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Classic Sedans, Design Collaborations, and Rarities

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American Time Capsule: Abandoned Dealership Collier Motors AMC Has 200+ Classic Cars! (FULL TOUR)

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Robbie proudly presents a 1955 Hemi Desoto 2-door hardtop, describing it as having a 'FireDome 8 Hemi' engine. He also shows a 1964 Rambler American, which was the same model featured in 'Third Rock from the Sun' and driven by a family of aliens. He highlights the design collaboration with Pinin Farina on a 1955 Nash Ambassador, illustrating AMC's forward-thinking design philosophy. The tour continues, showcasing a large stack of vintage tires, a 1961 Ambassador, and a 1959 Oldsmobile.

Goal: Discover more classic AMC cars and their historical context

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Maine, one from Maryland, and one from Florida. They came together. Construction background but all of them. And they dismantled our roof cuz it it was unsafe. They dismantled the whole roof to get that AMX out of here. Wow. And uh it took them one one weekend. I got several trucks. Uh there's a Ford '74 Ranger. That's a Dodge Adventurer. Um a Ford '77 Ford. Some of these are people are spoken for. Let me show you something over here. This again is the Nash Airflight like my dad had the two-door. Wow. He had one that was like chocolate and mint colored. But it was a two-door. But look at the steering column. It's called a Uniscope steer uh gauges. Uh all your all your gauges are in that one pod called a Uniscope. Your temperature, electrical, gas, odometer, speedometer, all that. You just look at one that one spot. It's a very future minded car. Aerodynamically uh designed. It was a unibody car back when cars were uh had a frame on body. This was unibody. Only weighs like 3,400 lb. Really? Chevrolet that size would probably be 4,400 lb. It's uh it's uh They had a they were pioneers in the unitized body thing. This is a This was my dad's personal car in the '70s. In the late '70s, early '80s. It was a Mark uh it was a Barcelona Matador coupe. If you notice the back glass here, they had to homologate Madewell Coupes for NASCAR and they changed this back window here. See this back window? Yeah. They changed this back window cuz it's supposed to go all the way down, but Bobby Allison had to race them and they changed this configuration. So many production cars had to have the back glass to make it in NASCAR. So he did really well. He uh He He won the Daytona 500 and but my dad always loved this car. It was a 364 barrel. Just purred on the road. My My brother was We were They were going to visit me in Nashville, Tennessee. My brother was asleep in the back and he woke up and said, "Why Why are we stopped?" Uh why we You know, they were actually going about 65-70 mph and he thought they were stopped. It was ran so smooth on the road. But this is it's suffered in here cuz it was actually safer outside than inside cuz it a lot of moisture stayed in here and we didn't really realize it. But uh Was this in here with the other car? The the AMX was under there. And they built all this They built that around to to protect the car when they were it If it hadn't been for that uh refrigerator there, car would have been crushed. Wow. But uh they built the framework and…

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