Or better yet, give it a Rolls Royce grille and call it the Spirit of Unending Despair.

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Free Car, just have to remove the tree that has grown in the driver side rear quarter panel and the six couches that are stashed behind it.

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Plus, this would also make a great PCH as I would be irresistably tempted to make it into a malaise custom.

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The AMC's "coil over upper A-arm" front suspension isn't known for much more than crippling understeer under almost any conditions. The cart-style leaf springs would just bounce the tail around behind you at odd and interesting angles. And the early-style unibody had the torsional rigidity of a cooked rigatoni noodle -- before the rust set in. By now, all it'd be doing is popping suspension bolts out of the car with any serious sideload. Exciting to be sure, but potentially crippling ... for the car and for you.

So as a silhouette body to hang over, say, an all-out tube-framed track car or a NASCAR modified, free would be a nice price. But this car has LeMons-class crack pipe written all over it.

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/This coming from a guy who would use this as a daily driver because he has no car of his own and probably not even enough money to get this in a condition past "barely just running"

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You get a call. Bubba says you can have the car. Fine, you jump in and back up to the trailer and bang....you dent the rear bumper because you are so excited to get a free car.

Once hooked up you take the long drive and then suddenly, smoke from the rear axle of the trailer. Your bearing on the passenger wheel just locked up. So, off to fix it. A hour or so later you are back going.

You pull in the "driveway" and suddenly the truck dips in a rut and the right front shock explodes. FUCK, I can fix that at home.

He finally leads you down a long path. You are getting worried cause Bubba seems to be sporting wood right about now. Next thing you know a few other Bubba's come out of the bushes around the AMC. Now you are freaking out.

You go for your gun, but remember you forgot to load it and put it under the seat. Bubba now has you by the collar and is taking you over to your "free ride". You see the other Bubba's are sporting wood also.

They throw you on the hood, strip you naked and you suddenly realize that the free ride is really gonna hurt.

Hours later you come too, your ass is bleeding, your truck and trailer are gone. You look down and Bubba signed the title over to you on the AMC.

Well, at least you got that going for you..

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