My new 1963 Rambler American fun toy, Little Monster. My 1970 AMC Hornet daily driver. My 1963 Rambler Classic 550 Cross Country station wagon finally has it's own web page. My (in pieces) Navarro-built single-turbo Rambler six motor. Photos of Barney Navarro's Indianapolis-qualifying 700hp twin-turbo Rambler 182 cubic-inch six. Stuff I bought at the Navarro Engineering auction, 14 July 2005. Oh look, the Navarro turbo setup fits in Josh's Hornet.

A comparison of AMC/Rambler engine bellhousings for identification purposes.

A wet blanket on the AMC/Rambler front spindle controversy. Who will be next to succumb to this horrible problem?

The technical service manual for the never-popular, mundane Motorola 3TMR AM radio used in 1963-1964 Classics and Ambassadors.

The technical service manual for the even worse, if that were possible, Bendix 22BA radio used in 1962 Americans. But it's got tubes -- special 12-volt plate types. Cool!

The technical service manual for the Borg Warner R10 and R11 overdrive units used in many, many cars for many decades, including Ramblers of course.

How to fix 1969-up AMC spring perch bushings.

A real, permanent and OEM-clean fix for chronically ailing Rambler (not late-model column-lock) worn-out steering columns; specifically automatic column shift, but much of it applies to manual shifts too.

Removing and replacing station wagon rear/side windows (6310).

An easy electronic replacement for those old Rambler gauge voltage regulators.

A detailed how-to for proper, repeatable assembly of early "big car" (Classic, Ambasador) trunnion front suspensions. It assumes you are competent and have a factory technical service manual.

And here's how to properly assemble an early American trunnion suspension. It's unfortunately not as well done as the big car trunnion page, I missed photographing a few steps. The early American front suspension has some design flaws, and most unrestored cars have ruined upper trunnions. Mine were almost as bad as they get -- and I got them in perfect working order, actually better than new, with an improved upper trunnion bolt you can make at home (or modify an OEM style part). It also assumes you are competent and have a factory technical service manual.

Fabricating reliable replacement strut bushings for the unavailable 1963/1964 Classic and Ambassador part.

Finding good quality replacement strut bushings for AMCs with adjustable strut rods

How to make a safe, reliable, easy front spring puller for 1970-up springs (6.25" outside diameter).

How to replace that old Motorola alternator with a modern and inexpensive "3 wire" Delco alternator.

Installing a Motorcraft Duraspark electronic ignition in AMC sixes or eights.

Here's an Excel spreadsheet that calculates engine RPM vs. MPH in each gear, total engine CFM, and directly calculates tire size. You need to enter your axle ratio, metric tire size (eg. 195-70/R14), and engine cubic inches, it does the rest.

Online auto parts store Advance Auto Parts has an incredible feature -- when you locate a part there's a link called "Buyer's Guide" that cross-references other applications for that part. Great feature for us AMC nuts looking for work-alike parts!

Here are some non-AMC photos of cars in the city of Budapest, Hungary that I took in March 2007. Lots of Trabants!

Eddie Stakes posted these photos of a friend's 1981 VAM Rally GT, a very nice Mexican-produced car based upon the Spirit.

The New! 1950 Nash Rambler! and other greatness, in the May 1950 issue of Modern Motor Car. Be warned, it's a large PDF file.

I had a lovely Zemco CompuCruise computer installed in my 1970 Hornet; very 1970's! It finally drove me crazy and I sold it on eBay. Here is the installation and operating manuals. The install manual is pretty dogeared; that's how I received it.

The AMC-list mailing list now has a website.

Here's a minor discovery while trying to re-create the typeface AMC used on the back of Gremlins in the 1970's.

Christopher Ziemnowicz's scanned and indexed 1967 AMC Sales Data Book is a great resource. It's a mix of sales points and technical specs (with real numbers like available gear ratios etc) and nice photos.

Here are Greg Taylor's Rambler 327 (and 287) V8 engine files, parts and pieces for high-performance Rambler generation-1 V8 motors. (Don't laugh; it's all forged innards and will happily take 20 lbs of turbo boost, stock!)

An incredible load of thanks goes to Scott Selleh (vnm.venom at gmail.com) who of his own volition downloaded the raw, mangled directory of files that was here, and produced very nice functional HTML from it. Really, it's a lot of great work, and makes some historical data available again.

A few files are missing, so there are a few dead links in there, but it's substantially in place.

A nice page about AMC's Hornet.

A great compendium of AMC transmission data. Ooops, it looks like this is Antti-Ville Nauha (Pori, Finland) AMC CLUB FINLAND (AMCCF) list.

A copy of Dr. Rambler's Aluminum 1961 - 1964 ALUMINUM ENGINE page is here. This is a fine introduction to a little-known piece of auto history. The author's email is defunct, the page hasn't been updated in a few years, there are missing photos, and I didn't want to see it become lost or unavailable.

AMC sales brochures. So far, only 1970 Gremlin vs. Volkswagen Beetle, and 1971 full line.

Location of graphics on 1975 AMC Gremlin X/Levi's.

Dealer window sticker from a Gremlin (not mine) In hi-res.

You'd think since I've been driving Ramblers since high school (1973!) I'd have a ton of stuff about them online. Actually, I don't have much of ye olde lore, I'm not much of a collector. I do have a lot of photos, I'll eventually scan them and write up the stories that go with them. There is however a fair amount of documentation on my propane powered 1963 Classic wagon elsewhere; I'll reorganize better later.

The following is a list of cars I've owned, as best as I can recall, in chronological order. I initially lived in Massachusetts, rust-death state; moved to San Francisco, drove the 1979 Spirit AMX out there.

1965 Classic (rusted junker, barely ran, gave to me by my parents)

1962 Ambassador 400 (in great shape, I paid $125 for it!, first car I made nice. Drove it cross-country and back in 1976. Really wish I still had this car!)

1953 Studebaker Champion 1/2-ton pickup (paid $50, sat in a field 9 yrs, rotted out). Unfortunately this is the only photo of it I have, that tiny blue and yellow thing in the background.

1976 Hornet Hatchback (bought it new from Torres AMC/Jeep, Falmouth MA!)

1959 Rambler American (paid $50, rust-bucket, wrecked interior, crossmember finally rusted off, had a lot of fun with this car)

1969 Hurst SC/Rambler (wrong car at wrong time)

1976 Hornet Sportabout (wrong car for me)

1977 Hornet Hatchback AMX (very, very nice, should have kept it)

1979 Spirit AMX (got a lot of use! I broke unibody, donor for next car)

1970 Hornet #1 (it got the AMX suspension, wheels, brakes, etc)

1963 Classic 550 Cross Country (it got above suspension/brakes, plus gigatons more, still have this car)

1975 Gremlin X (sold Aug 2001).

1970 Hornet #2 (my current project car)

And I mean these are the only cars I've owned, other than a 1996 Honda del Sol, a 1996 Honda Accord, and long ago, a 1955 Studebaker Champion truck. I don't have a "regular" car, Ramblers are my "regular" car, since 1974.