1957 Rambler Rebel

The Rambler Rebel was born in 1957,from the AMC motor company.This car was AMC's bid to get a larger share of the car market which was dominated by Ford, Chevrolet, and Plymouth.Inded the Rambler aimed to become the saviour of the struggling company.
The 1956 model as from the beginning in 1950 produced only six-cylinder models. Meanwhile, both Chevy and Ply­mouth began offering V-8s in 1955 -- and they were selling at a surprisingly good rate. Ford, of course, had offered a V-8 for almost 25 years.So to compete against the rivals a V-8 was developed for the 1957 model.
The basic price starting at $2,253 for a Super four-door sedan, the Rambler V-8 offered very good value,this also came with standard dual exhausts which increased the Rambler's power. In addition, because it was designed around a unitized body/chassis rather than an old-fashioned body on frame, the Rambler weighed significantly less than the others, providing a more favorable pounds-per-horsepower ratio.

The Chyrsler 300 series circa 1955

The Chrysler 300 series were high-performance luxury cars built in very limited numbers by Chrysler 1955 and 1965. Each year's model used a new letter of the alphabet as a suffix (skipping "i"), reaching 300L by 1965, after which the model was dropped.
These cars were the vehicles that really rekindled interest in performance among major American manufacturers after World War II, and thus can be considered the muscle car's ancestors.
Chrysler has recently started using these designations again for sporting near-luxury sedans,from 1999 ,unlike the first series, the second does not have 300 hp engines, except for today's top-line 300C.

Dave Burton
www.bargain-motors.com