After a Thursday night of wrenching, a shopping list of things I needed, and a vacation day in front of me, I decided to make a trip tor one of the u-pull-it yards.

I didn’t have much faith that there would be any AMCs from the 60’s.  I expected most have met the crusher, or been stripped to the bone, but a day not working, wandering around a scrapyard, is a good day.

Initially I was disappointed, I was looking for a carb spacer that I haven’t been able to find for sale anywhere.  It must be made of unobtanium.

There were surprisingly few AMCs. I must be getting old, but I expected to find some AMC eagles, or hornets floating around but the pickings were slim.  Wandering around the “old car” section all of the sudden I looked up and there she was, a 1965 Rambler 660 Classic, 

It must be divine intervention.  The inspection sticker on the windshield was from 1985, but it looked like it had been recently dropped off in the yard.  It hadn’t been stripped bare yet.  The interior was surprisingly complete (except for the completely rotted out floor).

I couldn’t get the hood open.  This was a good sign since it meant that maybe the allusive carb spacer was under there.  After some tugging and some work with a 1/4 inch socket I was able to get it open.  I think I heard angels singing when the crusty hood revealed what was hiding underneath it.  Maybe it wasn’t angels, it might have been an allergic reaction to all of the iron oxide.  Under the hood was an untouched 199 or 232 6 cylinder engine sitting in a Rambler.  There was lots of parts I needed to resurrect my ’63 wagon.  After stripping off everything I thought I needed, I was back home with a nice pile of parts.  A radiator with the mounting brackets on the correct side.  An electric windshield wiper motor, if my vacuum wiper doesn’t work.  An air cleaner housing, holly carb, carb linkage, steel heater hose line, kickdown bracket, inside door handles, some firecrackers, and the infamous carb spacer!