Here are the Rambler-related pictures I promised from the 17th Annual Phoenix Orphan Car Picnic, by the Veteran Motor Car Club of America, Valley Roadrunners chapter.
All of these links will go to online photo albums in RustBucket, the home-grown image host for The AMC Heritage Forum and the Route 66 Rambler Report.
The cars were arranged there(at the show) by makes, so these pictures will be in clusters and groups.
Along the first row were Kaiser-Frazer, and some non-orphan but interesting cars.
The next row held non-AMC related orphans.
The third row was mostly Metropolitans & Hudsons(and one Hudson Metropolitan), and some Willys Jeeps and Studebakers.
The last row held a Packard or two, and the rest was Nash and AMC.
I ran my digital camera battery down, and had to go to my camera phone, about halfway up the Nash/AMC row. So all of the AMC pictures look like crap next to the others. Sorry. Some pictures from a 1946 Nash 600 are also in this category. That’s the car I ran out on. I also managed to get one shot of a 1961 Rambler Ambassador wagon before the camera gave out.
Enough. Here we go… 
Kaiser-Fazer Manhattans:
1953 Kaiser Golden Dragon: ooooOOOOoooohhh!!
1948 Willys Overland Jeepster:
A couple of 1949 Willys Jeep Station Wagons:
Nash, Hudson & AMC Metropolitan: Yes, All Three!
Hudson Hornets, from both Hudson and AMC:
1953 Hudson Super Jet, then in its last full year as a competitor to the Nash Rambler; they were on the same team the next season.
Hudson Super Sixes, from two decades:
1946 Hudson Big Boy Pickup: Rare & Beautiful, with a capital R & B.
Some Nash 600’s:
1951 Nash Ambassador Custom Airflyte: 100% Sheer Eye Candy
A pair of Rambler Americans:
1961 AMC Rambler Ambassador Cross Country: The only Rambler wagon did not disappoint.
1966 AMC Rambler Rebel 2 Door Hardtop: Brittania Blue beauty. This is the color I want to paint my wife’s ‘66 American convertible…
1973 AMC Javelin 401 Go-Package AMX. The wild Pierre Cardin-designed interior was supposed to be unavailable on the AMX. It was intended only for the Javelin SST, but some AMX’s have slipped through or been retrofitted with this interior:
Here’s a 1986 AMC Eagle Wagon with a ‘79-80 AMX grille in place. If you look past the rear of the car, through the trees, in the shot from the back, you’ll see my Molly Blue sitting in the parking lot.
Guessin’ that’s about it for now… If I find any I forgot I’ll add ‘em later.
-mike 
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