AMCrebel wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 10:52 am
I think the AMC would win on rarity - the Fury on everything else. Also my AMC is and always will be a rolling resto (albeit not on the road at present) whereas that fury is a much higher standard.
It is?
Re: 1968 AMC Rebel
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 6:47 pm
by mercrocker
Not the same things at all but closest we can so far get....
MotorTrend magazine also did a group test on the '71 LTD, Ambassador and Fury.....
Re: 1968 AMC Rebel
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 12:51 pm
by AMCrebel
That was brilliant - one of the first things I noticed as a difference in the USA was those “competitor product x is wank” adverts. I’m not sure why they never really caught on in the UK. I suppose there was that subtle dig at BMW when the loud brash yuppie didn’t like the Audi…..the irony.
Re: 1968 AMC Rebel
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 1:03 pm
by paulplom
Probably too scared of being sued for libel.
Re: 1968 AMC Rebel
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 1:15 pm
by Eddie Honda
It had to be brand x in the olden days because of trademark infringement.
You can do comparitive advertising in the UK these days, within a set of rules.
Re: 1968 AMC Rebel
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 1:30 pm
by mercrocker
Chrysler's dig at the Hornet was typical, though, of partisan Big Three automobile makers taking an elephant gun to small prey.....American Motors must have had one of their periodic little upturns in sales.
Re: 1968 AMC Rebel
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 1:32 pm
by PhilA
Problem with that kind of advertising propaganda is that a lot of people will take it at face value and believe that Plymouth was making superior vehicles.
Why does the AMC product have less room? If I recall, it crashes a damn sight better than the Plymouth, which hasn't really been upgraded underneath since the early 60's.
Re: 1968 AMC Rebel
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 1:50 pm
by AMCrebel
Having sat in a mate’s 1970 Duster I can’t say the quality of the interior seemed immediately superior to the AMC
Re: 1968 AMC Rebel
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 1:53 pm
by PhilA
AMCrebel wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 1:50 pm
Having sat in a mate’s 1970 Duster I can’t say the quality of the interior seemed immediately superior to the AMC
That's because DUSTER uses high technology poly vinyl chloride and poly methyl methacrylate materials for its interior while REBEL uses mere cheap plastics.
Re: 1968 AMC Rebel
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 4:05 pm
by AMCrebel
It is true that you couldn't order an ammeter on AMCs. The Ammeter on my mate's Duster was the reason I was there - it routes the entire pos supply through that (as the old ones used to) via a crappy connector on the firewall. The connector always fails and the result is no power, and therefore no start. I mended his by bypassing it. I was a hero when I got it started for him as he couldn't get any auto sparkies to even come and look and he couldn't start it up to take it anywhere.