I can’t pretend to know much about AMC products in the early days, just after Nash and Hudson were shuttered. With popular opinion of those two brands in the toilet, George Romney did the mercy killing and the car that would have become the Nash Ambassador became the Rambler Ambassador instead. For it’s time, the Ambassador was actually a pretty hot runner, packing a 327ci V8 and light weight. But those are sixty-year-old statistics…what is this thing doing up on a four-wheel drive frame, who cleaned up the paint work, and why does it still exist?
Someone had to be sick enough to take one look at the Ambassador body, one look at a 2000 GMC Jimmy, and think to themselves, “You know what would be amazing?” We will give credit where it is due…the execution is about as flawless as you could possibly get. The four-wheel drive works, the air conditioning works, and it should drive just like any S-truck would. It will just look like the 1950s came rolling right back into your driveway in full force.
I don’t hate it. Though for 18,500 I would need a lot of whatever he took to think that was a good idea to think it that good.