Re: [Amc-list] 62 Subframe/rust

[Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>]

No, you don't understand -- it's not like the 66 convert or your American at all! The whole rails literally run front to back, looks like someone welded the floor to a pair of full frame vehicle rails. The front subframe rails bend at about 45° at the base of the firewall outward, bend back to go under the doors, then bend back in about 18" in front of the rear wheel well to continue over the axle and back to the rear bumper. 

Starting with the 63 Classic/Ambo and 64 American, AMC went to the "three box" body building method that is now common. There's the engine compartment box, passenger box, and trunk box. The three are connected by extending the front and rear suspension mount rails partially under the passenger box and by crossmembers at the front and rear of the passenger box. The sides of all three "truss" the body together. Cut the body off at the base of the doors and the floor pan would probably fold up. That won't happen with the older body with the continuous rails. I think it was Chrysler touting that their next generation unit bodies would have bumper to bumper rails... I think it was for the current crop of big Chrysler cars (Magnum, 300, etc.). What's old is new again! 

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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:28:56 +0000
From: Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx

If it allready has those rails in it I would not bother either!
I knew the 65 conv has them and they put them back into the Americans somewhere around 68 to cut flex for the v-8 and meet new road/crash standards too IIRC.

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