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I rode in one that was almost new in 1969 and it was not that great. Cheap made and gave trouble more than alot of the fords and GMs but priced cheap. If you could find one that was a 2 door v8 with options like bucket seats or 4 speed etc it would be collectable and worth restoration. The others not so much.There was one muscle car they made I dont recall the name but it had a 390 cubic inch engine .The ramblers of the 60s were well made but just didnt sell that many.
Old girl friend had a 64 American Rambler four door. It had personality. Had two spots on the dashboard marked with permanent marker. Turn on the original all transistor radio, go to spot #1, hit that spot, and the radio turned on. The other spot was for the headlights. To start the car, she had to turn the key half way, pull the key as if trying to remove it, turn the rest of the way, and kick the gas peddle until it started. She had a screw driver to open the trunk. She couldn't unlock the front doors with the keys so she left them locked and climbed in through the back doors and hopped over the front seat. This was back in 1989.
I rode in one that was almost new in 1969 and it was not that great. Cheap made and gave trouble more than alot of the fords and GMs but priced cheap. If you could find one that was a 2 door v8 with options like bucket seats or 4 speed etc it would be collectable and worth restoration. The others not so much.There was one muscle car they made I dont recall the name but it had a 390 cubic inch engine .The ramblers of the 60s were well made but just didnt sell that many.
the muscle car versio you are thinking of was the SC/rambler
In 76 i bought a 64 Rambler American for $50. I drove it 40 miles both ways to work every day for 2 years until it just became too rough for the road any more. I then took out the seats put in one bucket seat and used it for my bush car to bring home loads of firewood from my bush. I did this for a couple of years until I bought my first truck. I parked the old Rambler beside the barn and it sat there for a year until this guy came along that asked me to sell it to him for $50. I said $200 and he went away. The next day he showed up again driving a rambler just like mine the was mint except it needed a front bumper and a motor. His was smoking like a chimney. Anyway he bought it and towed it away. It's the only time in my life I had a car for years, bear the daylight out of it and then sold it for 4 times more that I paid for it.
Oddly enough, the Rambler (American) was produced in a far greater number in Argentina, under the label of Industrias Kaiser Argentina (IKA) in the mid 1960s. Kaiser automobile division in the US had a large production operation near Cordoba, Argentina at that time. They took a mid 1960s Rambler American and built essentially the same simple sedan by the hundreds of thousands in Argentina for a decade or so. It was one of the most common cars you would see on the streets of Argentina in the 1970s. Lots of Ford Falcons too, but the IKA Rambler outnumbered most others.
I took my drivers test in 1963 in a 1959 Rambler American that my uncle owned. I was 16 yrs old. He bought it new and had it for years.
I remember going to Wva with him and when we got off I-77 at Parkersburgh to go the next 100 miles or so on crooked roads he wanted me to drive. He didn't like driving the hilly, crooked roads. I drove that car quite bit over the years he had it.
It was a very basic, plain jane car but always ran good and was dependable with no major problems.
Car Craft is building a Rambler like the S/C Rambler except it's an all blue car. Looks nice.
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