Trusty carriers share bonds with customers (2/10/2021)
The older mail carriers of Winona are a distinguishable bunch. Under their belts are decades of service giving people mail. They are pointedly pleasant in a way only a mail carrier a Minnesota mail carrier can be. In a time of great division, they provide at least one connection between neighbors who might not share politics but share the same mail route.
Greg Miranda has worked 26 years as a mail carrier for the Winona Post Office. His connection to the community is evident when he takes gleeful pride in pointing at various houses on his route with a half-gloved hand and rattling off facts from the people he knows at those houses. He began his mail career after getting laid off by IBM, when his brother-in-law talked him into taking the postal worker’s exam. Miranda scored high, and joined the ranks of the United States Postal Service. “It worked out okay for me,” he said.
Low-Mileage 1974 AMC Javelin AMX Had a Single Owner For the Past Three Decades 6 Feb 2021, 8:35 UTC ·
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People shouldn’t look back in anger towards some of the
ugly duckling pony car designs of the 1970s just because of easy examples such as the second-generation Mustang or this final-year 1974 AMC Javelin AMX. They had their merits – the Mustang II had its sales success, while the Javelin had its racing connection to the Trans-Am series, among others. 39 photos
Anyone who is on the lookout for a classic pony car from the 1970s and wants to stand out in a crowd should definitely check out this ‘74 AMC Javelin AMX with very few miles on the odometer (granted, there’s a TMU note attached to the 4,000-mile reading) that popped up for sale on
Clean-Black 1978 Jeep J10 Brings Its Golden Eagle Companion Along for the Ride 3 Feb 2021, 12:05 UTC ·
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Willys Motors, Kaiser-Jeep, American Motors Corporation, and then Chrysler all chipped in to make sure people would flock to buy the midsize Jeep Gladiator JT pickup truck based on the fourth-generation Wrangler JL. Meanwhile, classic truck devotees have the original Gladiator and an entire roster of J-Series pickups to marvel at.
For example, the atemporal Jeep J10 still turns heads whenever encountered, thanks to a combination of rugged looks, four-wheel drive, and huge levels of nostalgia. This 1978 American Motors Corporation Jeep J10 that’s soon heading to auction at no reserve has all that and then some. Clearly, it’s one truck worth lusting after.
1979 AMC Spirit Is Junkyard Treasure
This Spirit has everything from an 8-track player to a real digital clock. Murilee Martin
The American Motors Corporation was on the ropes, financially speaking, in the late 1970s. Renault showed up with much-needed cash in 1979, but the modern AMC-Renault machinery produced by the merger was still a few years in the future. What AMC
did have that year was an all-new compact to replace the Gremlin: the Spirit. Here s one of those first-year Spirits, found in a Denver boneyard with just about every available option. Murilee Martin
See that big air-conditioning compressor? A/C was a $731 option on this car, which comes to around $2,790 in inflation-adjusted 2021 bones, or clams. This engine is the 258-cubic-inch (4.2-liter) AMC straight-six, second from the top of the 79 Spirit engine-choice pyramid and rated at 110 horsepower. That was a $130 option ($495 today); the 304-cubic-inch (5.0-liter) V8 made 125 hp and cost $250 ($953 today).
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