ABANDONED 35 YEARS! Will This AMC Rebel RUN and DRIVE Again?
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- čas přidán 21. 04. 2024
- “For Christ also suffered for sins once for all time, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;" -1 Peter 3:18
The AMC Rebel is one of the coolest cars from the muscle car era. I finally got my hands on one, will it run and drive after sitting for 35 years? Stick around to the end of the video to find out!
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Unpopular opinion: This might be the coolest car you've saved. However that whole row of cars you have is pretty fantastic
AMC’s are completely under appreciated. I have a incredible 71 AMX.
Nope, you're spot on
not unpopular. love this body style
I've been waiting for an AMC
Agreed!
Love the AMC inline 6’s😁 Lots of people forget that “jeep’s 4.0” is actually an amc inline 6, one of the most reliable engines ever produced.
No doubt. There are some hardcore AMC folks that almost worship these engines. The AMC 6s only. Not the Chrysler variation.
Was thinking this would be a good candidate for a 4.0L swap
So is Chrysler's 225 Slant Six, just as reliable. Ford's and Chevy's inline 6's just never held up like AMC/Jeep's & Mopar's six-cylinder engines did.
Honestly where Jeep be without the mpw from Ford, the gpw from Willy's and also the AMC 258 and 401 both AMC motors...
I don't know about that as far as Ford's go the 200,249, and 300 are fairly decent durable L6 motors ..
AMC vehicles deserve to be rescued
I have a lot of respect for the AMC line and have fond memories of racing against them. All except for the "fishbowl" car. The Javelin, AMX, Rebel Machine, Scrambler Rambler, Matador. All were sleek and if you tweaked them they were no slouch. A close friend of mine had a Gramlin X 304 that we tweaked. It got a Holley Intake & 650 with Hooker underbody headers and a cam. We got a junk yard bell housing and had a local welder move a bolt hole so a Borg Warner T-10 would bolt up, then put the Javelin 10-1/2" clutch in front of it. We shortened the drive shaft to fit and to top it all off, he bought a Hurst Super Shifter for it. We completely changed the personality of that little Gremlin. It pulled great 1st, 2nd and 3rd gear with 3.54 axle, but kind of fell off in 4th. I had a mediocre GTX w/ dana 3.55 4speed and he could almost keep up with me until we hit 4th. So I have a lot of respect for those AMC's. One of my uncles worked for the state of Michigan and they gave him a Rebel one year. I always thought it looked remarkably similar to a 1st gen Roadrunner. I absolutely hated the day when AMC went belly up, and Iacocca got it, but welcomed the Jeep line into the family where once was under the management of Walter P. from about 1911 to 1919 under Buick. That's my story about AMC. ben/ michigan avid Woodward Avenue and Gratiot
Avenue racer
I used to have a 67 rebel and I loved it. My girlfriend was driving it one night and hit a dang tree and totaled it. 😢
Why on earth did they plant a dang tree in the middle of the freaking road? 🤷♂️
🏁 Had a 67 AMC Matador right hand drive 🏁
I hate to give you a hear for that but I had to because you owned one!
That's your fault for letting her drive it 😂
I say power tour dork command lol @@DylanMcCoolVideo
first time i recall ever seeing one of those and ... i have to say i LOVE the look of it already. Glad its getting TLC .... the more newer cars all look the same to me ... the more i feel older cars "have character"
Do what you can for her, she's a rare bird!
As a Ford guy it's nice seeing AMCs getting some love and I think they are very under-rated. My dad has a restored 1969 AMC AMX and my friend has a 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 with a 304 V8 swapped into it then an 82 Eagle Wagon for parts (it may also be revived one day)
Get you a pet Goat like the Sleeperdude . They'll eat all the lichen and moss of the exterior .😂
So happy to see an AMC revival!
Just what I needed to finish off my Monday
I picked up a 69 Rebel last year. It’s my project. 290 V8 auto, white with blue interior.
