![]() 08/19/2015 at 13:30 • Filed to: colorado, gongkai, misfires, amc, scandrones | ![]() | ![]() |
I hit the winch remote and pulled the Spirit through the rocky terrain, standing well aside in case the cable snapped or any one of a million unforeseen unfortunate occurrences were to happen. This far into the wilderness, any mistakes I made had to be the kind I could walk away from.
It was the third or fourth month; at first without cellphone towers, the clock on my $16 skull-shaped gongkai LTE phone began to drift, and finally, without a cigarette lighter adapter, the phone itself packed it in. It was difficult to tell exactly what time it is, is what I’m trying to tell you. I was near the former Rock Creek ski lodge, trying to haul my Spirit up the lip of a rocky dustbowl before the next pass of the scandrones could tag it. I was pretty convinced they could sample the air and zero in like a laser on the AMC’s specific fingerprint of noxious greenhouse gases in the exhaust as well, but I figured, perhaps foolishly, that they’d need a general area to search, lest it distract from their other targets. Either way, no time to lose.
I threw a large, flat rock under the Spirit’s inside rear wheel, hoping that the extra force would shove the rear axle on that side up just far enough to pole vault the rest of the rear end of the car forward through the magic of leaf springs. I was rewarded for my prudent analysis and rational application of physics with a grotesque grinding sound, as the Spirit neither rolled over nor lifted on the rock. In fact, it started to slide sideways and backwards down the lip, further from my goal than ever. I caught myself saying an involuntary prayer.
Suddenly, I heard the distinctive sound of two tractors having a marital relation in a filing cabinet. I turned to see a Subaru Outback, driven by a geriatric, trivially climbing the landscape behind my AMC, unperturbed even in the slightest at the brutality of it all.
![]() 08/19/2015 at 17:24 |
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I’m so confused.
![]() 08/19/2015 at 17:51 |
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Speaks of Spirit, pictures Eagle SX/4..
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![]() 08/19/2015 at 18:12 |
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You know how hard it is to find a picture of an offroading AMC Spirit?
![]() 08/19/2015 at 18:17 |
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Search for AMC SX/4.