Or maybe you do have a factory replacement block that’s a 401. But if the original 390 is gone and replaced by a service block, well you may have a block that has no indication that it’s an even better 401. A 1970 390 is always going to be a 1970 390 with the last three digits showing as 529. You can’t trace a block back to its original body. Dating of parts is far less critical for AMC than other manufacturers. So you can get clones that are far more correct than the original cars. The casting numbers and dates are not always correct due to swaps. In the end, it all comes down to the VIN. And in the AMC world, we are all hyper critical of anything that is not correct. But yes, there’s still the occasional crook out there.īut there’s lots of help around if people think to ask. These cars don’t get restored or rebodied without anyone at all knowing about them because we all depend on each other for help. People who buy my parts are not putting together fraud cars. I know most of who is doing what because I make the body parts. With respect to AMCs, there are a lot of restorations going on right now and at least a couple of rebodys. You don’t see those cars being labelled as fakes. We’ve all seen videos of cars being restored where there was nothing left but the VIN. These days, rebody restoration of these cars generally sees them as being better than AMC itself built them. Nothing fake about it at all if the work was done to AMC standards. None of these cars were ever rebuilt by the factory but they were accepted as rebuilds complete with the remainder of the original warranty assigned to that VIN. That then was cheaper than replacing the entire car or trying to fix the original body.Īnyone else doing the same thing, going back to the shell and starting over, is doing exactly the same thing. AMC would replace the entire body of a car if the body of the car had been destroyed beyond repair within the first two years of it having been sold. The word fake means the true identity has been hidden as part of an attempt to defraud.Īmerican Motors, in its 1970 Technical Service Manual on page 84, covered off the subject of rebodying an existing car regardless of what it was. You could never sneak up on a potential adversary with one of these bold-looking cars.Ī car identified as a clone is not a fake. Unlike your run-of-the-mill Americans, these cars were not intended to be sleepers. The interior, which was standard Rambler fare, looks to be in good condition with the factory Sun tachometer mounted on the steering column. It appears to be a running automobile but is short on the glory it had 50 years ago. The seller’s SC is said to only have 68,000 miles. ![]() The only option you could add was an AM radio. It was aided by a 4-speed Hurst-actuated stick shift, a 3:54 Twin-Grip rear differential, and dual exhaust with factory glass-packs. You got a 390 cubic inch V8 that was borrowed from the AMX and had an output of 315 horsepower, which could propel the little car to sub-15 second quarter-mile runs. ![]() Total production was just 1,512 units, which was even fewer cars than the Machine.īesides the red/white/blue paint and body stripes, the SC/Rambler was a lot of auto for under $3,000 in 1969 money. So, they had a ready platform for a one-year special edition, the SC/Rambler, which was intended to help make a name for American Motors in the NHRA’s F/Stock drag racing class. The 1969 American was both the last AMC product built with the Rambler name and also the last model year for that automobile, replaced in 1970 by the all-new Hornet. This SC/Rambler is said to be a runner and a bit rough around the edges, but when was the last time you saw one? Located in Westminster, Colorado, this mini-muscle car is available here on Barn Finds Classifieds for an undisclosed amount. ![]() Sandwiched in between was the 1969 SC/Rambler, a one-year-wonder that was based on the “American” compact, with a big-block V8 under the hood. The last was the 1970 Rebel Machine, a limited production mid-size that was painted to look like a rolling U.S flag. The first was the 1968-70 AMX, which was a 2-seat GT-style heart thumper. Between 1968-70, American Motors would offer three short-lived muscle cars.
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