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Independent hauling
Yes, Virginia, there were indeed at one time trucks on the highways of North America, and elsewhere, which were produced by Nash. Yes, that Nash, the same company that built those big bathtub-shaped...
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Kraft Rambler
Before she got a ride in a Hotshot, Heather was eyeing the early 1960s Rambler convertibles. I really tried to nudge her into thinking more along the lines of the late 1960s Ramblers, especially the...
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Hershey finds
A few of the others might weigh in on what they hauled back from Hershey. I know Lentinello brought back a blasting cabinet and the mate to the Le Mans taillamp that he found there last year, McGean...
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a photographic safari into the deepest corners of Hershey
so this guy always sets up right across from the Hemmings tent in the Chocolate field with cool old Ford bodies that I lust after, but will never have enough moolah for. In this case, it looked like he...
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Pop quiz – think Steve Martin
Actually, Steve Martin isn’t much of a clue. But Ramblers remind me of his Ramblin’ Man song. Anyway. First person to tell me year, make, model and engine size of this vehicle that I shot yesterday at...
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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,...
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world’s oldest Rambler dealer now a rescue mission
It seems our recent post about former AMC dealerships has knocked loose a few memories among our readers, as witnessed by the excellent comments on that post. Reader Paul Bellefeuille shared the post...
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2009 in review: We utterly fail to anticipate anything
A year ago, I came up with nine predictions for the year ahead, including the state of the industry and the collector-car scene. As some of you may have noticed, the year didn’t really turn out as any...
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SIA Flashback – SIA Interview with George Romney
We’ve mentioned before that one of the great values of Special Interest Autos was that the editors and writers of the magazine were able to get their information straight from the men who made the...
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Snow, mud, mountains: So you wanna live in Vermont?
Permit me, if you will, another indulgence in the vintage photography presented at the University of Vermont’s Landscape Change Program. We only scratched the surface of the program’s photo collection...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1962 Rambler Classic
I’ve always loved the dip in the late 1950s/early 1960s Rambler station wagon roofline. Not sure what purpose it ever served, other than maybe to cut down on glass expenditures at the factory. One of...
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Lost and Found: Palin’s Rambler
With the release of MSNBC’s Sarah Palin retrospective, the world has one burning question: What happened to the Palin family’s 1967 Rambler? Finally, common ground for Jeep-loving Barack Obama and...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1960 Rambler Custom
It may just be me, but it seems like I only ever see Ramblers from this era in one of two conditions: rusted-out junkyard denizen with broken windows sitting on its brake drums, or well preserved...
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Parts-O-Plenty: AMC
If you’re in the midst of an AMC restoration, Ontario, Canada-based Jim’s Restoration has released a number of new reproduction parts in recent months, beginning with the rearview mirror pictured...
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I know, the Iowa Department of Transportation has to be about the unlikeliest source of entertainment, and much of their Vimeo video stream looks like a snooze fest, but we did enjoy their “Highway...
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Fran Hernandez: a life in pictures
If there’s an unsung hero of American performance cars, it’s Francisco “Fran” Hernandez, the Southern California hot rodder turned factory racing facilitator. He’s known variously for being one of the...
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Flooded Rambler, turnip-trumped Airflow, Plordolet
Charlie Beesley’s interests don’t just run to old land-speed racers, as one might assume from seeing the pictures of the Kenz and Leslie 777 streamliner that he shared with us last week. Rather, he’s...
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Hemmings 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...
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Boomerang: The only Gremlin exported to Australia returns to the United States
Brian Moyer was a little perturbed. For Saturday’s car show at the AACA Eastern Regional Fall Meet, show officials had listed his 1971 Gremlin as an AMC even after he thought he had made it clear on...
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Lost Dealerships Project: Compass Rambler
Another Alden Jewell great, today’s look at a lost dealership takes us to Costa Mesa, California, circa 1960, when Compass Rambler was active at 1745 Newport Boulevard. We see there’s an Aamco at that...
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