For Sale 1962 Rambler Custom Classic CrossCountry Wagon 2nd. Owner - $8600 (Sebring)

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1962 Rambler Custom Classic CrossCountry Wagon 2nd. Owner

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For sale is my 1962 Rambler CrossCountry Custom station wagon. The car has 85,000 original miles on it and has been garage kept its entire life. Car has an inline six cylinder motor, automatic transmission with push buttons on the dash, manual steering and brakes. I bought the car from the original owner 26 years ago, that family bought it brand new and always kept it in the garage. When I got the car it had 71,000 miles on it. The car was very clean and rust free, the original paint was showing some age and the drivers seat bottom was worn. I drove the car for several years as it was. Eventually I I had the entire interior redone with original remanufactured materials. At that time I also had the car repainted, it has had only one repaint in its life. All external components of the engine have been replaced or rebuilt over the years. The transmission was fine but had a few leaks so that was removed and all seals replaced including a new torque converter and u-joints in the torque tube. All new shocks and complete exhausted. In the last 6 months the entire brake system was redone, this includes all new wheel cylinders, brake shoes, lines, and a new master cylinder. Also replaced within the last four months was the radiator. To keep it original I had the original radiator re- cord using the original tanks and went from a two row to a three row core to accommodate air conditioning in the future.
The engine has never been opened up for major repairs or rebuilds. That being said, the valve seals in the head are old and dry, this causes the engine to smoke at initial start up and when let sit at an idle for some time. The car runs and drives very well and is very reliable as is. This is a very nice original unmolested wagon that has never had rust.
If interested call me at 609-287-0202 The car is located at my home in Sebring Fl.
 
I love the old Rambler wagons. And this is a great example, right down to the period colors.
A friend in NC has a 57 tri tone wagon, 6Cyl, straight shift with factory overdrive and A/C.
I'd love to have it but he's proud of it, (it was his daddy's), and although it is not rusty and the original paints is still good it has been poorly stored and needs everything else.
 
I probably posted this for no other reason than my first car was a 62 Rambler Classic wagon. And when that crapped the bed, it was replaced by yet another 62 Rambler Classic wagon...
Learned how lethal replacing kingpins could be. Do not skimp on spring compressors!!
 
NOW that is a NICE Rambler wagon! I thought about it for about 20 seconds. it would look nice in the garage. but then I thought ... (WIFE) cold in Michigan cant sleep in the wagon...
 
NOW that is a NICE Rambler wagon! I thought about it for about 20 seconds. it would look nice in the garage. but then I thought ... (WIFE) cold in Michigan cant sleep in the wagon...
Ramblers had front seats that reclined to make a bed with the back seat. Keep the engine running and the vent windows cracked.
 
NOW that is a NICE Rambler wagon! I thought about it for about 20 seconds. it would look nice in the garage. but then I thought ... (WIFE) cold in Michigan cant sleep in the wagon...

You can't drive a house either.
 
Ive said that since I was 16, "You can live in a car but you cant drive a house"
 
Rambler wagons are cool. Been around them a lot when I was a kid. Rambler plant was on N. Richards Street in Milwaukee.

A man assembles a door for an American Motors car at AMC’s body plant on Richards St. in Milwaukee in 1981. The five-story factory, built just after World War I, eventually employed as many as 9,000 people before it was closed following Chrysler Corp.’s buyout of AMC in 1987.

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One of Milwaukee’s chief claims to motor-city status, the then-Nash auto body plant, looms over Richards St. just south of Capitol Drive on the north side in 1950. Capitol Drive cuts across the upper left corner of this photo. The plant, long since demolished, has been replaced by a Wal-mart, among other buildings.



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