next slide!
Bring back the ping!
It was on this date 50 years ago, April 1st 1970, the AMC Gremlin debuted and changed the automotive scene, it paved the way for American subcompact cars.
Beating Ford and Chevy by six months. AMC was an awesome company.
@@anthonyfalzon2100 Yes they were, they made cars that were affordable and yet simple enough to repair and maintain for the average person.
And horribly built
How informative these commercials were back in the day!
In 1980 that was my first car 6 cyls. straight line engine, now lam 63 Driving a Mercedes GL 450 but my first car remains in my heart.
Had one in late 80s was hanging Dry Wall had a inline 6,3 man crew all tools +3 scaffolds on roof,no problem!
Nice to see another company, "MyMopar" recognize AMC. It's not nor will ever be a Mopar. Long live AMC!
AMC is dead. But there sure are a lot of running AMCs yet, fortunately.
@@KC9UDX my first car was a 73 amx 401 4 on the floor I got gremlin x 304 3 on the floor n put a 390 n a t10 4 speed in it cut the top off weld the doors up n put roll bar in it n got a lot of tickets
73 n good dx n9prf
@@joerowland7350 lucky duck! My first car was an 84 Firechicken. I got a lot of tickets in that. I knew a guy who had an 81 Spirit and his car was more fun. I didn't get a good opportunity to buy an AMC until 1998. But I've had 5 others since and the only other things I've bought were AMC designed Jeeps. Well I did buy one old GMC because AMC never made a ¾ ton van, unfortunately.
Amen brother! You nailed it
In spite of this dealer promo video, the Gremlin was the best selling AMC ever.
With the rear seat down, the gremlin was GREAT as a two seater.....
In 1970 and 1971 the Gremlin was sold as a two seat car. The Gremlin Business coup. The rear glass was sealed and could not be opened. AMC sold two cars as two seaters the Gremlin and the AMX. Only one other car was sold as a two seater those years. The Chevrolet Corvette.
I’d rather own this than a stupid smart car
The car was inexpensive to tool from the existing Hornet, only $6 million more than the $40 million the development of the Hornet cost. The Gremlin was a high quality for a low cost to the buyer, sturdy and powerful. It was a very good car starting at only $1879. Disc brakes would have been a great item on the car, especially with the larger six or V8, but was still a great car for little money. The short wagon-like body was very useful for business, and some Gremlins I owned were trusty business cars.
The whole "Hornet" platform was a bargain at $40 Million. (If NOT for AMC, But the REST of the auto world) It lasted until 1988 and created the modern "crossover". AMC was there DECADES before!
I love Gremlins.
Me too
The Gremlins were great.....just a little odd looking for that time in history,......the best gremlin would be the 'Gremlin X' with the 304 v8 engine-or the Levi's addition Gremlin with real jean material for the seats😊
I bought a brand new Gremlin X in 1972. 304 with a 3 on the floor. Driving that car was the most fun you could have with your clothes on. It would put a good run on a 318 Duster.
You think the Gremlin looked odd, what about the AMC Pacer?
@@paradoxdea Both designed by Richard Teague.
1972 Gremlin XR-401…
Wow. What a blast from the past.
We bought a 1971 Gremlin, and drove it until 1977, when I bought a full size car. I called it my gold gremlin, and many miles were put on it when we drove from the city to the country for work, about 350 mi per week. Never broke down, never wrecked, and was reliable.
When I was a kid, I thought this was the coolest looking car.
I still think they are
Gremlins were a cozy comfortable car and even the inline 6cyl engine was dependable and even made the gremlin scoot down the road quite quick. And the gas mileage was awesome.
One of my favorite cars of all time.
LOL. Love how they misspelled Datsun as "Datson"
Thats how it was spelled then. They changed the name for an easier pronuntiation.
@@alexggg7230 Also, it was discovered that the literal translation of Dat Son was "Hare Loss".
@@That_AMC_Guy Didn t know that thx
The Nissan Motor Company was looking for a “less foreign” name for their cars prior to introducing them into the USA. A prospective dealership franchise owner from Texas saw the preproduction car Nissan was going to import and he exclaimed “Datson bitch sure is small!”
And Datsun was born.
@@alexggg7230 It wasn't spelled that way since 1934, but whatever.
