Rambler Rebel

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The Rambler Rebel was an automobile produced by the American Motors Corporation (AMC) of Kenosha, Wisconsin from 1957-60, and again in 1966 and 1967.

When introduced in 1957, the Rambler Rebel debuted as a high-performance vehicle that mated AMC's light weight 108" wheelbase Rambler four-door hardtop body with AMC's 327 in³ engine, making it the first-time that a large block V8 was mated to a mid-size car in the postwar marketplace. The car was tested by Motor Trend, which found that a Rebel, equipped with fuel injection, was faster from a standing start than the 1957 Chevrolet Corvette. The announced fuel injection option did not materialize, however, and all of the production Rebels used a four-barrel carburetor. The car was available only in silver metallic accented with gold anodized aluminum inserts along the sides. For 1957, 1,500 Rambler Rebels were produced, many of which were returned to AMC dealers for repainting after several years of weather exposure caused premature breakdown of the lacquer paint. The Rebel is considered to be a precursor of the muscle cars that became so popular in the 1960s.

For 1958, the Rebel name returned, but rather than identifying a specialty model, the name was applied to all standard Ramblers powered by AMC's 250 cid V8. This lasted through the 1960 model year, after which all of the 108" wheelbase models took the Rambler Classic name.

The Rebel name reappeared in 1966 on a version of the Rambler Classic two-door hardtop with special interior trim and a revised roofline. For 1967, all of AMC's intermediates took the Rambler Rebel name. For 1968, the Rambler name was dropped and the car was named AMC Rebel.

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The Standard Catalogue of American Cars 1946-1975, John Gunnell, Editor. Kraus Publications, 1987. ISBN 0-87341-096-3

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	American Motors Corporation Historic:
Rambler:	Ambassador by Rambler \| American \| Classic \| Marlin \| Rambler \| Rebel
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American Motors road car timeline, United States market, 1954—1988 - edit
Type	1950s						1960s										1970s										1980s
	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Subcompact	Metropolitan																Gremlin									Spirit					Encore
Compact	Rambler American																Hornet								Concord
	J																					Pacer								Alliance
Mid-size	Rambler							Classic						Rebel				Matador
				Rebel								Marlin									Matador Coupe
Full-size	Nash				Ambassador																														P
	Hudson
Sports															AMX
															Javelin
Crossover																											Eagle
SUV																	see timeline of Jeep models

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	Nash Motors
	1916 - 1957 Historic:
	Nash:	\| 600 \| Airflyte \| Advanced Six \| Ambassador \| Nash-Healey \| La Fayette \| Metropolitan \| Rambler \| Rebel \| Statesman
	Affiliated:	\| Ajax \| American Motors \| Hudson \| Nash-Kelvinator \| Rambler (AMC)