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Down On The Street 450
Celebrating 450 Old Vehicles Down On The Alameda Street: The Non-Big 3 American Machines
We're actually up to 482 Alameda street-parked classics in this series, but I'm still working on chronicling the 450-machine milestone. The Server Hamsters resist in all their maddened rodential fury, but we press on!
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down on the junkyard
Even Ramblers Are Consumed By The Crusher's Insatiable Hunger!
Maybe you won't shed any tears over the rendering of this '74 Corolla wagon into a tiny cube of China-bound scrap steel, but how about this nearly complete '63 Rambler Classic? More »
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Comment by DoctorNine's D9 Cat: There is no justice. This vehicle must have transported pleated skirts, and starched white shirts, to school and church, and done... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Model Hell
Model Hell Continues To Beckon: Vintage AMC SC/Rambler Kit In 1:25 Scale!
I managed to avoid adding the Revell Gaga and the 1:16 scale first-gen Civic to my Model Hell Garage, but this one is proving even tougher to resist. More »
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Comment by Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable: Pretty neat, but it'd need to be a car with a higher AMC goofycool factor to tempt me, I'd say..... 9 Responses | Other threads
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down on the street
1960 Rambler American Custom
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Here's a proto-AMC to remind us of the transience of car companies. More »
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Comment by .357: Ramblers are some of the best AMCs. And, I especially love the 58-60 MY wagons. Flathead 6 engines are... 16 Responses | Other threads
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retro
Tired Of LS6 Chevelles And Hemi 'Cudas? Check Out UDMan's Obscure Muscle Car Parking Lot!
You go to a car show featuring classic Detroit muscle, and you know who the stars will be: the same super-restored Boss 429 Mustangs, Hemi Super Bees, and GTO Judges you see every time. More »
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Comment by jduffy13: You Mr. Martin are an intelligent individual. I'm stunned, the term "muscle car" is used correctly. Too often here and all over... 31 Responses | Other threads
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down on the street bonus edition
Dodge Valiant, Renault Torino, Jeep Wagoneer, And Much More Classic Iron Still Alive In Argentina
This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Here's why Argentina is one of our favorite DOTSBE locales! More »
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Comment by Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable: The '66 Dart is one of my favorites, and '61 was a good year for Chevy.. but help an under-informed... 17 Responses | Other threads
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project car hell
PCH, 57 Varieties Of Hell Edition: Two 1957 Cadillacs or 1957 Nash/Hudson Combo?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Last time around, the '69 AMC SC/Rambler grabbed a photo-finish 51-49 win over the '70 Chrysler 300 Hurst in the Choose Your Eternity poll. We're going to stick with good ol' American machinery today, but instead of picking one of two vintage musclecars, your choices will be 2-for-1 1957 package deals. These cars have been waiting for you for 51 years... waiting for a chance toruin your lifemake you happier than you've ever been!
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Comment by Graverobber: It's the Caddys. Why? Well, because you are a car nut in love with old American iron. As is your... 15 Responses | Other threads
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woodward dream cruise
Nash Rambler Cross Country Custom
As is traditional for the Woodward Dream Cruise, the best cruising is already happening, days early. Now is when all the good stuff comes out of barns and garages for a run through the cool evening air, avoiding the choking crowds and coolant-boiling traffic of the Saturday cruise. Last night we stumbled onto this rare gem of a vintage station wagon at 13 Mile road and Woodward Ave — a Nash Rambler Cross Country Custom. What makes these ulta-rare is they were basically the last gasp for Hudson, which existed in name only after the marque merged with Nash in '54 to form AMC. More »
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By Ben WojdylaComment by ☠Grяrяrяrяrя sings the doom song now!: Keep those wagons coming! I'd much rather have the 427-powered Kingswood Estate, but this is still pretty cool. more » | Other threads
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monterey auctions
The Ten Crappiest Cars Of The 2008 Monterey Auctions
The Pebble Beach Concours is always a spectacle of the well-heeled celebrating the well-known in the fancy-pants car show circuit. To go along with the car show wine is the cheese, also known as the Monterey Auctions, put on every year by the house of RM Auctions. There are always hit lists of the most desirable and historical cars crossing the blocks for huge sums of money; to wit, Edmunds Inside Line just did their "10 Best Cars at the 2008 Monterey Auctions" piece today. But we tire of such endeavors. That's why we dug around and found out what's at the bottom of the list. Below the fold: The ten crappiest cars at the 2008 Monterey Auctions. More » -
project car hell
PCH, Red, White, And Blue Flames Edition: Austin America Or Rambler American?
