Golden Lime SC360

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Not much of an update.
But a couple of pictures from running errands with the car late last week. It’s a bunch of fun. Ran into a problem on Saturday where the car got slower and slower. After some roadside repairs I nursed it home with the throttle pedal hanging off the firewall because the wood screws installed 50ish years ago to hold it pulled out of the sheet metal.

Spent some time yesterday bolting the pedal back in and fixing the firewall a bit while Marty played with the steering wheel and jumped on the drivers seat.

If anyone is around the Morgantown Automall in PA is hosting an AMC car show Saturday. I’ll be there with the Hornet and Marty will be bringing his pedal tractor.

Thanks for reading

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Small update.

This car rules. I’ve driven the thing a ton the last couple of weeks. Life is too short to drive boring shit and worry constantly about things like fuel mileage. Get out there and use what you have. It did leave me stranded today when the brand new throttle cable came apart. It was a couple months old. A standard replacement from Crown. It sucked when I installed it, and it sucked until it came apart today. I got the car home, and took a ride to a friends where I liberated a factory 56 year old 1969 American 6 cylinder cable off a car.

That 56 year old cable functions like it was built yesterday. Modern parts are crap. Chinese parts are crap. I weep that we gave up our manufacturing might to buy bullshit parts shipped from overseas communist shitholes under the false idea it was better for our nation to become consumerist to a fault and just throw things away to buy new cheap thing from China.

America rules. American cars rule. American parts rule.

Car is on the trailer to go to a small show tomorrow in Morgantown PA. I’d drive it but my wife and son want to go and I can’t do that to them lol. If anyone wants to go I’d be great if you came up and introduced yourself. Otherwise it will get driven most everywhere this summer.

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Picture from the Saturday show. And another picture of Marty hanging out in what is quickly becoming his car. He gets mad when the steering wheel is locked so I have to unlock it so he can sit in the drivers seat and move the wheel back and forth. Still driving this thing. Though the weather in the NJ area is preventing me from driving it more. I drove it in the rain a couple times and it’s not bad but I need to rain x the windshield. I also did the Carlisle Chrysler registration so it’ll be there in July.

[Burd]

Love those cars! Great story, loved the read, You never see parts for AMC, parts just gotta be a biotch to find. I think I finally saw one Sunday at the swap

[Bill Pritchard]

That could be for a Hudson Hornet, Burd

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Been awhile since I’ve had an update on the SC. I’ve been driving it. Having a blast and using it like a car. I idle around my town with Marty since he loves sitting in it. I drive it to shows and work for fun. I’ll be at Carlisle next week for the Chrysler show with it. I did notice today the sway bar end links are loose so I’ll try to get those replaced next week.

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Another small SC update. Ran errands with the car this morning then came home and did some work on the car. I picked up a NOS set of Accel plug wires at Carlisle a few months ago and finally had time to cut and crimp them all and install them. It’s amazing to me how decades old Made In USA rubber stays so nice and supple while new Chinese stuff fails in no time. All the vacuum caps came out of a Chinese Amazon kit and they’re all cracking already.

I also took some time and replaced the sway bar end links with new USA Moog ones. They’re a different style but I’m sure they’ll work just fine. Marty and I spent some time this afternoon washing the car getting it ready for Carlisle in a few days. It needed to be vacuumed too.

The short block is another 100 dollar 360 I picked up that was remanufactured at some point in its past. It’s bored .040 over at 4.120 and the crank is .010 on the mains and .020 on the rods. I’m not using that crank though as I have a nice uncut standard 360 crank I was given months ago.

My current plan is to go to 4.155 bore(stock is 4.080) and have the crank cut offset to increase the stroke to 3.66(stock is 3.44) with NASCAR 6.200 rods that use a 1.850 rod journal. They’re super cheap on eBay. I’ll just need pistons made for it which a friend in the AMC community is offering to help me spec so I get everything correct.

I really like this car and since I’m going to keep it I figure I’ll build something nicer for it than the basic 360 I built for it last year.

The tunnel ram will absolutely stay.

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Hornet update
Been out using the car. Tomorrow my brother, my dad and I leave for Kenosha WI for their big Homecoming car show they put on once every 3 years. Pretty excited to go as this will be my first year going. I’d like to bring Marty too but it’s too far to drive right now and unfortunately I gave him the summer cold I picked up last week. My brother has no interest in cars but according to him there are some great golf courses up there and he’s a big golfer so he’s going with us. Will make for a fun trip.
Got the car washed and ready today. Tightened up bolts and went over things so I can drive the car around Kenosha for a couple of days. I also changed out all of the gauges from the garbage that Williamsons instruments did for me. They suck by the way. To an old pair of SW gauges and A 55 year old Sun Super Tach signed by Richard Ruth. I met him at MCACN and have been lucky enough to strike up a friendship with him. He signed this Super Tach for me at the show. I wanted this one signed because it’s the exact model used in the 55 in Two Lane Blacktop.

First picture is my dad and I at Carlisle Chryslers. We only stayed Friday but had fun.
Next couple of pictures is working on the car getting it ready for Kenosha. The front wheel bearings needed to be tightened a touch and the front drums needed to be adjusted. I greased the front end and replaced the fuel filter. It was clean but has been on the car since I put it on the road over a year ago.

Last picture was Marty supervising my work on the car the other day while sitting on a 360 AMC block laying by the garage.

Thanks for reading and I’ll try to post an update or two from Kenosha over the next few days.

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Just wanted to post one picture I’m really proud of. My dad took a photo of me this morning on the shore of Lake Michigan in Kenosha. This is the site of AMC’s Lakefront plant, now a city park. Tonight there is another show at the site of AMC’s assembly plant. Now the Kenosha Innovation neighborhood.

We spent the day driving all over Kenosha in the car and going to lunch. It was really a great time today.