My grandfather had a gremlin when I was a kid. And when it finally died he bought a Pacer LOL but I still have the two Gremlin emblems from the sides of the car. I got one hanging up in my basement and one hanging up upstairs, they are great memories
The hindsight of this video is enormous
I love these vids!!! Back in the mid '70s i did yard worrk for album money and such. One gal had a metallic grey Gremlin i'd wash and wax once a month. I swear, it looked better than examples here.
Think it was the Gremlin spunk that got the Pacer pregnant.
@G Michael Leonard that was funny. you are not.
HA HA!
I always felt AMC never really got a good break; their cars were not only unique, but packaged fairly. You could get some really nice standard options. Folks got to experience something fun and unique without having to spend the current equivalent of 60k. And their Buyer Protection Plan was really something at the time. I feel like AMC really tried to earn people's business. This was as good, as innovative, as domestic cars got in the 70s.
The Gremlin actually flipped AMC a profit, people retro look back and say it's junk, but allowed AMC to stick around and wasn't bad for the competition it was against. I only wish AMC had the funds to fully develop the Pacer without all the shortcuts they had to make, which sucked up all their cash as it was, and killed them off.
All the sorry Chevy and Mopar owners talked trash about AMC, and that's what everyone remembers. UAW killed AMC as a threat to GM.
You do realize that the Pacer was to be equipped with a GM supplied Wankel motor. While GM developed the motor, AMC designed the car. At the last moment GM pulled the engine because of sealing problems and AMC was stuck with that wonderful and dependable but horrible overweight 258 in-line six. Man what a car the Pacer would have been if history and fate went after Gm instead of AMC.
AMC cars were quite underrated.
Please more AMC dealer promo films!
I had one with a 304V8 and three speed manual..,It was pretty quick for its day..
I had a Sportabout with the 258 and the automatic and I never thought of it as slow. So Yeah - a Gremlin with the 304 would have been quick enough for anyone in his right mind.
It’s a Hornet with the rear end chopped off lol
That's exactly right. That was no secret.
I like quirky cars, so I would love to take one of these for a spin.
Beat Pinto and Vega into the marketplace by half a year.
@@matthewkoch6937 I remember my high school math teacher had one. It was certainly unique 😎
My sister had a Gremlin, lucky for her she didn't get a Vega or Pinto. Gremlin was very reliable.
Dan R Not sure they were “very” reliable.
They were about the same as most 60's cars. Having owned a Vega, the Gremlins were much superior from that point. One would have been better off getting a Hornet. You get into that class, a Dodge Dart was hard to beat.
1974 AMC Gremlin was very reliable for me .
Dan R The safer bet was to avoid the Vega and AMC’s. Go with other GM or Ford models or even a Toyota. These cars didn’t make AMC great.
It's straight six was bullet-poof.
Built tough like a tank - dependable.
My grandpa bought a brand new '72 gremlin. The front fenders rusted thru after only 3 years!!! It ran really good but it was uglier than poop & rusted faster than you could drive it!! after 3 years he traded it in for a used '73 Pontiac Ventura, which lasted 6 years... USED!!!
Yep. Heard it a million times from guys who never owned one.
Seeing a new Beetle makes me drool.
0:21. AMC had such little regard for their foreign competitors, they didn't even bother to spell the name Datsun correctly.
Frank Howard actually datsun was called datson when the imports came in the mid 60s, then nissan changed the name to datsun in the 70s for the 240z i belive
Zli. I believe that Nissan changed the name Datson to Datsun in 1934. Check it out at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datsun
Frank Howard huh the guys at amc were sure ignorant
Yah, I've never seen any Datsun branded 'Datson', even the old Bluebirds. I'm sure some flat-earther around here believes otherwise.
Parents got a '72 when I was seven. Held up pretty good. Got ten yrs. out of it.
I love both the gremlin and beetle and I want them
They should make these cars again . same everything , use that add during the superbowl
Some of my family had air cooled Beetles and said it wasn't fun in the winter with no heat.
the bug's heater used air heated by the exhaust manifolds. the slightest exhaust leak could filter into the cabin. never a good idea
Mine had no heat, scrape the inside of window in the winter, but my sister had a gas heater, warm before you got out of the driveway.
I had a VW beetle through college in the northeast, and the heater worked great. Many people simply did know to operate it, with the defroster flaps and all.
"Lets put some more windows in it?"
"We're saving glass for the Pacer."
A friend had a Gremlin. It was a very comfortable, attractive, well built and ultra reliable car.
American Motors made excellent and reliable cars, but they were a tiny Mid-Western company that had no chance of competing with the big 3.
