We're better now...just too tired on Friday night. I took my son on a few errands yesterday and he loves it. Wants to go everywhere in the truck. He even said maybe it can be his first car (10 years from now). Given how long I hold onto cars, that's very feasible (on my end at least :) ) I haven't been using the radio so far. It's a long reach from the driver's seat to the radio, so I can see why some car radios advertise having a remote control. There is some sort of subwooferish thing attached behind the driver's seat and the sound is good. My hail damaged hyundai is now parked outside, and the '76 Sprint gets the garage treatment now. Doors are massive and might be easy to bang up. The driver's side window doesn't roll down. That was the biggest design flaw of this generation of elky...cumbersome doors and windows. Gonna try to insert some photos here: ________________________________ From: Mary McCarthy <printces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sat, May 28, 2011 11:54:16 AM Subject: [elky] Re: 76 GMC Sprint Yeah, I noticed that radio pod right away. Slick. The whole car looks great. there are bumps in the road of all marriages - you're trying to meld two personalities into one. Just let it go and don't simmer on it. You both had a stressful day. I've thrown a couple bi-centennial things into Sprints box. I have a flag, a license plate, things like that. someday.. Oh, and a couple cool road maps. (didja know I 84 was once known as I 80 north? ) Car looks great, I hope you both have many happy miles and many happy family days at car events in it. We just call sprint "Sprint". But the license plate in my head is LRAMINO to reflect that huge front end with the push bars. Mary This is the Sprint I bought today. It looks as nice in person as the pictures suggest :) > >http://kansascity.craigslist.org/ctd/2388156023.html > >Interior is nice too. Re-covered cloth bench seat, no cracks in dash or >windshield, and the air conditioning blows cold. Car spent most of its life >in >Arizona and I couldn't find any rust on it. Just drove it from Independence, >Missouri to Wichita (about 200 miles) and ran great, although I notice it does >tend to vibrate and rattle a bit like my old Nova used to. > > >Wife and son seemed to like the car, but that hasn't gone well so far. Wife >got >frustrated trying to follow me home and we ended up bickering over the phone >the >whole time. Won't go into that much more other than to say that's why I'm >writing from work at 2 a.m. Trying to cool down before I finally go back >home. >I really was hoping this car would be something for the family, and they do >like >the car; just too much complaining about how late it was by the time we >finally >got back. > >If I had been smart, I would have waited until tomorrow (well today now) and >tried to drive my old '73 Sprint to Independence. The place I bought this >'76 from is a classic car showroom that has a body shop and junkyard nearby, >and >maybe I could have traded in my old one as well as handle all transport >myself. >Not sure my old Sprint would have made the trip, though. I will need to find >another way to get rid of it locally. I don't want to hold onto it long. I >wonder if it would sell immediately if I put a $500 price on the window. It >does run, and has a 350, but looks terrible and has choke and exhaust problems >that could be mistaken for engine problems by some. > >I've had my old '73 Sprint "Clustertruck" for six years now, and was beginning >to enjoy learning a little about car repair on a car that didn't have much >value >to it. I wish I could still do that, but I also want my six-year-old boy to >actually be able to ride in it, and honestly he'd probably be 18 before I felt >like it was safe for anything other than a work truck. Now I have a fairly >pristine '76 that I don't want to cut up or dig into too much. And I plan on >fully insuring it. > >Might try to find a name for my new 1976 truck, but 1973 "Clustertruck" is the >only car I've owned (out of 8 now) that I ever bothered to give a name. Maybe >I >could come up with something having to do with the bicentennial, and buying it >in a town called Independence, which happens to be Harry Truman's hometown. > >Will be a little while before I get to do much with it. I leave for vacation >the day after Memorial Day. Hope we're getting along better by then. > >Not expecting anyone to be up at the moment, but it does help to write and I >think I own a nice El Camino now! > > >
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