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I had sent this auction to my oldest brother awhile back...he said last night this was identical to the one we had except ours had red interior...my dad had the rambler dealer install a 4bb and 355 posi out of a wrecked wagon...when we moved back from pa where i was born...I was 6 months old and rode in a dresser drawer in the back seat with my mom..we had a caravan of vehicles moving back with help from my older cousins as my brothers where not old enough to drive..the rambler kept dying ...finally a state cop saw us along the road at one point and escorted us ..he told my mom that when she thought the car would go just pull out and go and he always jumped out in front with his lights on...it would go a few miles and die then set and go again...Dad found out in the next big city it had a clogged fuel filter in the carb that he did not know about...this would have been early 1969...
Once back in illinois a few years later the car got rear ended...dad had cut the car in half and junked the back end..kept the front of the car in the backyard and engine etc in the garage for years...I can remember playing in it like I was driving and one day was attacked in it by a swarm of bumble bee's and was stung all over my whole body bad....my mom said she had never heard so much screaming...
My brother said Dad had outran many hi-po cars of the day especially a new 69 firebird they tied into one day several times and the pontiac never did get out front..lol
this was just one of many Ramblers and AMC's we had...my mom can't hardly keep them straight(at 73)...
My buddy asked her awhile back why she still does not have one and she kinda made a funny look...lol
My Dad had a buddy we called H.B....short for hillbilly ...he was a legendary character and happened to be an AMC mechanic at the local dealer..I remember going to his bay in the shop many many times(and his house garage) that was wallpapered with old playboy centerfolds..lol) as a kid in the later 70's..dad eventually traded 2 63 classics and some $$ for a new 73 Hornet hatchback red/black interior which went to my brother and then me after our Dad died in the late 70's...

I thought I would share this with all you other fellow Ramblers.

Thanks for the awesome story Jim...I did not come from an AMC heritage...although I do have around here someplace a pic of my dad witha deer on the tailgate of a red Rambler wagon he had...my story of going fast came from my dad and his 70 Plymouth Sport Fury GT...it was a 440 car and dad used to love to drop the hammer on it...mom used to get furious as we sped down the road at 100 MPH...my mom has been dead for around 15 years and my dad for 13...I miss them most during the holidays