For the first time, a single car part beat an entire car in a Project Car Hell matchup, according to the results of our most recent Choose Your Eternity poll. Today we're going to celebrate the Fourth of July, but not by getting all liquored up and firing large-caliber handguns into the sky. No, we're going to celebrate our freedoms by sentencing ourselves to years of thankless labor in the garage, on vehicles so patriotic that they're literally named after America. More »
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Comment by LV51FER: Nice to believe that us Brits had any imagination back then. Over here, these cars were inventively called the Austin... more » | Other threads
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junkyard find
This American's Rambling Days Are Over
Remember that Rambler engine block that was so much fun to identify last week? That wasn't the only shot I got of the Crusher-bound '64 Rambler American; in fact, that wrecking yard currently has two Ramblers (in the Ford section). This one still has plenty of good pieces (well, it had them last week, when I took these photos), so let's hope that more than just the cylinder head gets rescued for use in surviving cars. More »
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Comment by larsenf: @BlackIce_GTS: @Pope Dearthair the Awesometh: just today i drove my 63 wagon from portland to los angeles. i took the... 1 Responses | Other threads
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found on ebay
Shopping For An Argentine Rambler? Renault Torino Available In California!
We love weird South American versions of North American cars, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a car with a more complicated family tree than the Renault Torino. Conceived as the result of AMC-Renault cooperation, based on the '65 Rambler American Rogue, with body redesign by Pininfarina and power by Kaiser, the Torino was built in Argentina until 1982. We really, really want one to use for Official Jalopnik Business... and now there's this '72 for sale on eBay! Make the jump for a vastly expanded gallery. [eBay Motors] More »
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Comment by MadHungarian: PINNNNGGGGG!!! (that was the sound of my Lust-O-Meter going off the scale) The only thing better than a Torino would be a... more » | Other threads
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autorama
Ferrambo Wins 2008 Ridler Award At Detroit Autorama
After the 2008 Geneva Motor Show, we needed a little recoup time, but yesterday we were back on the beat at the 2008 Detroit Autorama. We're just going to lay the smack down right away, the winner of the 2008 Detroit Autorama Ridler Award was a car we saw last year in the building stages - a Ferrari-engined Nash Rambler dubbed "Ferrambo". The bright red lightning rod of holy-shit-that's-crazy stood out pretty strong amidst this years Great 8 as the hands down, batshit craziest entry and we love the Autorama judges for giving it the nod. More »
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By Ben WojdylaComment by ihateauditions: @Greg A.: You aren't the only one who liked it better with bare metal and five spokes. I love the bare... more » | Other threads
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Comment by Old_Car_Guy: Amazing what was once called an "intermediate" sized car. My brother-in-law had one - bought it new - and it... more » | Other threads
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news
What Were The Presidential Hopefuls' First Cars?
So all these folks who want to be President of the US of A, they get all long-winded about their big plans and all that, but what about the question we really care about? The AP asked a number of the hopefuls the question "What was your very first car?" Thus, we learn that Hillary Clinton started her driving life with a '63 Cutlass, MIke Huckabee had a Montego, Barack Obama had a Granada, and (winner of the Jalopnik Best Presidential Wannabe's First Car Award) Mitt Romney had a '63 Rambler Classic. [Associated Press]
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Comment by Gaseous Clay: @Beelzebubba: @LTDScott: Celeb wagon = fun, but ONLY in reverse, on snow, when the PoPo is not around. Otherwise... more » | Other threads
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down on the street
1965 Rambler American 220
How long has it been since we last saw an Alameda Rambler? Since July, that's how long... and that's just too long to be deprived of pre-AMC-nameplate Kenosha machinery! So here's a pretty clean '65 American to start our day. This car parks next to the '61, so we have to assume they're owned by the same person. More »
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Comment by Ltmousseman: I had a '65 Rambler American Station Wagon in High School & my best friend had a '66, We would... more » | Other threads
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choose your eternity
Project Car Hell, Fastback Edition: Charger or Marlin?
