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*Updated* Farm find '68 Rebel SST I just bought

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote azfletch Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Sep/30/2015 at 3:52pm
Great find, But the black Machine is a 69 not a 68. Look at the Rebel letters on the front fender.
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DISCLAIMER: the following is what I currently think, not what I know to be fact, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

From the photos I've obtained, the prototype has '68 rear end (no wraparound taillights, the trapezoidal parking light) and '69 grille (inner headlights included in the main grille), as well as the '69 block lettering on the fenders instead of the '68 script logo a little lower. The car was a prototype of what they would put out in '69 using what they currently had, a '68. It seems much easier to exchange grille/headlight/logo parts than completely different endcaps and taillight assemblies.

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I'll put this a politely as I can... I hate you!!!!!! Why can't I ever find a deal like that! On a car like that! One of my most favorite bodies! Enjoy, and get us some more pictures.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote george w Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Sep/30/2015 at 5:28pm
Either way stock or clone, you have a great canvas to work with. If you go clone then the vinyl top would have to go ( just don't throw away the trim pieces )If you go stock then keep the vinyl top. It's so period correct.
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Thanks, I plan to keep everything tagged and bagged so the car can be put back to originality (more or less). Right now I'm pricing out media blasting services in the SE Michigan area, hopefully there aren't any surprises waiting under the interior.
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Keep having AMC fun. Awesome !!
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The wrong person operating a media blaster can turn good sheet metal to warped junk....... be careful!!!!!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote THE MENACE Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Oct/01/2015 at 11:00am
Originally posted by skynless skynless wrote:

The intent is to get a '68 Rebel and clone the prototype Rebel Machine. Unfortunately I seem to have found an all original, family-owned car that will probably be frowned upon if modified.

Tell me this wouldn't look cool:



Great find, and I would go with the original "intent", and build the car you want to build!! These things take a lot of time, work and money, so don't try and please others. That black Rebel looks great IMO!!

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If a car sat outside for 30 years here in missouri it would be a pile of rust. Must be the cold that preseved it.
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I'll update with the true state of things once I tear into it. I promised my wife that I'd finish the basement bathroom remodel before touching the new car.......
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