![]() All of the new bits, including the floor, were fabricated in-house by Cross including a full rollcage NHRA certified to 7.50s–you, know…street car stuff. “It’s a complete tube chassis built by Dennis,” said Maisano. The team working on the Rambler, which consisted of Maisano, Tedro, and Dennis Cross, cut into the car, ditching pretty much everything but the sheet metal. “You could call it an all-out, killer, modernized Pro Street Car,” said Maisano. In fact, it’s a little bit of everything–but most importantly, it’s fast. The theme for the Rambler wasn’t as cut and dry as previous projects. Every year we build three or four cars for the MCACN show. ![]() “It was all rusty, so we said ‘if we’re gonna do something with this, let’s really do something. “Scott bought the car on eBay for like $5,000,” said Maisano. Maisano’s garage, featured in a previous This Guy’s Garage segment, actually had the Rambler in it, although long before they started turning wrenches on the car. In fact, this isn’t the first creation out of the Costa Mesa shop to attract Car Craft’s attention, nor is it the first time this car has graced these pages. Scramblers, a moniker they’ve absorbed over the decades, aren’t your usual swap meet fare, but Ken Maisano and business partner, Scott Tedro, the duo behind MASCAR Classics, have a penchant for finding and building rare rides. Really, it’s a shame there weren’t more of them. For the today-unimaginable price of roughly $3,000, buyers were rewarded with a stripper model capable of low 14s and the perfect look-at-me paint scheme to bait in unsuspecting stop-light prey. ![]() While the 1,512 units that AMC put on pavement weren’t going to turn the tide of the muscle car war, they certainly left some Ford, Chevy, and Dodge owners with bruised and battered egos. It was an unexpected jaw-punch, dealt by Detroit’s number four automaker. The 1969 Hurst SC/ Rambler was a scrappy car.
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