Please keep it AMC. Their engines are very reliable give a good account of themselves on the road. They run strong for their displacement.
@@scrambler69-xk3kv don’t worry! When I found the original engine seized, I first thought about swapping, but I scraped that idea. I’m building a 304 and 727 to replace the original 290 and BW auto.
Cool car, be good to see it restored than just run and drive.
I owned many 232s. I’m from Kenosha, world headquarters for AMC. I had quite a few growing up. We called em Kenosha Cadillacs. But the 232 is a very tough little engine. Very worth while. Good luck with her.
Yup, I'm from Kenosha too. 48 years old. Grew up seeing these as daily drivers but mostly Hornets, Matador, Concords, Eagles. These old 232's , 258's can run just about forever. Remember the unibodies going down 52nd st from downtown
Thank you for saving a AMC .
I've been waiting a while for one of the restoration channels to feature one .
Dang that old Ford truck sounds like one ‘em John Deere “Johnny popper’s” tractors from the 1940’s!
There's a episode for the Ford tow recovery truck on Dylan's channel too lol
Rebels are pretty cool. AMC had a few good models, for sure.
Yellow with a green interior was a fairly popular color combo in those days. I am sure that car originally had a bench seat.
I had a 68 Rebel SST, same body but with a prettier trunk lid and taillights.
Really? That’s wild. I’ve never seen that color combo before.
@@DylanMcCoolVideoYes, my friend's parents bought a new Chevrolet Caprice that was the same cream yellow with dark green interior.
@DylanMcCoolVideo I used to have a buildsheet from a 1972 yellow Duster with B5 blue interior and a sunroof.
Also, yellow with a red interior, not common but not unheard of. @@DylanMcCoolVideo
I know my car a much newer gm but i used to have a 84 Oldsmobile cutlass supreme brougham buttercream yellow and dark burgundy pinstripe and interior odd color combinations Mopar and AMC and gm were known for... it's not the only 81-87 Oldsmobile cutlass i seen like that either although most of them are chocolate brown or peanut butter tan interior instead of burgundy
You should leave six banger .It runs amazing and besides that's the way it came from the factory . It's a unique piece of AMC history .I'm surprised it still has the 232 six in it . Mamaw and Papaw must have ordered this one .
It’s cool for sure. Just not for me.
@@DylanMcCoolVideoswap an amc v8 into the thing. Maybe smaller but they are good for these cars
Love the Rebel. I truly hope you can get this one fixed up really well. My great uncle bought a 1968 Rebel wagon with the same inline 6 engine band new from Andy Egan Rambler in the Tacoma area. After he passed away in the early 1980's, dad bought the car from our aunt and gave the car to his brother who was in desperate need of a car. Dad almost kept it and gave him our 1975 Toyota Corolla wagon. That inline 6 was getting 25mpg! Fast forward 10 years and we got the car back from dad's brother. The transmission had gone out. We got the car running again and restored it. That thing was great! Didn't get the mileage it did after carb rebuild but you could fairly easily fit 4 people across those bench seats. I wish dad had kept it but he insisted on selling it because it was a "worthless station wagon". The kid that bought it wrecked it beyond repair!! I so miss that car. Dad said the Rebel V8 cars were real movers. He had a '67 Cougar that could beat almost anything out there but he said the Rebels would give him a run for his money.
