This is my 1970 American Motors Ambassador Machine. It is a one of a kind car, to my knowledge anyway. My dad and I restored it a while back, as you car see these photos are are right after it was restored, today it looks not quite as good....we had no storage place for it for a while so it sat outside for a coulpe years and the paint looks kind of shitty now. It needs to be totally repainted.

My dad used to run an auto shop and obtained the car as an aboandoned car. He contacted the owner and bought it for a $100, not bad for a rust free California car. It had a 360 cu. in. AMC engine in it that something went wrong with, now it has a 401 cu. in. AMC motor. It was built as a race motor for our Gremlin but decided to put it in the Ambo instead. The Gremlin ran low 13's in the 1/4 with it the Ambo only does/did high 14's because it weighs too damn much.

We decided to paint it like a Rebel Machine because that's what nutty AMC-heads do....make goofy shit, and also cuz it looks hella cool. The stripes are to the exact measurements of the Rebel except they are painted on, not tape, the part of the stripe that is wrong is that it doesn't hook down like on the Rebel. We even got the hood scoop off of a Rebel Machine from my Grandpa, who was also an AMC/Hudson nut, with the original tachometer the fits in the bulge of the scoop, it even works.