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1963 Rambler American 440 hardtop with "Twin-Stick" manual overdrive transmission 1963 Rambler American 330 two-door station wagon. For 1963, model designations were changed once again with the 400 now called 440. A new hardtop (no B-pillar) coupe body design debuted, whose steel roof was designed to mimic the appearance of a closed convertible ...
For 1968, Rebel station wagons, SST coupe, and SST convertibles were marketed in the UK alongside the Ambassador saloon (sedan) and Javelin. The distributor in London was Clarke and Simpson Limited and the cars were marketed as "the only American car built with RHD." [140] The Rebel 770 station wagon was available with an I6 or V8 engine. [140]
This 108 cu in (1,767 cc; 1.8 L) unit is an AMC designed air-cooled V4 engine that was only used in AMC's lightweight aluminium-bodied M422 'Mighty Mite' military vehicle, built from January 1960 to January 1963 as an air transportable (by the helicopters of the time) Jeep for the U.S. Marine Corps. [1]
The 1972 model year VAM models incorporated the same engineering revisions and upgrades as the U.S. market AMC-built counterparts. Engines were the same as the year before with a one-barrel 145 hp (108 kW; 147 PS) 232 I6 as standard on the sedans and automatic wagon and the two-barrel 155 hp (116 kW; 157 PS) version for the manual transmission ...
The 4.0 L is one of AMC's best-known engines. [30] It was one of four AMC engines kept in production when Chrysler bought AMC in 1987. Chrysler engineers continued to refine the engine to reduce noise, vibration, and harshness. The last in the line of the AMC inline sixes, the 4.0 L is regarded as one of the best Chrysler 4x4 off-road engines. [31]
1961 Rambler Classic Cross Country. The new 1961 Classic 6 and V8 models went on display in Rambler showrooms on 12 October 1960. [1] They filled the mid-range in AMC's line of compacts and offered as a six-passenger four-door sedan and as a station wagon with two rows of seats and drop-down tailgate or an optional rear-facing third-row seat and side opening fifth door. [8]
The car featured AMC's 232 cu in (3.8 L) six-cylinder engine and a three-speed manual transmission. [83] The car was presented at the 1970 Sydney Motor Show to gauge interest and test the market. The car was featured on the front cover of the November 1970 issue of Australia's top motoring magazine, Wheels magazine. [ 83 ]
Along with the usual four-door sedan and station wagon was a new four-door hardtop sedan. Rambler also introduced the industry's first four-door hardtop station wagon in 1956. [10] The station wagons used the same rear doors as the sedans with the back roof dipped lower over the cargo area and featured a standard roof rack. [10]