I Like it. Patch the front fenders nicely, add floor pans, and go 401. 👌
1974 worked at a AMC dealer in Stuart Fl,,,, Owned a couple of Javelins, (a 1968 and a 1973) ran them at Moroso Motor sport park in Palm beach. (closed but still there)
Dylan, I am a HUGE A.M.C. fan first car at 16 was a 1964 Rambler Classic 550 4door with a 6cylinder and a 3 speed automajik ...lol.... and learned to drive on my dad's 65 Rambler Classic 550 station wagon with a 287 V8 and the same 3 speed auto. I saw near the beginning of the video, when you were in the field rescuing this very cool Ambassador, that there was also an one of the all-time COOLEST cars made, not just by A.M.C., but by any of the North American car companies, an A.M.C. Marlin, the much sexier cousin to the Mopar Barracuda of that middle 60's era... did you do the absolute RIGHT thing and pick it up as well as the Ambassador?... and if I'd watched 5 minutes more, I would have heard you say you were "coming back" for the Marlin....lmao.
the AMC sixes had very decent low end tourque
Thanks Dylan for the advice booking Power Tour! We got the hotels booked also! We decided to do all 5 days in our red 67 Mustang convertible! So keep an eye out for “Sally”!
I actually have the Rebel Machine hood scoop with the tach bracket & under hood pan
Ooh that would be cool!
Very cool stuff
I had to keep a date for Valentines day years ago and my X1/9 died. Guy I worked with at the time sold me a 67 Rebel 770 Classic 4 door. It had 4 bald snow tires and couldn't get out of it's own way until I got used to it. Kept the date, girl broke up with me any way. But I kept the car until I got the X1/9 back on the road. Transmission on the Rebel eventually went out and it only had reverse. Drove it home (7 miles) in reverse. And continued to drive it locally in reverse until the motor seized up. A friend clocked me doing almost 70 in reverse one day. So I would say i got my 75$ worth out of that car. Not as cool as the SST but turned out to be a fun car until the end. True story! God bless, stay well.
18:04 that’s a perfect still shot of you two right here. So precious Dylan.
Hopin' for a 4-spd and 401!
I wish 😂
One of the best channels I just don’t get to watch often enough.
Wow, runs n drives good for having sat since 89. My first car was an early 70's AMC hornet. It was white and had the straight 6 as well. Pulled the valve cover because it had ticky lifters. Turned out the owner basically only added oil when needed. There was so much sludge in the valve cover that it filled a big gulp cup ..lol!!! Memories!!! Great job Dylan!
It looks like a Plymouth, even has Chrysler rims. Sounds like my grandmothers '68 Rambler 440 American wagon. Except hers had a 199 6 cylinder. I remember it well. It was fire engine red with red interior. I grew up in the 80s so that was our main car. It was a little faded and scratched up, with a driver side purple fender that some shop didn't color match, but I loved that car. She bought it new in November of '67 and paid $2900 cash for it. It was a showroom car too and the last car she bought new. Anytime something needed to be fixed on it, my mother would do. Starter, brakes, shocks, leaf springs, flywheel, ball joints, etc. I always remember when it broke down or needed to be worked on. Mostly good memories of it. I would love to find one, along with a 1970 Hornet wagon too, but they are stupid expensive. Glad you got that Rebel running, it sounds fantastic. Keep that engine, it's too good to replace.
Not only does the AMC look really good ..nope, it looks awesome, wonderful, superb ..etc. etc. as it bowls along the highway, you look even better with a wide smile while driving it. There's just those few small snags to fix, like fitting far more comfortable seats, fix the brakes. And loose the Flintstones floor pan ..for your own safety. 'You've got to fix the floor!' I'm not going to be the only one, who's longing to see more of this car, with you in it, again! :-) I. Shane. G.
Love it Dylan! The way it runs is crazy for a car sitting since trapper keepers and mullets were popular. I've always liked the Rebel - it has a Mopar B body look. Can't wait to see what it becomes. Nice save!
Stick a 401 with a 4 in the floor and fix the rusted frame rails and body panels and you would have a nice 2 door hardtop with some good power. It would make a good burnout car.
Good luck finding a 401
I love AMC's cars of the 60's & 70's!! My favorites are all the 1967-1978 AMC Rebel/Ambassador/Matador variations!
Drop in a 440 big block Mopar or an AMC 390, if you got one.
Dylan Fix it up and bring it to HolleyMoparty! Need more AMCs there!
