1965 rambler marlin in depth look
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- In depth look at a 1965 rambler marlin. Brief history of the Marlin we go through interior and exterior as well as all handles switches and knobs. Thank you so much in advance for watching =)
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I just wanna say this was very well done. My late great Brother had a '65 Red & Black with a three speed automatic with bucket seats and the 327 engine. The good old days!
Awesome glad you dig this episode I want to drive one of these cars so bad I think that 327 V8 is one of the most underrated cars engines of all time.. I believe it came out in 57 and it would run circles around just about anything.. in 57 =)
Thanks. Naming cars after fish was au courant in 1965, vide the Plymouth Barracuda. The Marlin was a good, well made car but it did suffer in the marketplace after a fairly hot start in 1965. The styling was controversial even among AMC stylists. Some of that owed to the insistence of Roy Abernethy, the company President, who wanted the car on the larger Classic and insisted on raising the roof over the back seat which made the fastback less attractive.
In my opinion the Marlin failed to sell as well as hoped because AMC already had American, Classic, and Ambassador hardtops and convertibles on the showroom floors. The Marlin was a Classic variant with an Ambassador interior. Its market placement was, thus, ambiguous.
Dodge learned that big fastbacks are a hard sell with the Charger. They sold better than the Marlin, but Dodge went to a more conventional design with a notchback roof and trunk after a short run with the fast roof. Buyers' tastes are often fickle so it isn't possible to do more than consider styling ideas generally. It is often amusing to me to see what some folks consider good styling and what they reject.
This we know, and thank you for saying it, Dick Teague was one of the best in leading a styling team. He gave us the Packard Caribbean , the Javelin, and the AMX/3. His reputation is secure.
True the barracuda sort of failed too tried to keep it alive by just calling it cuda... Dick Teague is right up there with Virgil exner and bill Mitchell Harley earl all great automotive designers.
Yes, a similar Barracuda fastback design.
One of the prettiest cars ever made. Oh and heck yeah I would want to drive a car named after a fish! I want to drive that one and I sure as heck want to drive a Barracuda!
I totally agree I think these look better than the chargers.. I was disappointed I didn’t get to drive it. Guy wanted $12,500 for it which is like all the money for one and had issues.. run off of a portable gas tank. Interior was nice a few imperfections. Needed 4 new tires... maybe I’ll find a 67 to review in the summer
Yup these are cool cars I had a 1966 with a 327 v8 and a 4 speed back in the 80s. It went pretty good for what it was.
I always loved the styling I like the under dog and amc was the under dog.
Uncle had a 67 Marlin with a 290 borg warner auto. He drove till it rusted out. Then he bought a J body early 90's caviler z28.
Found out about these kinda late in life but the styling just grabs me. I’m looking into another car after my 69 mustang is done and it’s made the list though there’s a 63 T Bird near me that has everything and is already restored. Anyways thanks for all the the content. I’ll be ambling through all your vids no and then.
I love the marlin would like to do a comparison one day and would love to know what it’s like to drive
Such a beautiful car
Id love to have one, one day
@@What.its.like. me too
Love those cars I have one 65 red and black high back bucket seats went up the Shawnee Pennsylvania to pick it up with my stepfather's first new car have the original bill of sale didn't I restored it 32 years ago it needs some TLC
I love the fact that the seats car fold into a bed which is a really neat feature
Great video. 12.5 is high for that particular fish. I want one of these myself. 8 grand is doable but they aren't all that common. If you're into Rambler Classics, which is basically the same car without a fastback, you can find them for under 7 on Craigslist (if you are on there every week.)
Well, Ed Arcuri and Icebox beat me to some of my comments. I remember when AMC announced the Marlin. There was a LOT of buzz. It was a 5-6 passenger fastback, which no other manufacturer had. Still seems like a good idea to me, but it just didn’t sell. Clearly it was a Rambler with a different roofline, but the same could be said about Valiant/Barracuda and Satellite/Charger. AMC just couldn’t catch a break. There were rumors of AMC going out of business, but that didn’t happen for another 20+ years. I knew people who had AMC cars and they seemed every bit as good as the Big 3. When you sat in the back seat it was noticeable that you had headroom. The roofline DID seem slightly odd back then, but just as we could see, it provided more room. So a family man could buy a Marlin, have fastback style, and still have room for adults. It might be helpful if you dig up some road test info from Motor Trend, Car & Driver, Popular Science/Mechanics, Consumer Reports, etc and add that.
