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These cars have a fuel tank in the front of the car and a cold start takes about 7 to 10 pumps of the gas pedal to get fuel to the carburetors. Once the car has been driven there’s fuel in the carburetor bowls but given a few days it evaporates. This is normal.
A guy at work years ago had one of these and he let me drive it. It was a coupe though not a touring car. The non synchronized transmission worked well although I only shifted up no downshifting. I just came to a stop and started from a standstill to make it easier.
A FULL VIEW OF THE CAR WOULDVE BEEN NICE! I’m just looking to check out its lines It reminds me a Mini Chrysler 300! As nd check out that PUSH BUTTON TRANSMISSION THAT WORKS‼️😃
I bought the same car, same engine, same color, only mine was a 1970 when they first came out.....I paid 23 hundred and loved the way it drove and looked and for a 6 cylinder it was pretty fast.....I should have bought the v-8 but I had just bought a cape cod style house for 19 thousand and had a mortgage for 149 dollars a month......Those were the good old days for sure.......I'LL be 90 next year.......
cold weather start. Crank it for about 4 seconds. Press the pedal to the floor twice. Crank it. if it sputters. let run until it stops Press the gas once. crank it. Let it run about 30 seconds and tap the gas again. Put it reverse and let the clutch out slowly and go easy on the gas petal. About a minute later the engine will run a lot better. There will be some heat. About enough to defrost the windshield Then there will be plenty after you go about minute at 60 MPH in 4th. I drove one every day for 3 years. The best thing I ever drove in the snow. Put 14 inch snow tires on the rear and it would go almost everywhere a 4WD would go. Probably the next toughest thing to a FJ 60 Toyota. Minus the ground clearance. Bought it new. Sold it with 100,000 miles on it. Yes I always kept a spare fan belt and a wrench where the spare used to be. Kept the spare in the front.
My late aunt used to own one of these, once upon a time. She was having trouble cold starting it in the winter and said a mechanic had told her to “hold the pedal to the floor.” She obviously missed the part about, “let off the gas when she starts,” because she over-revved the cold engine one frosty morning and blew it up. Poor little old car! 😢
This guy's voice is too "valley boy", with his constant upward inflection at the end of every freaking sentence!...Ugh!...Nice car, I owned a 59, many years ago...same mechanics, just a different body style. Those cars were good for the first 100 thousand miles; after that, forget about it. And we can assume this vehicle was on it's 2nd time around the odometer. It would be a good candidate for a total restoration...There are just a few of these funky cars left...the Rambler American actually saved AMC from bankruptcy for several more decades. It was one of the few cars that AMC made at the right point in time...there was a major recession going on in the late 1950s, and these cars were the cheapest new cars for sale...like $1,850....wow! Their only competition at the time, was from the VW Beetle. AMC tried really hard to keep pace with the Big Three...they just had bad timing, and were always short of investment cash. Good ideas, good cars was not enough!
If it was a 302 I would've been right down! I didn't know a Ghia had a 4 cylinder standard, being it was the top of the line Trim? I used to own a Mustang II 4 cylinder auto. 140 ci (2.3L) 89 hp. The engine was not "Ghia" worthy imho, nor did it have respectable power, smoothness or finesse; basically a Pinto engine in a nicely dressed car.
Can't say I like the way it looks like. Kinda ugly. A Edsel looks much better than this car, however I learned to drive a three speed manual transmission on a 63 Rambler Classic. That car was extremely dependable and never let the family down, ever.