I am ready for a build series from you sir! I really enjoyed the Charger and Challenger series. They are what got me watching you in the first place. Revivals are fun and cool but I like watching one come ALL THE WAY BACK from the dead. My opinion only. I still watch and still enjoy your work, so thanks for making your videos.
I really enjoy Briar’s presence in the video. Keep up the good work!
Love it Dylan. I own 3 Hornet Sportabout’s. AMC made such cool cars back in the day, the ole 232 is a very reliable engine. I put 20k on mine after it sat for 10 plus years.
How cool I checked your channel earlier and seen a new upload, made my day, Fullview always ❤
Very cool car and I love the OG power tower!! 6 cylinders are highly underrated in my opinion, glad you got it running and use it as is for mow
The variety that you bring back to life is just fantastic
Awesome car bud I love the rebel it’s really an underrated muscle car
HI GUYS ,, YOU DID A GREAT JOB FIXING THIS CAR UP AND GETTING IT RUNNING,,.. MY SON MAX 8 YR.S OLD LOVES YOUR VIDEOS AND OTHERS MY SELF TOO .. IN THE 80S I REMEMBER MY FRIEND NEXT DOOR SHE HAD A LIGHT COLOR RED REBEL 4 DOOR.. THEN I WENT IN THE MILITARY SHE SOLD IT.. MY SON MAX WANTS TO SEE PART 2 OF THIS CAR!!! HE ASKED WHAT DOES REBEL MEAN??? I SAID A CIVIL WAR ,,REBEL TROOPER.. HE LIKES THE OLD CARS AND THERE NAMES .. THANKS,,.PEACE!!!
You know Ronald, YELLING is considered to be very rude, even on the internet. Keep it down, will you?
Love your show! Keep up the good work
I'm restoring a 1967 AMC ambassador 990, I absolutely love old AMC from 50s to 70s
You should take out the seats and remetal the floors. Then reapohlster the back seat and put a split bench seat back into the front. You'll thank me later. Fix the back frame with new metal, for structural support. Fix the holes in the fenders. Pretty much just make it structurally sound. CLEAN THE WINDOWS. Not trying to tell you what to do, just want you to be safe. Since it's been sitting for 35 years, you might want to check all the bearings. Definitely put some oil with the right zinc additives, so as not to spin a rod bearing. Etc. Love this kind of content, just want you to be safe for yourself and everyone else on the road.
Nice looking car fix it up love the body style keep up the good work and thanks for bringing older vehicles back to life make the rebel look like no other car its cool
Sweet old AMC! That old inline six turned out to be a gem! Also, love the 4 door F Body i spotted as you were backing out the Rebel for the first drive.
My 72 fury was that color combo, more beige than the rebel which AMC seemed to have a lemon like tint to theirs. Great video, would love to see this powered by a Mopar big block, and get some attention to the body and floors. Thank you for sharing.
I am from Wisconsin. It's common for AMC's to rust out in the tops of their fenders. Love the look of the car
Yet again older cars are fixable even im impressed well done brother
Love the Rebel. Cant wait to see what you do with it.
Baby’s allowed to swipe your microphone! LOL 😂 That AMC is actually pretty cool! Grab a junk hood or something to patch the floors for now, and some seats out of whatever. I’d drive the it!
This video put a big smile on my face! Especially the burn out. Old online 6’s don’t die.
After Power wash..Exterior looks great. YES MORE REBEL PLEASE!!!!!!!!
Good morning, Dylan! Come on now! You've GOT TO name that car "Christine!" No, it's not a 1958 Plymouth, but the way those headlights came on...😨
and fitted with a '58 Plymouth radiator?!😳 Great video. I love seeing old AMC models on the road. It'd be nice to see this get a complete overhaul. Thanks for sharing. God bless.
Briar, weld up some floor reinforcement patches, or at least some self tappers and scrap sheet metal. Mabie patch up that frame under the trunk area
I love all the AMC cars, keep em coming!
