"Special" Editions

1969 AMC Scrambler, 1,512 made

For Sale - Super Rare 1969Amc Scramblers 5 of them.

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5 cars that took off after the market began to slow
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Cool "Car Art" Illustrations


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Kinda funny.
I have a buddy with 2 SC/Ramblers in his barn, 1 in A, other in B. He got one of them out recently, washed the dust off, and put a 401/AT in it just to get it mobile.
IIRC his Dad bought one of them new. And his Dad is still kickin', so it's legitimately a 1-owner car.

As I scrolled thru "For Sale - Super Rare 1969Amc Scramblers 5 of them.", I found:
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Ever heard of the 1966 AMC Cavalier?

Me neither, probably because (1) it was never made, not even one mule still exists, and (2) scuttle-butt around town is GM trademarked the name out from under their tiny cross-town rival.

Significance? None remain, but study pics and see if something jumps out to the eye. This car is really unique in one key aspect.

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Figure it out?

AMC trying to compete with Big three on economies of scale. And needed a "pony car".

Since a HUGE cost of a car is in sheet metal, and related engineering, tooling, manufacturing costs, etc, AMC was trying to make their comparatively meager resources go further vs. the (at one time) THREE biggest car companies in the world in their backyard).

So, they designed a car where fender and quarters are the same (i.e., driver fender is same stamping as passenger quarter, for example) and decklid stamping is same as hood stamping.

Gives you a odd-kinda look (e.g..long, suicide rear doors, GM A body-looking rear glass/roof wings, etc.,) but saves a ton of money (assuming it could even be built).

Again, they never built one in production, and of course never had a car called "Cavalier" (their pony car became the "Javelin"). Oh, dig the 1965 Cragar SS's this car was sporting.

source: Pressing Forward: the 1966 American Motors Cavalier Prototype
PS. That posing location is the old Reynolds (Aluminum) Regional Sales office in Southfield MI. Still there, but building has seen better days.

source: Detroiturbex.com - Reynolds Sales Office
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Suicide doors.
Wonder if the door skins are reversible.
Click to expand...
doesnt say door skins interchange or not.

i think quarters are shorter than they would otherwise be, making rear doors longer and easier to tool a suicide door hinging setup on the c pillar perhaps? guessing door skins not interchangeable.

then also could have something to do with long deck lid (and '66 GTO-looking rear glass below)

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I noticed some of those things, but what I noticed immediately is that the proportions of the car are not flattering.
I wondered if it was an air-cooled, rear-engine setup or something.

The front end design of grille, headlight bezels, bumper, etc is fabulous. The back 3/4 view is not good.
3rd pic shows it most. The front of the car is clean and gracefully-fluid. The rear end quarterpanel layout is squatted and abrupt, it looks like they ran out of time and threw it together. A convex rear glass (ala 70 Fury) with a thinner C-pillar might've helped. The taillights and trunklid work pretty well, though.
 
I belong to a Jeep forum and a member put this up for sale the other day, I'd never heard of the 2003 Jeep Rubicon "Tomb Raider Edition" It's mostly a few badges and Mopar accessories on a stock Rubicon but its very cool IMO.


From the article:
Based on the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon designed and created specifically for the movie, the production Wrangler Rubicon Tomb Raider model features an unique exterior with 16-inch Alcoa forged aluminum wheels, Tomb Raider badging, and a number of Mopar accessories. The full Mopar treatment includes a light bar, riveted fender flares, tubular grille guard, diamond plate bumper guard, rock rails, fog lamp and taillamp guards, black tubular grille guard, fog lamps with brush guards, riveted fender flares in graphite, aluminum diamond plate bumper guard in black, black rock rails and taillamp guards.

Inside the Wrangler Rubicon Tomb Raider are unique Dark Slate fabric seats with red accent stitching down the center, silver surround instrument panel bezel, red seat belts and a Tomb Raider badge with serial number. As with the custom vehicle in the film, all Wrangler Rubicon Tomb Raider models are offered in Bright Silver.


Intended to be a collector's vehicle, a limited edition of just over 1000 vehicles will be available beginning in July at dealerships across the U.S. The base price of the Wrangler Rubicon Tomb Raider is $28,815, including destination.

From the Jeep Forum:
Silver 2003 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon. This is a very limited edition Tomb Raider Jeep, #373 of only 1000 produced. I have a hard top on it currently, but I have the soft top for it as well.
136014 miles currently. This is my daily driver so it will continue accruing in-town miles.
I would like to get $12,000 for it, but am open to offers.
Located in Indianapolis, IN.

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The more I know about cars, the less I know. :poke:

I aint a truck guy, however, even though I used to be a "shooter" in the OEM truck business in a past life. I really liked hanging out with those folks though, any of the CAR "guys".

We (the OE car people) got a lotta crap about some of the stupid s**t we did over the years.

BUT, they (all the "big 3") could (the technical people) build ANYTHING you could imagine. I used to know this, but something like 25% of all vehicles that made it far enough to have 4-5 mules around, ever made it to production.

But the time I was there (early'90''s), we all had much less money to spread around on vanity "projects" and other stuff we'd never build. '

50's-'60's-'70's? man, what a great time to be a gear head IN a OEM domestic car company. tons of cash and every resource known to humankid at your disposal.:)
Anyway, the "grandpappy" of the SVO LIghtning, SS-454, Ram SRT-10 -- i.e., the muscle truck -- was the Dodge CSS (Custom Sports Special)-HPP (High Performance Package) in 1964.

Yes, 1964. 60 years ago. Not the first "stump puller" .. but kinda the first LUXURY stump puller. Even had a console.

SRT-10 "grandpa" is a little over the top, but not far from wrong to me.

source: https://www.motortrend.com/features/dodge-d100-custom-sports-special-hemi-review/

Aa a $1,200 factory option package for the D-100 CSs-HPP ($11,000 in today's money), you got a 426-Wedge "LoadFlite" 727 auto, HD springs, traction bars, and a gauge package with 6,000 rpm tach.

Actually, in first available late in 1963 MY with a 413, to emulate an aftermarket drag truck piece (,lightly modified) by San Diego DJ Dick Boynton (did 12.71 sec/109 mph at Pomona in 1963, 3900 lbs., 70% of that weight in front). The cats in Highland Park said "Hmm" ....

Enjoy. It was real. Truck below was a WPC museum piece, taken on a road trip, back in 2011. Museum is closed now, but I assume they still have the truck stored with their other stuff.

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source:https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/dick-boynton-b-fx-trucks.573152/

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