AMC Week has been a huge hit, and we’re on track to break the record for our biggest week ever. There’s been a lot of speculation here this past week as to how AMC could have survived, and what a 2014 Rambler would look like. We just have to head down to Curbsidelandia (Cuba) for our answer to the second part, where CC reader ptfour caught this modernized Classic. He says he has more shots, and more Cuban Ramblers. Maybe we’ll have to do AMC Week again sometime. Yes, well, one of these times., but I’m a wee bit Rambled out for the moment.
But in just over a week (Feb. 3), our next theme week starts: Big Rig Week. Large trucks, buses, construction equipment; anything over-sized is fair game. Thanks to everyone for making Rambler Classics a bigger success here than they ever were in their time.
Looks like an E34 BMW 5-series underneath. I wonder if BMW + AMC = BMC? 😉
Or AMW…
I think there’s a Nissan Maxima under all that “Rambler”
The doorhandles and mirrors, glass and surrounds are definitely E34. The Maxima’s glass is similar but the rear quarter window surround is too thick on the Max and the door handles are totally different. Definitely a BMC 52bler i.
Nice thought but just where do Cubans get these BMWs to customise they are readily available and very cheap here but probably not in Cuba
Import from Europe? The embargo is an american affair, we have cuban goods in our stores (tobaco and rum) so I’ll assume that it is legal for goods to go the other way to. Fraight might be a problem since it would cost more than the car is worth but if you know someone who is a sailor and going there anyway it might workout. Or maybe it was in an euoropean westindies colonie before getting to Cuba.
the gap between front door and wheelwell looks wrong. The door mirror looks closer than the maxima one, but the rear door opening looks like neither. Tricky one!
It have been an interesting week even tough my actual exposure to AMC cars is very limited. I do know that my dad was a car salesman during most of the 70s and he worked with the dealer that was the distributor of AMC and Toyota cars here in Puerto Rico. I was born in 74 so I don’t have many memories of those times. I do remember that in the early 80s one of the neighbors across the street from my grandparents house, had a white Hornet wagon and that I actually rode in it. I always found interesting the door handles. Those AMC handles were unique. I also remember the sound of the inline six. It was very peculiar. I also remember that my dad at one time in the 80s purchased a orange Gremlin with black vinyl interiors. It was automatic. I loved that car for one reason only. It got a huge almost full roof, cloth sunroof. He only kept that car for a few weeks as he purchased it to sell it for a profit but for me that was one of the coolest car ever because of that sunroof.
Oh, man. I don’t want AMC week to end. I know it’s time to move on, and that a lot of people are eagerly awaiting Beige Camry Week, but… Dang! We even got an article from Perry on Ramblers in Iran! It’s been a lot of fun.
BTW, everyone. I was kidding about Beige Camry Week. As far as I know, there will be no Beige Camry Week in the forseeable future.
No Beige Camry Week? That only leaves Beige Accord Week
What if there’s no Beige Accord Week? That only leaves Bisque Refrigerator Week
You seem to have posted a photo of a bisque Volvo 740 beside the Accord. 😉
LOL
Damn, I always get them mixed up
Dude, that’s funny.
I’ve left a set of Cuban Ramblers (and this Frankenstein Studebaker) on the CC Flikr page – enjoy
Wow, that’s the most tragic looking thing, its like a Chinese Studebaker knock off.
+1 Although, it does pose the question “If Studebaker were still around today…”
Seriously, those fenders, hood and bumper fit perfectly! Even the scalloped side completes correctly. How did he do it????
Good idea to announce the theme weeks ahead of time. I went (briefly) to a classic truck show back in November so I will see what parallel universe I can scrape together.
Yep but I missed a shot of one of Pauls beloved GM buses recently it was crawling up one of our mountains it was camper converted towing a Suzuki jeep and workin real hard.Loved the howl of the Detroit.
Thanks for AMC/Rambler week I really enjoyed it especially the Javelin parts.
I just skimmed by this post, assuming it to be Photoshop. Then, I found out it wasn’t. Yikes!
Since we’re ending AMC week with an oddball Rambler mash-up, I thought I’d add this head-scratcher to the mix
Or its alter-ego: The Gremalibur. Take your choice – sport or brougham?
Wow, that is so bad it’s
good!…yeah, nah, it’s just bad… 😉What is that car for, cheap pimps?