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The Rebel is crying for a V-8 and Floor Pans. Love that six for the smaller AMC Products. and a Newer Interior for the Driver.
Hope you can get your hands on an AMC Eagle sometime. I know nothing about them, just I always liked the look of 'em. Keep up the great work. 👍
It would nice to see a nicely restored Rebel that can go out on some events. Awesome looking cars.
Cool Mopar, I think a relative in my mother's generation, back in the 60's had one. It looks vaguely familiar. Good to see your adorable baby girl again, and awake this time. Im going to look again, but Im thinking she has your eyes and her mama's smile!😊
AMC is not a MOPAR. This car was made 20 years before Chrysler bought AMC.
On any old engine that's been sitting for a long time you should pour some oil into the cylinders or the intake to get the rings to seat and if you think the compression still isn't good mix some graphite with the oil it'll stick to the scratches in the cylinder walls.
Take the plugs out and spin the engine too.
Great video guys keep them coming 👍
What a great looking car! nice work.
I love AMC!! I used to have a 68 rebel sst 401 727 torque flight.
This is a perfect power tour car!!!!!!!! full interior resto, new floors, clean windshield
,fresh oil change, new stereo and ac
Good I'm glad you are going to do something with it and Fix the little beast up 😊
I definitely want to see some amc Rebel content! They're such a cool looking car
westport wa.state here sirs.
we called them nerd bucket's. and yes i owned a coupe of them. great for camping if you had the bench seat. a lot of them the front seat folded down and back seat. the whole inside became a bed. thank you for the show.
Really cool car, can’t wait to see what you guys do with it!
Excellent video Dylan :) , Bryer :) also never to much AMC cars till High School in Auto Mechanics Shop classes in 1989 to 1994 and then years later at vechile shows also shocking me too ! Even Rambler to saw one at Local vehicles show at fair also was my one Aunt boyfriend had one and then saw local vehicles show my elder cousin Albert has in super condition!
Theres an old 70 Rebel 4 door sedan west of Lawton, where I live in a town called Indiahoma. It's really "Patina'd out as well... Old AMC's ROCK!!!!!!
49:11 i love this body style, great design, so cool
The AMC Rebel is definitely awesome! Perfect candidate for wide tire. Since frame, trunk, and floors need replacing. New interior for family paired to a floor shift and a big block 440.
The heart of the AMC that you were trying to do CPR on is the Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge, and I guess AMC indestructible slant six engine, or as Josh Dillon calls it "the leaning tower of power". I call it indestructible because I and my siblings tried. My parents had six kids. In my teens, (I'm 68 today) there were three or four of us driving at any given time. To provide vehicles for that herd, my dad would go to the naval auctions at Great Lakes Naval Station and bid on the "not running" Plymouth Valiants. We would drive those things into the ground. (I wrecked two of them) Dad would pull the engines out of the wrecks and go back to the auction. So dad always had two or three functioning slant sixes on the floor of his garage. I can't tell you how many Valiant bodies we went through, but I'm pretty sure there were no more than six or seven slant sixes. After Dad passed, we kids cleared out his storage areas and found a slant six waiting for it's next body. We smiled.
If you didn't know it , the wheels are special , think they were called Machine Wheels , mainly found on the Rebel " The Machine " cars. Nice wheels when clean and complete.
They aren't those wheels. First of all this car is 1969, you can tell by the front. But those wheels are very rare and slightly different
This is my thoughts Mr. McCool; there aren't many of these Rebel left at all in the entire country. I would remove and replace the rusted out sections like you did with your Challenger. It will take awhile but you'll be able to find the parts, like the seats, a factory radio, front fenders, rear leaf springs, rear frame rails, etc. As far as the drivetrain you could remove THE 232 IN-LINE SIX and install an AMC 304 C.I. V8
There are shops online. One has all the floor pans and a different one has lots of performance parts and replacement badges. Even vinyl tops and stripes
Congratulations on the start of the old Rebel.
