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1973 HS senior year party car. 60 Ambassador, AMC 327, Holley 4bbl, dual exhaust, 3 spd OD, AC, all stock. We called it the Presidential car. It had a brass plaque on the dash saying it was custom made for a woman in California. Never figured out who it was. Paid 65 bucks for it from a classmate. Had to sell it when I went to college. Great car, never got pulled over in it!
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Sooooo many memories from our mid-sixties family car, a '60 Rambler Custom sedan! Six cylinder with the push buttom automatic. I loved the fact that if you had a 'tailgater' a few pushes on the reverse button lit up the large backup lights and got them to back off quickly 
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My Dad and I both worked at a Minnesota county highway department and that rwd Rambler with limited slip and aggressive snow tires would go through an unbelievable amount of deep snow on the way to get the plows out. Never did have to "chain up" to get in for a 3 am start.
It was indeed a great car for drive-in movie dates. One morning after I'd had the car for a movie date Dad and I were going to work when he kept looking into the rearview mirror with a smile and asked if I had a good time last night? When I turned around to see what he was looking at I saw my girlfriend's, now wife's, footprints on the fogged up rear window.
.My Dad and I both worked at a Minnesota county highway department and that rwd Rambler with limited slip and aggressive snow tires would go through an unbelievable amount of deep snow on the way to get the plows out. Never did have to "chain up" to get in for a 3 am start.
It was indeed a great car for drive-in movie dates. One morning after I'd had the car for a movie date Dad and I were going to work when he kept looking into the rearview mirror with a smile and asked if I had a good time last night? When I turned around to see what he was looking at I saw my girlfriend's, now wife's, footprints on the fogged up rear window.
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One more thing came to mind about that Rambler, one of the absolute funniest things I ever saw. The six had a problem with head gaskets for a while. It started acting up again after one repair and I had to take it to the dealer to have it checked. The mechanic was a HUGE guy who was bent over under the hood pulling plugs to identify the problem cylinder while I stood nearby waiting. He grabbed one of the wires wrong and took like six high voltage hits. With each shock he loudly hit the back of his head on the underside of the hood. I had to bite my tongue, turn and walk away. I didn't think he'd take a teenager laughing his a** off at his expense too well.
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Ha Ha! That was us man, and if you did get caught they'd just take you home and tell you to pick up ur car when your sober tomorrow. Oh it was dumb alright but we didn't have any sense back then. We rode around in a Buddy's Rambler 4 door that had a 232 6 banger in it, and three on the tree to.
That's a beauty! I typed for 15 mins about my buddies Rambler w/a 232 6 banger in it but it dissapeared. That's a real nice little wagon there, I'd love to have it.
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I guess it found its way after all. Don't know how cause I couldn't scroll down to hit " post reply". I'm sure its my fone
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Good times back then. Nobody got in trouble. Everybody reached into their pockets and dug out spare change and pitched in to fill the gas tank, and away we went. Gas was cheap back then, so there was enough change left over to head to the local beer store and find someone who looked old enough to go in and get the supplies for the road trip to no-where and just had fun.
Sometimes the police must have felt sorry for us, driving around in the nerdy looking car, so they just left us alone, most of the time. You're right about going back the next day to pick the car back up.
My parents had a rambler ambassador wagon i think. I had an olds vista cruiser(among several wagons) that took my family on a camper totin trip fro western NYS out to Yellowstone and back visiting a number of parks and places along the way. I have a 69 AMX in the barn that has seen much better days!
we used to take the condenser from a points set, stick it on a plug wire, start the motor for a few seconds then pass the charged condenser wire first, to the newest mechanics helper, yes laugh our sixes off watching him jump
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In the 60s, my dad owned a Shell gas station and ran an auto repair business out of it.
His service truck was a Rambler station wagon just like that one. He painted it Shell Oil yellow and white, engineered an air compressor out of a GM AC compressor and ran service calls with it until 1971 when He bought an actual pickup truck.
That old Rambler just kept going and going. I think it was the original Energizer Bunny.
His service truck was a Rambler station wagon just like that one. He painted it Shell Oil yellow and white, engineered an air compressor out of a GM AC compressor and ran service calls with it until 1971 when He bought an actual pickup truck.
That old Rambler just kept going and going. I think it was the original Energizer Bunny.
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I think I remember 45 cents a gallon. Heck yea gas booze 8 tracks and Ted Nugent lol! " Stranglehold"!!! Lol
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Oh My God, brings back memories.
Listening to Deep Purple cruizin down the road in the Highway Star wagon, Space Truckin it across the state listening to Smoke on the Water when it was raining out and the car was smokin out the oil breather on the wet roads, and we were all wearing our Cheap Sunglasses so nobody would recognize us. Pop the next 8 track in, Double live Gonzo full blast on the stereo so you couldn't hear the noises the car was making.
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Oh My God!!! I remember that trick, played that many times on people.
oh man guess i am old, gas when i started working gas was 26.9 cents a gallon, mechanics helpers got paid $75.00 a week .for a 10 spot we filled the gas tank , drove to the shore for the day beach badges not needed yet and back home , lunch at McDonalds included, when i joined the navy we got paid $80.00 a month
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I never heard of that one. One of the guys dad worked for the RR and had a box of these little explosive things with lead wings that attached them to a piece of RR track and when it was backing up it would run over those things and they would go off telling the Locomotive or whatever they are called that he'd backed up far enuf. Sounded like a .357 going off but I put one in the inside of a guys car door and slowly almost close it. Well he comes back and gets in his car and slammed the door shut and KAPOW!!!, blew the window out put some cuts on him and it really made a mess. A very STUPID thing to do on my part. We were pretty crazy and did stuff I couldn't even imagine now for anything.
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The Railroad 'Flare' trick. Those things were pretty powerful with a load 'Bang'.
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The Rambler wagon service vehicle tripped another memory, this one much more recent. A local auto repair outfit had this really nice '59 Rambler wagon sitting outside their business. Couldn't pass up taking these pictures.
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Evidently they've named it Mable.
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No backup lights?? If it isn't unrestored they did a really nice job, even on the interior.
Evidently they've named it Mable.
No backup lights?? If it isn't unrestored they did a really nice job, even on the interior.
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Driving back to Offutt AFB (1966)I ran across a gas war in NW Iowa, fuel at 24.9 .... that's four gallons for a dollar!!!
I really didn't need gas but could not pass it up. I topped off the 25 gallon tank in my '61 Pontiac before I left town.
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Oh I remember filling my mini bike up for ,37$ a gal. By the time I got out of high school it was $1 per gal for the old Rambler.
Yep I worked at Mcdeath flipping burgers $5.50 an hr, I worked for my uncle on the farm for $3.75 an hr.
The good old days................. LOL.......... 😁
Yep I worked at Mcdeath flipping burgers $5.50 an hr, I worked for my uncle on the farm for $3.75 an hr.
The good old days................. LOL.......... 😁
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