Thank you so much for that added information
Yeah this was an older video wasn’t sure how to format episodes getting closer to what I want and how I’d like to present episodes, I just started adding bits from automotive critics if I can find any footage of the car is driving I’m going to start including that as well as some commercials if the footage is available some cars didn’t seem like they ever got a commercial or anything, testing is spotty at best but yeah thank you for the tips =)
@@What.its.like. , You’re doing fine. I guessed this was an early video. Don’t rush yourself, gather info and make a checklist of what you want/have before you make the video. Set a schedule if you want, but don’t feel forced. Part of your value is your perspective. And thanks for no music 🙉, except in a brief clip relating to the time frame
Thank you =)
a great car!
Yeah it was I need to find another one to do format is different now then it was then
It's pronounced "TAR-p'n", not "Tampon" or Tar-pawn. The pattern of circles on the dashboard insert is called "engine turning".
i think the name is sick!
=)
jay, I had to come back to this .believe it or not chevy almost bad a fastback to precede the marlin and charger by 1 year . Look up huston platt 427 63 chevy II .Apparently bill mitchell made 4 prototype models for chevy. By the way alot of cars were named after fish like, barracuda ,mako shark, stingray, all around that time so marlin wasnt too far out there
Great information I think I’m going to cover another 65 Marlin format has changed a lot since that video
I have 3.. (2) 327 V8 automatics with console and (1) twin stick
That’s awesome just curious how does twin stick work is that like a two speed rear end set up.. i’m a huge Marlin fan I’ve never seen a 67 person
@jr42al: With the 327 V8s the cars must have given very impressive performance with either a 2 barrel or a 4 barrel carburetor.
I like fish.
The Stingray and Barracuda are fishes.
That’s true
Sting ray is a ray
@@What.its.like. just so you know, I enjoy your channel.
That’s awesome it took 6 months to get a little traction but cool stuff coming top three cars I’m going to try like hell to do 60s ampicar 48 tucker Chrysler turbine car other channels keep their content under wraps but I want people to be excited like me.. the turbine car will be the hardest the Henry ford has one worst they will say is no...
Toronado is reminding us of a severe storm.
2:52 I had a Barracuda, and it being named after a fish never bothered me in the slightest.
I'm looking at a 65 white with black interior
That’s awesome what engines in it I love marlins
@@What.its.like. idk yet I didn't know where the hood latch was, it has v8 badges, I'm hoping for the 327 4bbl
That puppy needs some work - good vid. Thanks.
I was so disappointed when I went to shoot that I wanted to drive it, it was for sale he was asking top dollar for so I thought it would be drivable because it said it was in the ad. It ran off a gas can couldn’t drive it that way interior was nice but the rest of the car was a 20 footer needed painted and rust repair all the trim was pitted it needed a lot and something is up with the engine tires all dry rotted just, just was really disappointed
@@What.its.like. Thanks for the mention of Dick Teague
They didn't make too many of those.
The coolest thing about this car is the fold down seat into a twin size bed feature I did not know this car did that.
@@What.its.like. I second that.
Why name a car after a fish... Well, the car was clearly meant to compete with the Plymouth Barracuda introduced the previous year. Sure, Dodge may have borrowed from the Marlin's styling, but the Marlin seems to have borrowed from the Barracuda first!
We will be doing a new Marlin episode today I think it’s far better than that one it’s a 67 to boot, like I said we’ve come along way in a short time lol
GM had fastback designs in the 1940s. Harley Earl was GM designer for a while.
Yes and they were absolutely stunning, just talking about the body shape. Mustang has a fastback design and looks nothing like the marlin and charger
That style started way before the Marlin. Just peruse any of the late forties/early fifties GM Chevy/Buick/Oldsmobile/Cadillac series and you'll see they each had a slant-back model in their line-up.
That’s true it started there and got reinvented, or reiterated
mako shark, stingray are fish!
Very true
Stingrays and Barracudas are fish...
That’s true =)
Its a very awkward looking car...too short and compact in the nose for such a powerful curved rear end. I can see why it failed to sell in the 60's compared to the elegant long nose cars.
One can definitely see the resemblance after looking at the Marlin and then looking at the Dodge charger
But it IS a boat. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
How much did he want for it.
$12,000 which is all the money for those cars... I was a little disappointed because we couldn’t drive it all the tires were dry rotted and ran off of a gas can not the gas tank in the car.
@@What.its.like. it’s a shame that a car in that shape has been left sitting paint is great interior isn’t sunbaked into nothing and the car isn’t rusted in half.