Groundhog Thread Part Deux - P-39 Fantasy and Fetish - The Never Ending Story (Mods take no responsibility for head against wall injuries sustained)

[wuzak]

But the P-39C was a domestic model and it had the gas heater. @Shortround6 also provided pilot manuals for the D-1 and D-2 which also showed they had the gas heater.

Please provide a source for your assertion that the D had ducted air heating.

I would like to know how much this gas heater weighed.

It must have been in the hundreds of pounds, otherwise the British would not have specified it.

 

[XBe02Drvr]

the uninformed would gobble his nonsense up as gospel (in essence, buying that low-mileage 1978 Gremlin that was only owned by a little old lady

from Pasadena?

 

[SaparotRob]

See? We suck you in with platitudes and then get you addicted on actual information. Come to the dark side...we have cookies!!!

At least that's how it's SUPPOSED to work but some people seem immune!

I loved that tee-shirt!

 

[SaparotRob]

And like you, there's about a dozen others here who aren't buying his shi...err...sales pitch, either.
But on the interwebs, there's quite a few sites where the uninformed would gobble his nonsense up as gospel (in essence, buying that low-mileage 1978 Gremlin that was only owned by a little old lady) and they wouldn't be the wiser.

What color is the Gremlin?

 

[Peter Gunn]

It's a manifestation of our sense of brotherhood and charity that we will put in all this effort to help our wayward member see the light, despite his mental attributes apparently resembling those of a creature whose contribution to the breakfast table we worship here, and whose feral cousin totes a 30MM firehose and hunts diesel armadillos for a living. Don't you find that honorable?

Uh... the... well... um...

Normally I grok the essence of your posts in their fullness but...

Huh?

As an aside, the DMV in Florida is A number 1. They get you in and out right quick, all modern with, and I know it's hard to believe, helpful civil servant types behind the counter.

 

[tyrodtom]

What color is the Gremlin?

They quit making Gremlins in 77, after that the cars that looked like Gremlins were called Spirit Kammbacks, or if 4x4, Eagle Kammback.
I've had a 77 Gremlin.

 

[SaparotRob]

So this Gremlin must be Super Rare. The heck with the color.

 

[Peter Gunn]

What color is the Gremlin?

Purple... it was purple.

100 years ago when I was a dumb teenager (is there any other kind), one of my buddies decided to drop a 327 Chevy in I think a 1974 purple Gremlin.

Nope. It could be done but I think it was determined he'd have to remove the front seats, and sit in back, change about everything yadda yadda yadda, long story short, you could make a bitchin' drag car out of it, but nothing street legal, at least now without a wheelbarrow full of money.

 

[SaparotRob]

Purple... it was purple.

100 years ago when I was a dumb teenager (is there any other kind), one of my buddies decided to drop a 327 Chevy in I think a 1974 purple Gremlin.

Nope. It could be done but I think it was determined he'd have to remove the front seats, and sit in back, change about everything yadda yadda yadda, long story short, you could make a bitchin' drag car out of it, but nothing street legal, at least now without a wheelbarrow full of money.

True story. After a wonderful day, I'm driving my girlfriend home in my '91 Escort GT. She asked me what was I thinking about. I answered "what would it take to shoe horn a Ford 302 into this car".
It stopped being a wonderful day.

 

[tyrodtom]

Purple... it was purple.

100 years ago when I was a dumb teenager (is there any other kind), one of my buddies decided to drop a 327 Chevy in I think a 1974 purple Gremlin.

Nope. It could be done but I think it was determined he'd have to remove the front seats, and sit in back, change about everything yadda yadda yadda, long story short, you could make a bitchin' drag car out of it, but nothing street legal, at least now without a wheelbarrow full of money.

I guess I've got to eat a little crow.
1978 was the last year for the Gremlin name, after that that chassis was know as a Spirit.
And I thought I was a AMC expert.

 

[SaparotRob]

Being wrong is part of being an Expert. Have you not been following this thread?

 

[tyrodtom]

Oh yes I've been following it.
I think I've made some comments earlier in it, just didn't see the sense in saying anything lately.
Until someone mentioned a AMC product.
We've all got our priorities.

 

[pbehn]

Is this the only thread on the forum where thread drift is encouraged and enjoyed?

 

[SaparotRob]

Uh... the... well... um...

Normally I grok the essence of your posts in their fullness but...

Huh?

As an aside, the DMV in Florida is A number 1. They get you in and out right quick, all modern with, and I know it's hard to believe, helpful civil servant types behind the counter.

I am only an egg.

 

[wuzak]

Only 5 more posts to 150 pages?

 

[SaparotRob]

I think we can...

 

[SaparotRob]

.....get...

 

[SaparotRob]

...close..

 

[SaparotRob]

..to..

 

[SaparotRob]

....150..