A lot of that had to do with the Lobbiests of The Big Three padding the pockets of the Bureaucrats in Washington DC.
The American Motors Corporation was an assimilation of other previous car companies into one: Willies Oberlin, Nash Hudson, Kaiser, Stutz, Oakland, Studebaker, Franklin and Frazier and the American Motors Corporation were closely affiliated with Chrysler Corporation as both were Mopar Products.
Like Chrysler Corporation American Motors outsourced mechanical component manufacturing to the Motor Parts Corporation or Mopar as they're better known as opposed to Ford and General Motors who's components were made in house under FoMoCo for Ford now it's Motorcraft and AC /Delco/ Remy for General Motors for those unaware AC was a subsidiary of Autolite, Delco was John Delorean and Remy a subsidiary of Remington Firearms.
Upon the bankruptcy of American Motors Corporation they sold their holdings to fellow Mopar family member Chrysler Corporation who primarily bought the holding and rights for the brands of Jeep and Eagle and when Eagle slumped in the market it was resold to Pugeot/Renault and Eagle sales did better in the European market, Chrysler Corporation still utilizes some American Motors Corporation model names such as the Concord and it's rumoured that Chrysler may reintroduce the Javelin in the Dodge Charger/Challenger and Magnum lines as another sport model.
@@roya.cathcartjr.5042 What the hell is Willies Oberlin??? Did you by chance mean WILLYS OVERLAND? LOL.
Pretty much everything you typed after that is a complete untruth. Please stop spreading false information.
AMC was started by the merger of Nash and Hudson, nobody else. AMC also never went bankrupt. Their majority shareholder, Renault Motors of France sold their controlling interest to the Chrysler Corporation. Yes, AMC did outsource component manufacturing just like every other car company has done since the beginning of time.
The Remy portion of Delco-Remy was Remington firearms?? My god. A simple google search would put that lie to rest. Ditto Delco. John Delorean had nothing to do with it. Wow. Sit down before you hurt yourself.
@@That_AMC_Guy Lol you beat me too it. Too many false hoods to name. . All manufactures traded parts, In the early 50 Lincoln even used the GMC hydra matic transmissions. In the 70s Amc used the Chrysler torque flite. Many cars used other ignition systems and later their anti pollution systems too. There was a lot more horse trading going on behind the scene between the different manufactures then is commonly known.
Bot VW and Gremlin were a hoot to drive. I owned both at one time or another.
The DATSON typo for the fourth-place foreign maker drew my attention. A friend had a Gremlin at the end of our college days. His didn't rust, the scary times came from doing socially/legally unacceptable things with an easily distracted driver.
Los verdaderos años dorados... cuando TODO tenía su propia personalidad... Gracias por compartirlo! Aplauso largo desde Argentina.
some company as the chassis for Torino Renault
3:06 That gas cap was stolen from about half of all Gremlins within the first 6 months.
and some owners forgot to put it back on, at the new self service gas stations
Lol why was the gas cap stolen?
Christopher Conard why was the gas cap stolen? Just curios lol
they were a expensive and colored the same as the car, they stole 1965-66 Mustangs gas caps more as those were quite nice , people were hanging them on the wall
Same for my 70 maverick
Gremlins a good looking car.
Omg I wish I could find one
I loved this car my aunt had one
My first car! 💕
Nice name.
Gremlin, attacking Germany since 1970 1/2
Showing my age ...
Bought a new 1971 Gremlin in Jan of 1972...
😂😂
In 2005 & 2007 I bought 2 Hummers (H1 and a H2)
Time flies...
I miss my Gremlin I had fun with it .
good old days
This Kenosha resident digs it !!.
Hey Mopar why not bring back a retro Javlin ?.
@G Michael Leonard A lot of people wanted a Javelin, especially after the styling was sharpened up for the second generation (71-74). It's just that AMC couldn't make and sell as many cars as the Big Three under any circumstances because it was the little guy. Also, MoPar is a common term for the Chrysler Corporation. They most certainly build vehicles.
Please don't bring back any AMC. Keep your Fiats. Don't trash the AMC name.
I had a 73 light blue hornet two door the window sales sheet was left in the glove box it was $1798 new
I worked at AMC 1979 tru 1987
You can put your guitar and amp in the Gremlin! And did I say it hauls ass? They never mentioned what a death trap rear engines are.
The Bug Boosters starring Linda Ronstadt & Dick York with special guest appearance by Janis Joplin.
