Rambler takes the Ridler
This Ridler-winning, Ferrari-powered Rambler wagon was build by Divers Street Rods. photo courtesy Divers Street Rods So what would it take for a Rambler to win the Ridler? Before this past weekend,...
View ArticleAMO 2008: Circle the wagons!
While you Yanks were eating bratwurst watching fireworks this past weekend, I was up in Kingston, Ontario, for an equally patriotic event, but with a twist: The American Motors Owners Association for...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1964 Rambler American
Should you buy this 1964 Rambler American taxi, be prepared to confuse people left and right. While the “Anywhere, U.S.A.” bit should be enough to tell people that this isn’t really a working cab...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1959 Rambler American
Here’s the hard truth: As much as we here at Hemmings love Ramblers (look at those wide-open gingerbread-less expanses! Those blackwall tires! That archaic flathead six!), they don’t get a lot of...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1961 Rambler American
What manufacturer nowadays would even bother to offer a compact car with a convertible top? None, surely, all of them fearing the wrath of the NHTSA, but in the Sixties it wasn’t that unheard of, and...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1963 Rambler American 440
With bucket seats, a console, two-tone paint, a two-door hardtop body style, and the overhead-valve six-cylinder engine, this 1963 Rambler American 440 for sale on Hemmings.com was about as sporty as...
View ArticleThis Day in History: Rambler American goes on sale
On January 30, 1958, the Rambler American went on sale. Intended to be an all-around economy car – a compact two-door sedan workhorse that got good gas mileage and satisfied a family’s needs during the...
View ArticleFour-Links – Americans in Iran, Elspeth Beard, Anka-Eve Goldmann, Monte Carlo...
* Before Iran’s 1979 revolution, the country was far far more open than today. How much more open? As Perry Shoar recently wrote for Curbside Classic, American Motors offered the Rambler American in...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Rambler American 440 convertible
It won’t win any concours awards, but then again, few people own an American Motors product to go clean up at the concours events. Instead, this 1965 Rambler American 440 convertible for sale on...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1961 Rambler American Deluxe
When you’re America’s Number 4 carmaker, you’d better be good at doing a lot with a little. Given the job of updating the bulbous Rambler American, AMC stylists did some sleight-of-hand, wrapping the...
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