You young whippersnappers with your turbo this and Japanese that... why, back when men were men, four-wheel drum brakes were Safe Enough, and it looked like we were winning the Vietnam War (i.e., pre-Tet Offensive), AMC and Chrysler came out with midsize sedans equipped with big engines, fastback rooflines, and lots of glass. And when you wanted forced induction back then, you didn't put no newfangledy turbowhatzits on the car- you cut a big goddamn hole in the hood and stuck a 6-71 on that thang! More »
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Comment by FЯeeMan: I went fishin' cause the guy couldn't even be bothered to take the bike or tarp out of the picture.... more » | Other threads
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classic ad watch
Live a Little, Drive a Rambler!
Apparently, Walt Disney had a deal with American Motors back in '55, allowing them to use a crypto-Mickey Mouse character in their ads. While this Nash ad isn't quite as twisted as the Disembodied Mickey Head Mitsubishi ad, it's still a bit strange to see a family of animated mice shilling for the Pacer's ancestor.
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Comment by athodyd: @Skydiver: I don't know about that but for some reason the pseudo-UPA Gerald-McBoing-Boing character design makes her look ten times... more » | Other threads
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classic ad watch
The Water, She's A-Rising! Get The AMC Wagon!
Those of us old enough to recall a childhood of road trips spent battling with un-seatbelted siblings in the cargo area of a Detroit station wagon ("We can pull over right here if you kids can't stop fighting back there!") might have some vivid mental pictures of the gory conflicts resulting from packing tigers, geese, and camels into the back of a '67 Ambassador wagon. But hey, AMC said their wagons make good Arks, so who are we to argue? The Rambler name was still being dropped in 1968 for vehicles labeled as AMCs, interestingly enough.
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Comment by Mike Spinelli: Funny how the concept of rambling had such a positive connotation in the days before mass cocaine and Starbucks. Now... more » | Other threads
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choose your eternity
Project Car Hell: Buicked Packard or Rough Rambler?
The $495 Mercedes 230S won yesterday's Project Car Hell poll, beating the VW Type 3 by a decisive margin. It has come to our attention that some of you are confused about exactly what it is we're voting on in the Project Car Hell series- is it the car you'd most want as a project, or the one you most fear? Well, the answer is: yes! Vote for the project you'd have to be a total idiot to take on, but that would also be the most fun when finished. If you could ever finish it, that is... More »
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Comment by thechoop: Pull the BB 455 and trash the rest of the Puke-ard. Hoping of course the engine is not blown. more » | Other threads
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down on the street
1961 Rambler American
I'm going to go with a fine patriotic machine this Fourth of July, a car literally named American. This little Kenosha coupe lives in Alameda's West End. More »
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Comment by TrixieMaro: Nothing to do with Ramblers at all, but I think the '59 & '60 GM cars were the most innovatively... more » | Other threads
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something we learned today
John North Willys, Automotive Pioneer
We once had a French roommate into hot rods and sportbikes. Given that he'd become an American citizen whose nation of birth had been liberated by men driving vehicles manufactured by a company founded and shepherded by one John North Willys, we always thought his prediliction toward referring to the company as "Willis" was oddly, well, French. But it turns out that he was actually correct all along, which is one of the myriad things we learned today from an interesting piece about the man whose most lasting legacies are the Gasser and the Jeep. More » -
retro
Half-Price Day Junkyard Day
Uttering the phrase half price anywhere near the word junkyard sends a couple of the Jalops driving with toolbox toward the self-service junkyard like so many moths to a streetlight on a summer night. One of the larger self-service yards in California had a statewide half price sale a while back and we were there in NoCal and SoCal. Bumbeck headed down out of the hills into hot and dusty Sun Valley while Martin ventured out onto the mean streets of Hayward from Alameda. Out of the thousands of cars being picked apart we've chosen ten that qualify to enter into the pantheon of Jalopnik half-price day junkyard specials. Our selections in blazing full color after the jump. More » -
retro
Did You Hear About the Prancing Rambler?
