Re: [AMC-List] AMC-List Digest, Vol 6, Issue 58

[Michael Bailey <route66rambler@xxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [AMC-List] Rambler American grilles
> 
> Grilles are different for each year of this final
> body style.
> 
> 1966 are bright dipped on the face with two vertical
> lines that break the 
> grille into thirds.
> 1967 are bright dipped on the face with no vertical
> lines.
> 1968 are mostly black with a bright dipped band just
> above the middle with 
> a RAMBLER badge in them
> 1969 are the same except no RAMBLER badge
> SC/Rambler grille appears to be the same as the 1969
> grille except it's all 
> black.
> 
> 1967-69 grilles can all be interchanged without
> problem so the grille isn't 
> the best way to tell these cars from year to year.
> 1966 also used different 
> headlight doors and fenders so I'm not sure how well
> that year grille fits 
> on a later car.
> 
> The black is satin black. You can see some good
> pictures of a perfect 1968 
> grille at 
>
http://www.mattsoldcars.com/gallery/EdmundAnderson2004/low_mile_american/index.shtml.
> 
> You can see a so-so SC/Rambler grille at 
> http://www.mattsoldcars.com/gallery/teague97.shtml
> (near the bottom). These 
> pictures are not all that good but you can clearly
> see that it's not like 
> the 1967 grille.
> 
> Matt
> 
------> Thanks, Matt, that is very helpful.
mike



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