This really makes me want a new 71 bug
When you consider that it’s American competition either rusted on the showroom floor and burned oil by 30k (Vega) or blew up ( Pinto) it wasn’t a bad car.
You don't know what you're talking about.
One Michigan Winter and the quarter panels were eaten away to the wheel wells from salt.
Such a reliable car!
This thing reminded me how up until 1990's, every show, film, and commercial featured someone with an eastern US jewish accent. People we never saw or met.
Jewish accent ⁉️ What is that 🤣
You need therapy.
Great car
Back in 1970 the bettle is trash but nowadays they are both great
2:46 'That's a lot of spunk'. Means something completely different here in the UK. :D
Brian Damaged Maybe they were talking about the back seat.
Brian Damaged lol. Nice!!
"I spunked whilst tossing off in the loo" doesn't have any meaning to us over here...
What do you mean?
Ok, I'll take one, thanx, Where do I sign?
One of the best car that ever came out of Detroit
Delta Floss Your definition of cars must be different that the rest of the world. That’s like saying Rosie O’Donnell is the prettiest girl in America. These cars were junk.
This did not come out of Detroit. This came out of Kenosha Wisconsin AMC factory.
My grandpa bought one new. Rusted faster than you could drive it!!! A real shit box!!
@@shawnmcculley2995 uh-huh. Every sorry Chevy owner has a drinking buddy that had a grandpa's second cousin that had an AMC that was pure junk.
@@melrose9252 I'd wager that either the Gremlin or the Hornet was the best American compact car you could buy in the 1970s. They were simply designed, used proven technology, and AMC was the only mass-market car maker at the time that actually cared about rustproofing.
The Gremlin was light years ahead of the "exploding" Ford Pinto and the awful Chevy Vega, with the engine that
couldn't last 50,000 miles and a body that rusted away to nothing long before that! You NEVER see either Pintos
or Vegas anymore...all were junked decades ago. But every now and then, you'll see an old Gremlin. Sure, it's probably
pretty beat up and has its share of rust...but it's STILL RUNNING! And over the past 50 years, they've actually become
somewhat of a cult car...it's wonderful!
The Pinto was a great little car if optioned right.
My father bought one of these new and has had many cars in his long life. He said it was the worst car he had ever owned. It had the ability to get the driver into dangerous situations faster than any other car he ever had. He is a very safe driver but totaled the Gremlin when in rolled on a gravel road after losing control.
Hey lady, what happened to the rest of your car?
When i got in my 72 and closed the door the bottom of the windshield would move a half inch!
I wonder about all those young executives from styling and marketing looking at the mock-up of the Gremlin. Silence. Then all at once: oh yes, lets build this! Chopped back end: beautiful! Awkward look, perfect! Oh heck yeah, let's mass produce this one! They must be the same mob that many years later said the same things about the Pontiac Aztek.
Actually, AMC sold over 100K the first year.....the Aztek....they couldn't give away.
Oh good gawd, really? What ugly beasts. Both of them. The AMC Matador for all its ugliness had a charisma about it and rode like a lincoln.
Ugly is in the eye of the beholder.
Incidentally, had a car that looked like the Gremlin been released fifteen years ago, the only thing that would stand out is that it's a two-door.
The 4 cylinder gremlin had an audi 2 liter engine. From the audi 100
Had they forgotten that the pinto and vega were also introduced in 1970? The gremlin was not the only American sub-compact.
The Gremlin was the first! The others wouldn't have been launched by the time this film was released.
True that!
6 months before vega or pinto
The Pinto and Vega came out for the 1971 model year, in the fall of 1970. The Gremlin arrived in early April of 1970, making it a 1970 1/2 model. The Pinto was better than it's poor reputation today shows, but the Vega was a complete piece or garbage. The Gremlin was a pretty good entry in it's class, it sold well, and it made AMC quite a bit of money.
At 0:55 the slide didn't change on the ding, and lagged behind the soundtrack until 5:29
Bring back the Gremlin on April 1, 2020 for a 2021 model!!!!!!
Just buy a Fiat.
It saddens me how in the 70s people moved on from muscle cars to economy cars, like Ford Mavericks, Ford Pintos, Mercury Bobcats, Chevrolet Vegas, Pontiac Astres, Oldsmobile Omegas, Buick Apollos, AMC Hornets, AMC Gremlins, AMC Pacers, AMC Matadors, Plymouth Crickets, Dodge Colts, and so on.
