As a 1964 to 1969 Rambler American/Rogue owner (I have three, an original 6-cylinder 1964 440 Convertible, a mild pro-street V8 1968 Rouge 2-door hardtop , and a V8 1969 American 440 station wagon done up as a B-scheme SC/Rambler) I want to add my congratulations to Jeremy for being the 600,000th member on CarDomain.
Continure reading after the jump .
Here are my three cars:
To give you an idea of just how much potential these Americans have, I went back into my archives and found this issue of Car Craft, dating back to April 1964, six months following the introduction of the new-generation American in the fall of 1964.
Here you will find a feature on customizing the ’64 Rambler, a story called Rash Rambler, a play on words of its Nash origins. One suggestion was to use the curved roof of a donor car to chop and roll the back end of the Rambler, complete with a set of bobbed Corvair bumpers. Designer William A. Moore gave the front end a very  Chrysler Turbine Car-like look with its bumpers removed and a set of Volvo P-1800 parking lights installed.
What’s so interesting is that one of Car Craft's current project cars is a very similar, but squarer '67 Rambler 2-door post car. They built up their car with an AMC 304 V8 and front crossmember scored from a Gremlin (Jeremy even though you’ve already swapped out the engine for the postal Jeep 232, a V8 engine swap is a snap; use any AMC 290/304/343/360/390/401 V8 along with the proper V8 crossmember from a seventies Hornet, Concord, Gremlin, or Spirit) and add a set of late model AMC disc brakes (also from a Hornet, Concord, Gremlin, or Spirit donor car) and you’re all set.
These ’64 to ’69 Americans and Rogues are still reasonably priced and as Car Craft has clearly illustrated, make great project cars. The 2-door hardtops, which formed the basis for the legendary ’69 390-powered SC/Ramblers are a stylish alternatives to the more common Chevy IIs, Falcons, Darts, and Valiants with the 2-door sedans and the station wagons often available on eBay for less than a grand. If you see yourself as some sort of iconoclast, and want to dare to be different, take a look at these often overlooked AMCs, MOPAR’s adopted red-headed step children.
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