Craftsman Box Rebadge
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george4
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No, but I have some of those little magnetic advertisements from various businesses stuck on.
Canadian Charlie
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I have quite a few old car emblems one my 2 older boxes
No, but I put a Craftsman badge on an old homebuilt toolbox.
It was built by my wife's great-grandfather, and he was definitely a craftsman..
Brake and Front End? That used to be my favorite lunch-break reading material!
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No, but I put a Craftsman badge on an old homebuilt toolbox.
It was built by my wife's great-grandfather, and he was definitely a craftsman..
Brake and Front End? That used to be my favorite lunch-break reading material!
Heck, you might as well double the value of the box.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Snap-On-Tools-T...ryZ35625QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I don't know...that would seem a little pretentious...
Since when is a Snap_On emblem "rare"?
Ramblur
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Nice Rambler! How did you lower the front end? Cut springs or those plates that bolt on to the knuckle?
Here is a picture of my American. Bought for $400 (price included spart parts and extra rims for snow tires). I drove it in the Babe Rally (www.baberally.com) that goes from New York to New Orleans. It was a 3,000 round trip.
Here is a picture of my American. Bought for $400 (price included spart parts and extra rims for snow tires). I drove it in the Babe Rally (www.baberally.com) that goes from New York to New Orleans. It was a 3,000 round trip.
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I'm curious as to why a Rambler ... growing up in the 60's everybody who was into performance avoided the Rambler ...
They were one of the first uni-bodies cars. My car weighs around 2,800 lbs, it handles great with modern rubber! It is a question of image, George Romney (father of Mit) was a opposed to the excesses of Detroit in the late 1950s. So he created a conservitive image of fuel milage and crash surviablity. The image lasted a little too long and hurt great cars like the AMX, Javilen and Scrambler.
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You know, that Rambler is actually pretty cool looking. I'm sort of suprised, I'd just avoid the red/white/blue color schemes. Hmmm...flat hood, black wheels, dark body color, a good hot 401.......
Besides the chance to just be different, I can see why somebody would get into the less popular makes and models just because of prices. We live in an era when an SS350 Camaro (a hopelessly slow lump of a car) is worth 30+ grand even though 10's of thousands were built.
Probably the reason for the high cost of old SS350 Camaro's/Firebirds etc .. is because alot of baby boomers who could not afford to buy them when they first came out or were very young at that time could now afford them ..
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Probably the reason for the high cost of old SS350 Camaro's/Firebirds etc .. is because alot of baby boomers who could not afford to buy them when they first came out or were very young at that time could now afford them ..
I've heard that notion from lots of people (and have said it myself as if I have any clue really)...my guess is that it's more a speculative bubble. For some reason Beanie Babies seemed to track tech stocks, and late 60s/early 70s cars tracked housing. My bet is that you'll see a 2:1 price drop within 5 years on a lot of this stuff.
While a few of the cars were pretty darned pricey (in my paperwork dragon trove, I see that one of my 1969 Camaros from years gone by cost over $6000 new)...mostly they were pretty cheap ($3k +/-). Really, I think it's more a question of lemmings being fed by all the TV auctions, magazine articles, etc. The truly stupid things are (not to be snotty...but) lesser cars being sold for a lot of money. When there's only a few hemicuda ragtops in the world, you can bet there'll always be 1 more rich guy than there are cars for sale.
My latest favorite is the faux cars (usually being marketed as 'tribute' cars or some other nonsense). Personally, I find the pro-touring thing a lot more interesting than restored fake cars. A late 60's car is so bad by modern standards (brakes and handling especially, but realistically, they're not especially fast either) that (I think) the really cool stuff is the basically reengineered cars.
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I don't know...I'm a tail-end baby boomer. Camaros, Firebirds, Mustangs, et al were common and cheap in my school days. Take your pick for $500.Probably the reason for the high cost of old SS350 Camaro's/Firebirds etc .. is because alot of baby boomers who could not afford to buy them when they first came out or were very young at that time could now afford them ..
I was inclined to spend a couple hundred more for full-framed cars like the Chevelle, Cutlass and GTO brethren. The AMC bunch were not much sought after. I did know a guy with a Marlin, though.
I had the chance to get 2 '67 vintage Ramblers plus a parts car a few years ago...for free...when my BIL moved out. I guess I should have grabbed them.
My hindsight has always been a couple of years behind the times.
boiler7904
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I have the magnetic "Driver Education Car" from a driver ed car from my high school (12 years ago) magnet stuck to the inside of the lid of mine. Makes for an interesting conversation starter when people see it.
We had giant yellow signs attached to the roofs of our DE cars. They were 4-door 6-cylinder Mavericks. One even had 3 on the tree.
Good Lord, that was 30 years ago.
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I now regret selling my granddads 63 Rambler Classic. It was a creame colored 4 door with aftermarket air that would freeze your tail off no power steering, I seem to at least recall juice brakes. The car was straight as a die and ran like a top. Top end about 60 for extended driving; low geared great snow car for a RWD. If you could not drive straight up the hill turn er around and you could back up the hill easier. I sold er for $700.00 I have kicked myself for years. I wish I had it for a work car now.
One "feature" I remember from my brother in law's cars was the vacuum-powered windshield wipers. I thought it was pretty quaint that AMC was still building cars with such a maniacal device in the late 1960s.
They would go like crazy sitting at a red light, and then flop to a stop when you stepped on the gas.
The AMC R&D team must have taken a few years off to drop some acid, and then came back in time to design the likes of the Gremlin and Pacer.
They would go like crazy sitting at a red light, and then flop to a stop when you stepped on the gas.
The AMC R&D team must have taken a few years off to drop some acid, and then came back in time to design the likes of the Gremlin and Pacer.
Major Ramifications
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That looks good! That emblem brings back memories.
The year I was born, my dad bought a new 1967 Rambler American station wagon. That was our family car while I was growing up, and my dad always referred to it as the "Nash". As a kid, I didn't understand why.
The year I was born, my dad bought a new 1967 Rambler American station wagon. That was our family car while I was growing up, and my dad always referred to it as the "Nash". As a kid, I didn't understand why.
Ramblur
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Just a roller now,no springs,just a 2X4 between lower control arm and
frame rail. Future drag project. Was a factory A/C car though and has a
seperate knob on the controls that reads,"Desert Only".
Not so,at least in the late sixties. My mentor got rid of a super stock
hemi belvedere for this. One of 50 Hurst built AMX's and had to race the
Thunderbolt Fairlanes in Super Stock. Argueably one of the fastest muscle
cars produced. This pic is 1975 US Nationals at Indy,the car still exists and
is bracket raced,running in the 9's with a 401/automatic combo.
We had giant yellow signs attached to the roofs of our DE cars. They were 4-door 6-cylinder Mavericks. One even had 3 on the tree.
Good Lord, that was 30 years ago.
Haha. I remember that too, we used to go by the Driver Eds home at night
and remove that big sign that was thumbscrewed to the driprails and install
on somebody elses car. They got rid of the thumbscrews,so we had to
start taking tools with us...
And one more racing Rambler circa 1967.
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