Regional Specials

[AMX]

Similar to the Dealer Specials this is the place for regional special editions built for a certain area or regional promotion.

[AMX]

Here is the 1969 Raider, a run of 300 Rebels painted in the Big Bad colors especially for the New York, New Jersey AMC dealers.

[IowaEagle]

I had not heard of that one.  Something only a smaller car maker could really do.

[AMX]

Here is the top half of the Raider sheet. Groovy, man!

[Route 66 Rambler]

Oh, boy.  I can't even express how much I love this poster.  And the car idea.  Everything is soooo good.  This thing is a pre-Machine.  One of my holy grails here.
mike

[AMX]

It would be neat to know if any of the 300 Raiders have survived. I can't recall ever seeing one in person or on eBay. There was a BBG/black vinyl top 1970 Rebel listed recently but it was a 6 cylinder. It had me wondering if the Raider was continued for 1970?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/AMC-REBEL-SST-1970-AMC-REBEL-SST-2-DOOR-AMERICAN-MOTOR-COMPANY_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ5357QQihZ009QQitemZ190171246511QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

[IowaEagle]

Such an atypical AMC ad.  Would be worth having the ad itself.

[Route 66 Rambler]

Well, it's not the best job, but here is the two images above stitched together into one poster...  I can still clean this up a lot.
mike

[AMX]

Nicely done! 

[IowaEagle]

Prints out pretty nicely on a single sheet of paper too.

[AMX]

[IowaEagle]

Beautiful Ad.  You would have thought AC would have been added as I am assuming this model was marketed in the warmer climes?  But then all Pacers really needed to have AC.

[Route 66 Rambler]

LA isn't as hot as the rest of the desert, with the ocean winds.  Their days at 100 and over are significantly less than the deserts in Arizona or Nevada, or New Mexico or Texas, either.  It's outside of town that it gets really hot.  Right there in that valley, it stays pretty warm in winter and relatively cool in summer, compared to the extremes of the deserts around it.
mike

[AMX]

  Could you imagine tyring to locate a pair of these decals:


I still haven't found any info on the Gremlin Sundowner. I believe they pretty much ruined one (and a Pacer) on one of those stupid car builder TV shows though. It later showed up on eBay.

[Route 66 Rambler]

Here are a couple of Dealer Ad Templates from 1977, provided to the dealers to assist in Sundowner promotions.  These were on e-Bay about a year ago...


This is a promotional photo of a 1977 Gremlin Sundowner:



Back in December '06, Keleigh Hardy wrote in to the AMC-List, saying he had just photographed a Gremlin Sundowner on Fire Island, in California.  I asked him for copies of those pics, to feature on Route 66 Rambler's Gremlin page, and he was kind enough to send me a couple... 





mike

[AMX]

Yep, that's it! Hopefully someone has been able to save that one...

[Route 66 Rambler]

It really looks to me like it's a driver.  Even without the grille, some care has been taken to mount signal lights in the same approximate location as the originals.  Also, both license plates are straight and clean.  And the tires appear to be properly inflated, and all the glass and lights are serviceable and clean. I don't remember what Keleigh's opinion on the car was, at the time, but I bet you could dig it up on the AMC-List archives.
mike

[Route 66 Rambler]

Dan Strohl's blog over at Hemmings Motor News has given a mention to The AMC Heritage Forum, and AMX's Rebel Raider poster, in a note about strange car colors from the 60's/70's...  TAMCHF marches on. 
mike

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2007/12/31/bring-em-back-olive-get-it/

[AMX]

That's neat, the Raider poster is really getting around!

[IowaEagle]

Cool!

[AMX]

Here's a link to TheAMCForum.com and an original announcement posted by Tom Benvie regarding the 1972 Hornet Yellow Jacket special edition.

http://theamcforum.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1167