1969 SC Rambler

That machine is a great car. Rides nice, don't it? It rides and it handles so nice. Mhm You know what I mean? I'd always read that they were really good you know, boulevard cruisers, street machines, and that it's just a beautiful driving car. Nice power steering in it. Yeah. Now the 69 SC Rambler is a little bit more raw. Yes. I mean, it's built to go drag racing. It was built to drag race. Actually, this car was old drag racing. Oh, was it? Yes. So it's seen some action. Yep. Well, you know I think most of them did because they actually created this car to fit a particular class to run in. And most of these things went right from the showroom to the strip Or straight to the strip, yep. So, how many of these they make? Around 1,500. 1,500. And there's two different paint schemes, and I figured it was, you know, one was one year and one was another year, but they were only built in '69. There were two different schemes an A and a B. A and a B. So which, this is the This is the A scheme. Okay. And it was differentiated because, what? It had, well, it has the red, white, and blue and it has the stripe that goes up at the top. Now the B scheme, it didn't have this red. It was mostly white, smaller stripes, I think. Yes. But it didn't have Didn't have the arrow. You know, it's such a funky looking scoop. Mhm It's just, it just looks weird. Yeah, if you take it to a show and everybody thinks you've made it. like, because they're cause they're also, they're pretty raw looking, it does look like a homemade scoop. But that, that again was the The thing that sets the car off. Yeah. Oh yeah. Very lightweight car too. Mhm. Short. Boxy. Yeah. And this maybe was a collaboration like so many cars were back then between Hearst and AMC. Right. They took the cars, send 'em to Kenosha basically over to Detroit. And Harrison put the, put the four speeds in him. I know that they changed some things about the fenders cause they wanted to put bigger tires and they what, what'd they do? They bowed the fenders in. Yeah. That would have been flat otherwise. Mhm And this was the interior, on all of them. This is exactly what you got. Charcoal gray vinyl. And, and again, red, white and blue headrests were stock. They, again looked like, sorta add-ons but I'll tell you otherwise That is what is one real Rambler dash. Yep. They were Hearst shifter T-10 Borg Warner but you got some B here and there, what's that deal? This is just the old drag racer so it's made to go straight. Well one of the interesting things cause back in the day they were all they all went fast in a straight line but they actually built this thing to stop it's got front discs on it Mhm Which, which is kind of amazing. And these, these mirrors looked like the same that were on early Persols. I think to call 'them the Sport Mayer Man. It is a cool looking car. I don't, I think I've only seen a couple of these at shows over the last several years. I mean, they're, they're even more rare than the machine. Yes. You just don't, I don't know you don't see a lot of them. Love the paint scheme though. I mean the Magnum five hundreds painted blue on the wheels. Yep. Jeez. When you were looking for the car were you looking for the particular scheme? I was looking for the A. You wanted the A. Yeah. So the 390 under the hood 315 horse Mhm from the factory let's go look at that. All right. Well it looks familiar. So pretty much functional ram air again Yep. Same block. Mhm Now, this one looks like it's been worked on a bit. Yeah. This one's been drag raced, so got the headers on there. Even though these were built to drag right off the showroom floor, this one's been breathed on to make it even a little tougher. Yep. So 315 stock, what do you think you got here? I, I don't know what I'm compensated. Got him at a 75 horsepower On a car that's about 3000 pounds. Maybe 3,100. Yep. She runs nice. Yeah. I'll bet. It's an interesting place for the, the oil filter on these. The pump must be off to the side and- and you got to get it around the block the way it looks. Yeah. So she's running good too? It's made for strip, but she'll do street? Oh, yeah. Can we take this one out? You bet. Can I drive this one too? You bet you the man. Close her up. I'll get this one. All right, let's do this thing. This one's a little rowdier, right? Yes. It's a little rowdier. All right. Ooh, she sounds rowdier. Just got to give it some RPMs there to get it going. There are a lot higher also. She's louder, too! She kind of just wants to go, you know it's like, let's go, let's go, let's go. It takes a while to get used to that shifter that's a real drag shifter Yeah, you just go straight forward and straight back. Holy cow, Joey. You need to drive this car with a certain degree of respect. Yes This really isn't a street car. This is really a drag car. It is. These roads, it's like a roller coaster, too. Yeah, we're pretty hilly in Southern Indiana. It's got that almost Flowmaster sound to it. This thing's also a lot stiffer sprung. You know, you feel everything in the road. Yeah. The machine is like smooth out the bumps, you feel 'em in this car. You feel 'em in here, yeah. You feel everything in this car. you got a lightweight car with an incredible power to weight ratio. This thing, this thing was hot. Yeah. They did good. This even the original headliner in this these were paper weren't they? Yeah. They made 'em out of paper and I guess they stamped them. What do they call that? A checkerboard square A checkerboard square, yep. That'd be hard to replace. I think there aren't many of these cars around cause they were just used up. Yeah. They wrecked them probably