[elky] Re: 76 GMC Sprint --- pictures attached (hopefully)
- From: STILLFRANKSFAULT@xxxxxxx
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 14:32:20 -0400 (EDT)
wow, she's ready for the car show. Does it have AC?
Smokey Mt Frank
In a message dated 5/29/2011 10:46:03 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
saulmarsh72@xxxxxxxxx writes:
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:
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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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