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Hi Dylan and Bri nice video 📹 and workmanship that 6 CYLANDER SOUNDS REAL STRONG 💪 BUT THE FLOOR NEEDS A LAW TO GET FIXED CREEPING ME OUT !!! AND SAY HI TO THE KING FROM LITTLE PETTY FRIEND OF THE FAMILY
Great video man! Thank you.
Definitely a restoration project!
"If you can't tell, it's been sitting for 35 years.". 👍🤣💯 Cool car, Dylan.😎
My first car was a 68 Rambler American Rogue with a 232 engine! Silver grey, black vinyl top, red interior!
I had a 1974 AMC HORNET Sportabout Wagon painted army Green with wood paneling. It had the 258 straight 6, and my father and I drove it down the Alaskan highway in winter from Anchorage, Alaskan to Denton ,Texas in 1986 with perfect performance!!!! The heater was hot as hell, we got fantastic gas mileage, !
It would be a good project car. Floor pan replacement on top of the to do list. Interior restore second. Replace rusted front fender third. brakes fourth. Replace wheel bearings on all four corners fifth. Overhaul/rebuild engine sixth. Replace radiator seventh. There you have it. restore body and paint optional.
I hope you do a lot more with this car!
258 in a gremlin x with a 4 speed would smoke the tires bought in the 70s for 150 bucks now you can't find one great job brother keep on keeping on
Being from the UK , i can say this without irony.. That looks like it could be quite a cute a car. I like the look of it, thanks Dylan for letting us foreigners see something like this.
Great job guys 👍👍
Wow, memories of my parents' 69 green Rebel sedan, nice to see an AMC on your channel, now go back and pick up that Rambler lol
I was hoping the rear glass wasn’t gunna blow out while you were driving. While Briar was power washing, it lifted. The burnout at the end was awesome for a one tire fryer 😄👍
My first car in 1984 was a 67 AMC Ambassador 990 sedan. It had a 290 V8, and yes the tops of the front fenders were rusty. My dad said they all did it. Interior was mint though.paid 250 bucks for it. I wish I still had it.
There's some days I thank the Lord more for the small things than the big. Today I'm grateful for Dylan McCool's channel! But wait. There's more. I think a very cool car like the Rebel (I had a 66 Rambler when I was 18 lol) should be fitted with an engine that is deserving of it's stature! Like an N54! That's right another straight 6 engine! Only this time it's one that will give out Huge power on demand (as long as it's not throwing codes LOL). But honestly why is it that these cars only get like a Small block Chevy or a Ford Windsor 351 or maybe if there's even one to find a 401ci V8 AMC. (Not likely). SO go get a whole engine and drive train from a car there are plenty of around and get the whole computer and wiring harness (Can Bus as well) and throw it into this type of beauty!!! You'll want to keep the BMW ignition and the gauges at least for the install and shove them behind the Rambler dash! But it would fire right up and BOOM Huge HP. Well maybe after a little bit of Tuning but hey why not blow some people away?? Well on second thought maybe the N54 or any other Six Cylinder from our modern cars isn't going to work. After looking a bit harder at the space under that hood I don't think you could get one in there. It look far too small. The 3 liter straight 6 engines of our day are BIG sized engines compared to even the 4.2 6 cyl of the days gone by. But maybe it is just the way the video makes it look?? I don't know.
I learned to drive on a 1968 rebel station wagon with a 6cyl and 3 on the tree. These things were built like tanks
I love the Rebel. I'd like to see more videos of it.
WOW Dylan! This is One of Those Kinda Cars You Don't Really See Alot of Anywhere Anymore!! GREAT BUY!!👍🤗⛄️⛄️
This is one cool car !!!
I was disappointed when I saw the six cylinder….
But this is a gem !!!