OPEC and the fuel crisis suddenly made gas close to $17 a gallon in today’s dollars. Not hard to see how the 300+ HP car that got 11mpg went away. Agreed, though, sad.
Economic ? This thing had a v8 at some point
1st Generation Mustang: 2,445 pounds, Gremlin: 2633 pounds. It wasn't that people moved away from "Great" cars of the 60's, its that Detroit stopped offering reasonable cars for a bit. The Mustang 2 (2697 pounds with the 4 banger) was a correction to this bloat that Detroit's big 3 had in the late 60's. Shame they didn't keep cars like the Maverick Grabber though.
@@twotone3471 I had a Grabber. The wheel well paint washed off in chunks at the carwash. Withing 3 years it had rust perforation. Neither was it fast or good on gas. It wasn''t even attractive. Looked stupid with the fake ram air, today, the maverick grabber would be a perfect example of a ricer.
Great little car, if optioned right.
The wise guy in the background sounds like tech...the chrysler mascot.
Very cool gremlins amc/ rip
Mins
I owned a Gremlin back in 80 and I had very few problems with it although the looks were to be desired it was a great little car...at the same time I owned a 70 VW Bug and I loved that thing...that is when I could drive it...I lived in Columbus Oh and the snow or hell bad weather it was a tough car to drive...but once you got it on the street and was driving in the tire tracks of other cars it was hard to beat..the air cooled engine I really liked but my space heater at home threw out more heat than the VW gave out...and I remember the comic Jeff Dunham (ventriloquist) owns 2 Gremlins...one with a six and one with a eight cylinder...he still has them today and still loves them....
Where can I buy a new Gremlin, loaded with all the extras?
Your funny Sean, could you equip a Vega or a Pinto with a six? Could you order them with cruise control and tilt wheel? At least with the Gremlin when you activated the air conditioner you didn’t stop the car.
@@anthonyfalzon2100 I would rock the shit out of a loaded Gremlin today. Those engines were bullet proof. My friend drove a 1970 Hornet in high school and you couldn't kill that thing.
@@seand2711 so would I my friend
I dont know y anyone would buy one of those imports back in 69, gas was 25 cents a gallon here in salem oregon. U couldn't give me one of those death traps back then.
And Then The BOMB Dropped AHHH
I worked at Budget Rent a Car in 1975 and we received truck loads of brand new Gremlins, Pacers and Matadors. Some would have less than a mile on the odometer. They were really poorly built vehicles.
I think in 70 there were still pretty good, but the mid 70's was not very well built. I think AMC was running out of money, Jeep, later was their money maker and I think the reason Iacocca wanted to buy them when he was running Chrysler
Decline in overall quality throughout the 70s can be attributed to all the American car companies. I remember the days.
These regretful Chevy owners have been talking crap about AMC for decades.
If only the Gremlin had the entire rear open up instead of just the glass. It would've made loading cargo easier and the Randall 401-XR version would've been the first hot hatch, with a V8 too.
But then it wouldn't have a 21 gallon gas tank.
Halfway through the film strip the guy finally realized he was one frame behind, that's pretty f'd up.
Gr'mln was lst true Amer.-built sub-c'mpct car. It was first introduced in early-Spring, 1970
And with an aircooled engine, volkswagen required 3x more oil changes during the life of the car.
Sonny. Unless you are in the habit of changing your oil every 9,000 miles, your claim is simply not true. VW recommended changing it every 3,000 miles and when it was changed, it required only 3 quarts vs. 4 or 5 quarts for most cars. In addition there was no oil filter expense as the cars used a reusable metal screen that the owner could clean out. Overall, I believe if the owner was a do-it-yourselfer, he would spend less money on oil changes.
If you study the 1970s and the success of the VW Beetle and the growing market for Japanese cars, the Gremlin made sense.....and so did the Vega and the Pinto. Trouble with the Gremlin was it was not really a new car, just a shortened and chopped Hornet. If AMC had the resources the hood should have been about 1 foot shorter, the car about 400 pounds lighter and the rear should have been a real hatchback, not just a flip open rear window. I doubt many folks that bought Beetles ever saw the 70s American compacts as an alternative. This filmstrip is a real hoot. Notice that AMC does not try to compare the Gremlin with a Datsun or Toyota, which by 1970 were well built and got better gas mileage than any of the American cars, plus they had four doors and station wagons. Unfortunately the Gremlin never improved much, it just got bigger and more thirsty engines and lots of stripes and decals. The Japanese cars just got better and better.
