Figured it's time to intoduce myself.

[80amc]

  Even though I just became a member of the forums I've been on the websight many times over the years and been around Eagles since they were new.  Having three young boys will tend to take up what small amount of time one has left to spend on the internet!  Anyways I remember when I was very young and my Grandfather brought home a new 1980 amc eagle sedan (two tone blue) to the farm.  I may not have known it then, but that started an obsession I now have for these great cars.  I grew up with that car; sitting between my parents in the front bucket seats going to church on Sundays (I was the smallest and fit there the best) I had then purchased the car from my grandmother and mechanically restored it.  Everbody said I would drive it until it broke in half, and then one day it did and I almost rolled it in the ditch.  It was a Minnesota car and the salt finally took its toll on the front subframe, so I welded it up and kept driving it until a suitable replacement could be bought.  I found another 1980 eagle sedan (two tone brown/Beige) and mechanically restored that car. This time I bought a North Dakota car with no rust! I still have the sedan and have also added a 1982 sx/4 Sport to my collection.  When money and time go hand in hand I have some big plans for the sx/4 including some radical suspension and engine modifications.  It's a neat car, being black on black and having the borg warner manual 5 speed.  I definitely have a lot of questions to ask of all you and hope that I can share some of my experience with these cars.  I look forward to sharing information in the years to come. 

[maddog]

welcome to the nest and we would love to see some pics of your eagles. one question do you still have the first one.

[Jurjen]

Welcome to the Nest, we like pictures!

[80amc]

  Yes, I'll make it a priority to try and get some pictures down loaded, first I have to get my scanner going again. We put in a newer computer and now nothing wants to work with it, go figure!  Anyways to answer the first question, no I do not have my first eagle anymore.  I decided to part it out when I found the other 80 sedan, so some of it survives in my beige sedan (tranny and driveshafts), some stored in boxes in my garage and the body which was heavily corroded went to a salvage yard in Fargo ND where many other eagles resided that I pillaged for parts when I lived up there for 7 years.  I've always meant to go and visit her again, but who knows if it would even be there anymore; that was already ten years ago.  Besides I'm still a little bitter about slicing my finger wide open when trying to take the last headlamp out of the car just before the car went to the salvage yard.  I think the car knew and wasn't happy with my decision to let her go.  I really do miss that car!!  I've never seen another 1980 sedan in that two tone blue paint job, with blue interior (very pretty car).  I love the sedan I have now, but brown/beige is not a show stopping paint scheme!  I think that car held the record for the number of 4x4 pickups it pulled out of the ditches of ND during the winter of 1996. My buddy still doesn't want anybody to know about that eagle pulling out his 1985 K5 blazer (which had a two inch suspension lift, two inch body lift, 33's for tires and over 400hp) from a snow filled ditch. Eagles are truly amazing vehicles - I know that the state patrol officer (that told me I should turn back from a snow drift filled road with two stuck trucks during a North Dakota blizzard) was awestruck when I pulled around them all and kept on going like there was nothing to it.  Although I do realize that everything has a limitation; even eagles can't forge through two feet of moving water during a flood and not get almost swept off the road into a lagoon ( I wouldn't re comend that to anyone) during the original ND flood of '97.  I hate to say there is other flood stories with the blue eagle if you're all interested in hearing them.

[IowaEagle]

Welcome to the Nest!  We love Eagle stories too.

[amc78concord]

Yes, Eagle stories are great!

Welcome to the nest!

[doneagle]

            HI     Welcome to the nest  yes pictures  and  stories.............Don