Who remembers AMC?

[KyDawg]

And who can forget when Chrysler and Mitsubishi teamed up. Nothing like foreign parts under a domestic name plate.

Commonplace these days.

 

[Oldstick]

And who can forget when Chrysler and Mitsubishi teamed up. Nothing like foreign parts under a domestic name plate.

Or domestic parts under a foreign name. Like the Mitsubishi Raider truck and I think the Eclipse as well. I know the 99 Eclipse was a piece of "work" because my daughter had one in high school. Less than ten years old and I had to sell it for junk because it literally started falling apart except for the motor.

 

[Jeepnfish]

My first car was my dads 77 AMC Hornet wagon.

 

[NOYDB]

I'm not old enough. But anyone remember rumble seats? Or a safety precaution to start the motor on a model T?

 

[NOYDB]

And for the future -

Why Jaguar is outfitting self-driving cars with ‘googly eyes’

“Overcoming millions of years of evolution in a few decades is simply not an option,”

https://bigthink.com/stephen-johnson/why-jaguar-is-outfitting-self-driving-cars-with-googly-eyes

Not cool to run down jaywalkers, with out your car winking first.

 

[normaldave]

Yep...here was one, when properly driven, could ruin your day if you were driving any of an assortment of the "big three" big block cars against it.

1969 AMC Hurst SC/Rambler

I also remember as a kid, hearing, "war stories" of Alabama State Troopers running some specially equipped 1971 AMC Javelin 401 V-8 (2-Door) pursuit cars. Certainly intimidating looking if nothing else. Spoiler, factory chrome dual exhaust, Goodyear raised white letter tires, factory road wheels. Certainly not the typical trooper sedan with dog dish hubcaps, 4-doors, and no chrome trim.
"You in a heap o' trouble boy...".

Ok, to be accurate, a slight derail:

 

[Jack Ryan]

I'm not old enough. But anyone remember rumble seats? Or a safety precaution to start the motor on a model T?

Rumble seat, sure.

My kids rode in the rumble seat. My mom and aunt were crazy about riding in it.

I had a '30 Model A coupe.

 

[Artfuldodger]

AMX with a rumble seat;

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[Artfuldodger]

Old Mustang station wagon;

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[Artfuldodger]

It's cool some of the engines they built for Ford Escorts in Britain for rally cars. Mark1 and mark2, etc.

http://www.wilcoxengines.co.uk/bda.htm

 

[Artfuldodger]

Remember these two Chrysler engines? The slant six and the 300F;

 

[Artfuldodger]

What about some unusual things like the old Buicks that you didn't turn the key to crank them? They had a starter pushbutton under the gas pedal.
Studebaker put their starter pushbutton under the clutch pedal. Light dimmer switches were on the floor as well but that was pretty common.

We had a 1956 Cadillac with an electric dimmer for the lights. The gas cap was under a taillight as it was on the 56 Chevy Belair. The filling station guys had trouble finding it sometimes. Some Chryslers that pushbutton transmission controls. Some seventies Oldsmobiles had swivel bucket seats.

Here is the gas cap on 56 Chevy Belair;

 

[LTZ25]

We had a Rambler 770 classic convertible when I was 16 , nice car .

 

[Capt Quirk]

Old Mustang station wagon;

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I have never even heard of a Mustang wagon, pretty cool indeed! I do remember the Pinto and Vega wagons, and there was a dancer who had a Corvette custom wagon that was pretty cool.

I really like the old amcs, the AMX and the Javelin, had a buddy that had a Faberge AMX. Nice interior. But, I really got a thing for Gremlins, and I don't know why.

 

[NCHillbilly]

I used to have a '67 International Scout-the old style that looked like a cross between a Jeep and the original Ford Bronco. That was a tough rig, you couldn't stop it offroad even though it had a slant-head four cylinder engine.

One of my uncles used to have a Studebaker pickup truck.

The old Willys Jeeps were great hunting rigs, too.

 

[Argent11]

AMC? The walking dead network? Just kidding, I knew what you were talking about. I still have one of their jeeps with the 304 in it.
That was a lot of motor for a CJ5, it will almost pop a wheelie.

 

[Patriot44]

I used to have a '67 International Scout-the old style that looked like a cross between a Jeep and the original Ford Bronco. That was a tough rig, you couldn't stop it offroad even though it had a slant-head four cylinder engine.

One of my uncles used to have a Studebaker pickup truck.

The old Willys Jeeps were great hunting rigs, too.

I know exactly the scout that you are talking about. It was smaller than the 70’s era and once heard PawPaw say, “at Scout ‘ll climb a tree”. In southen WV, Scouts were a commodity.

Was it green?

 

[Argent11]

My dad and I owned three SS el Caminos, sold mine in 99' his went in the 80's. Bad sell for me, the price really jumped around 2005

I had one of those once. But a drunk Mennonite ran a red light and Tboned it totalling it out.

 

[Nicodemus]

I used a 1945 Willys Jeep as a hunting rig for a couple of years. Those things would go near about anywhere. A bear hunter in Crossnore North Carolina ended up with it.

 

[NCHillbilly]

I know exactly the scout that you are talking about. It was smaller than the 70’s era and once heard PawPaw say, “at Scout ‘ll climb a tree”. In southen WV, Scouts were a commodity.

Was it green?

Yep, dark green. That was my coon hunting and bear hunting rig for years. It would get you into places you were about afraid to come back out of.