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newVideoPlayer("/69_AMC_Rebel_494.flv", 506, 423,""); Back in the late 1960s, American Motors didn't just focus on cheapness in their ads. Oh no, they wanted potential car buyers to realize that you could beat the living crap out of their cars and they'd still stay in- more or less- one piece. We think the actor playing the driving instructor here should have won an award for the "I can't turn while you're looking at me" sequence!
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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 . Last weekend I was in Denver again, and I ended up on the streets of Golden for the Golden Super Cruise. It was early evening and I didn't have my good camera, so I figured I only had time to shoot a few cars before l ran out of light. We've all seen nine million Camaros and Chargers and deuce coupes, so I figured I could skip that stuff. "I'll just shoot AMCs and any Chrysler product with huge fins," I said, and that's just what I did. Jump away for the rest. galleryPost('GoldenAMCsTop', 6, 'AMCs And A Finned Chrysler At The Golden Super Cruise'); They make Coors beer in Golden, and the brewery is a Manhattan Project-scale operation that looms over the town and fills the air with the smell of yeast. Last Saturday, however, hydrocarbons filled the air! I found this '68 or '69 AMX (AMC experts...
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newVideoPlayer("/Trans_Am_AMC_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Sure, there were plenty of Mustangs, Camaros, and Challengers- not to mention a few furrin jobs in the 2-liter class- roaring around the track in the Historic 1966-74 Trans Am Cars event yesterday, but: red-white-and-blue Javelins and AMXs! The sound of 40 V8s WFO on the track overwhelmed my poor camera's sound-recording abilities, but I did get a usable video of this Javelin warming up. Make the jump for many Trans Am photos. galleryPost('MH08TransAm', 6, 'Historic Trans Am Cars In Monterey');
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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. galleryPost('DOTJ64Rambler', 12, '1964 Rambler American 330 Down On The Junkyard');
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newVideoPlayer("67_AMC_Rebel_476.flv", 475, 376,""); Coil-spring seats! A six-banger engine! Molded acoustical headliner! A big gas tank! The hardhatted Kenosha gentleman in this ad wants you to know that the '67 AMC Rebel is the cheapest intermediate-sized hardtop in America. "Either we're charging too little, or the other guys are charging too much!" Now if only we could find an ad for the amazing '69 Rebel Machine...
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