The whole deal was that ALL the American MFGs did not take Japan seriously. I actually owned quite a few American Motors cars as well as the offerings from the Big Three. I found that AMC's were no better or worse than their American competitors, however they were easier to maintain. I am a mechanic by trade and have a big dislike of European cars. They are over engineered to the point of unreliability. In 2005 I made the switch to Toyota and have never looked back. Yes, I'm a auto mechanic. I don't like like working on the weekend, therefore I drive Toyota. The Gremlin is a neat little car of the seventies. A more "robust" "sub compact?" than the Pinto or Vega. Also, traveling the Interstate Highways, the most common dead car along the highway was a VW Beetle. The Gremlin was a product of it's time. If I had tons of money I'd find a factory AMC 304 V8 Gremlin, stuff an AMC 401 V8 in it and have loads of fun!!
Everything's different in retrospect.
@@gregsaunders6636I myself drive a Studebaker, because I don't like to be a boring person. That said, despite the fact that AMC was the only mass-market car maker that actually cared about rustproofing in the 1970s, I do have to admit that we made a big mistake by ignoring the encroaching imports from Europe and Japan.
The rear panel that didn't open was actually a structural body member. It helped prevent the chassis from twisting. That allowed the suspension to do a better job on rough road surfaces.
You know what boat cars the gremlin the AMC Gremlin and the Volkswagen Beetle Bug I got both and I am very happy I have a 1972 Beetle Bug and I have a 1972 gremlin I have a V8 gremlin and a straight sex gremlin and all three cars are standard that means you have to shift them and I love them
So you like to have straight sex in a boat car, well good for you. May I suggest an Amphicar?
Gremlins being RWD yet back light had the worst traction on slippery roads. Dangerous in fact. Many owners put heavy weights or bags of sand in the back to give better traction in snow.
Say what you want about the VW beetle design, but it's the best car I have seen to convert to a full EV (electric vehicle)
My dream is to overhaul a Gremlin to full EV.
La Rambler llegó a México a mediados de la 60 y sus vehículos fueron aceptados en elercado eran muy fuertes y eficientes por los 70 cambio su nombre a VAM por los 80 desapareció la marca y jamás volvieron a fabricarse
I thought it was a hatch back. Only the back window opens up?
It's a Kammback. There's a gas tank under there.
First panel misspelled "DATSUN".
No it didn't.
Keep your Mopar... No Gremlin is a Mopar.
It is now!
@@anthonyfalzon2100 unless they make a new Fiat with Gremlin badges, it sure isn't.
@@KC9UDX look, I am the biggest supporter of American Motors there is. My first car was a 1969 Ambassador, my 1973 Gremlin got me through college, my 1986 Eagle station wagon pulled an embarrassed Chevy one ton owner out of the snow. However When the merger took place in 1987 AMC became Chrysler. You can fight it or accept it. But it’s the facts.
@@anthonyfalzon2100 so you sold all your AMC's to Chrysler? If not, they were never Chryslers and aren't now. Not daimlers or fiats either. Did you know that some AMCs are still produced in China? Does that make our AMC's Dong Fengs? No.
My "88 Chrysler Eagle Wagon" is called a Chrysler in the paperwork. But Chrysler bought it already finished, from AMC before selling it to me, just like any other car dealer would. It says Chrysler, but Chrysler didn't make it, and it's not a Chrysler. It arguably was for a couple of months. Not mopar. Not at all.
@@KC9UDX yep all 15 cars including my 40’ limo are Chrysler products except for that P.O.S Lincoln town car, oh well, the truth is the truth. Some learn some don’t take care.
The VW Beetle was an amazingly well engineered car except whoever hired their idiot relative to design the windshield washer that depletes the spare tires air pressure should have been fired.
You would have to use a LOT of washer fluid to deflate the spare.( I owned 5 of them) When the bottle was empty, you had to disconnect from the tire in order to fill the bottle. No big deal to shoot some air into the tire at the same time, as you were already at the gas station. They all had free compressed air back then. Now all they have are corn dogs and candy bars to sell you when you buy gas.
They spelled Datsun wrong....there is no O
There was.
The Japanese came to the Germans and said this
“We are releasing a new car and while we build great cars, we are not good at naming them. We would like you to name it please”.
The Germans think it over and respond
“ yah, we can name your car for you, do you have a release date?”
Japanese
“Yes, in two weeks”
Germans
“DAT SOON”
Japanese
“Perfect name, Datsun, we love it. Thank you”