Now and then, an enterprising hot-rod head suddenly thinks, "What if I put a freakin' Ferrari motor in this thing?" Many of Los Jalopniks have had this thought, but this visionary with a buttload of taste and a surprisingly-correct sense of perfect went the extra mile and acted on it, having the mill from a wrecked 360 Modena dropped into the back of a Rambler wagon. We think it looks perfect as it stands; as if an enterprising teenager with fab skills hit the junkyard, found a T-boned amalgam of Enzo's finest and applied it to his own ride. Word to the builder and owner: keep that vibe. [Thanks to Haller for the tip.] More » -
retro
More Kenosha Iron: The 1965-66 AMC Marlin
Sometimes mistaken for an early Dodge Charger, the fastback AMC Rambler Marlin hit the street in 1965, a year before the Dodge. Based on the Rambler Classic, most Marlins had 270-horse 327 V8s and all had seats that folded down to form a bed (a feature that must have come in handy on a hot drive-in date to a Russ Meyer triple-feature). Sadly, the Marlin faced stiff competition from Detroit iron with bigger engines and fatter marketing budgets and failed to sell well; in 1967, the Marlin nameplate was shifted to a fastback version of the Ambassador, in an unsuccessful attempt to compete with fastback Galaxies and Impalas. The real disappointment: Renault didn't make a version of the Marlin in South America. More »
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Comment by SpudMills: The Marlin always struck me as the coolest ugly car ever made. more » | Other threads
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retro
Rambler Rogue? No, Renault Torino!
One of the cars in the above illustration is a '79 Renault Torino, while the other is a '65 Rambler American. Notice any similarities? The story of the Renault Torino isn't just the usual case of a US automaker selling the tooling for an obsolete model to a South American manufacturer, nor was it a simple re-badging of a US model for license-building abroad. No, the Torino is the result of an early chapter in the twisty tale of the Renault-AMC story, which resulted in a unique-to-Argentina vehicle, based on the Rambler American Rogue but with body redesigned by Pininfarina and a Kaiser-designed engine under the hood. The Torino became a legend in Argentina, selling like crazy and having a fair bit of racing success, including a major N rburgring triumph in 1969. Torino production halted in 1982, a dark year for car freaks in Argentina. More »
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Comment by hitech: Im in Phoenix Az and I have a Renault Torino 380w 1969 , "el sueno del pibe" , like to... more » | Other threads
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news
Mitt Romney Likes Cars, Reads Automotive News
Mitt Romney, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, just declared he's running for president. What's this got to do with cars? Well, Mitt declared his intentions right here in Metro Detroit — and to be precise, he did it in Dearborn at The Henry Ford museum. His declaration of candidacy speech is just rife with auto-love for the Rambler and a certain Keith Crain-produced auto daily:"I chose this site for a number of reasons. It's filled with cars and memories. Dad and I loved cars. Most kids read the sports box scores. Dad and I read Automotive News. We came here together, him teaching me about cars that were built before my time...The Rambler automobile he championed was the first American car designed and marketed for economy and mileage. He dubbed it a compact car, a car that would slay the gas-guzzling dinosaurs. It transformed the industry."
Wait, the Rambler? Oh right, your dad was George Romney, who ran AMC until he became Governor of Michigan. But Mitt obviously didn't learn from Poppa George, or else he'd know to say he reads the "Auto Insider" team at the Detroit News and not Automotive News. Nolan Finley's totally not gonna endorse his ass now. More »
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