Do you know where I can get a bottle of Gremlin remover? I have a 1993 Toyota pickup. When I use the turn signal, the speedometer needle drops to zero then back to where it was. is it a Gremlin? Is someone sticking needles into a toy Toyota pickup?
Gremlin remover is sold in the same place as Blinker Fluid 
You have a short in the wiring most likely and if every thing else works and returns to normal I would just live with it until it actually quits .
27 year old trucks don’t have gremlins, they are haunted.
Specifically, the Rusted Ground ghost.
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For a minute I thought you were saying you owned an AMC Gremlin. For some reason I love the look of those strange cars like the Gremlin, Hornet, Pacer, Javelin.
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I would mind having a Gremlin, but would love a Marlin.
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Well, as they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder 
Because of those 2 you mentioned, I find the Gremlin to be the better looking vehicle
I’m not saying the Gremlin is a nice-looking car, but I think the Marlin has a hideous back side
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AMC’s original prototype, the Tarpon, was built on the shorter Rambler American chassis and it had much better proportions, IMHO. Why the top brass chose to alter the design from decent to (fill in the blank…) was a mystery, to even AMC’s design staff.
https://www.marlinautoclub.com/create/Tarpon_Concept_Car.htm
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I occasionally see an AMC Pacer around here in use as a daily driver. It’s in immaculate condition but doesn’t appear restored. I’ve never driven or ridden in one but Pacers appear to have had great driver visibility all around, far better than most cars.
I just clicked on your link
As for the Tarpon concept car . . .
How shall we say it . . . ?
I’m not loving it 
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I don’t know if it was the same designer that designed the AMC cars and the pontiac aztek but they both put the UG in ugly.
There is a poor ground connection for the instrument cluster. The ground connection for the instrument cluster is located behind the left kick panel (the trim panel next to your left foot).
Great visibility but I heard the Pacers got hot in the sun
Around here the AMC Pacer was called an upside down fish bowl with wheel’s.
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I actually like the Marlin. A car dealer here who deals in a few old cars had one on his lot about 6 or 7 years ago. Kind of a Royal Blue with Cragar wheels. Very slick looking car.
An old girl friend of mine back in the day had a Gremlin X with a 304 in it. I drove it a few times and while the car was pretty fast I could never get past the rear half looks. Car, not her…
Some of those Gremlins are bringing some fairly big bucks now; especially the X models with the V-8s.
A friend had a Gremlin back in the '60s.
More seriously, I have an '87 Toyota pickup. It had a short somewhere in the wires that served the dashboard. I ended up cutting each one to find the culprit. It turned out to be the last one in the harness but it was for the glovebox light, which the pickup lacks (It’s for the Forerunner that uses the same chassis.), so didn’t have to fix it.
I love it!
The OP owns a Toyota!!?
And everyone is talking about AMC’s?
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His question was a bore, and he asked for it when he used the word gremlin in a car forum.
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I thought they were invented by airplane mechanics in WW2. There was a good cartoon, ‘Gremlin from the Kremlin’, from that era.
It’s ‘Russian Rhapsody’, a Merrie Melodies from '44, worth a watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuV52jpOy8YNo, it is not really attractive, but when compared to the Marlin, I think that it is better-looking.