Like the title says this is at least in my opinion one of the rarer or rarest of the Muscle Cars that was built way back in the day 😕

A long time ago (OK the late 80’s) I was told by a friend that he found a guy one town over that had 4 Rarest Muscle Car AMC SC/Rambler in various states of completion. The prices weren’t that bad but I had no cash when I needed it so I missed out on what could have been one of the cooler of the rare Muscle Cars out there!

1969 AMC Hurst SC/Rambler had 315-hp 390-cid four-barrel. A Borg-Warner four-speed with a Hurst shifter and a 3.54:1 limited-slip completed the drivetrain. Heavy-duty shocks, anti-sway bar, and anti-hop rear links fortified the suspension. E70Xl4 Polyglas tires and the AMC’s optional heavy-duty brakes with front discs were included. Inside were reclining buckets. Instrumentation was standard Rogue with the exception of a Sun 8000-rpm tach strapped to the steering column.

The car debuted midway through the model year as the AMC SC/Rambler-Hurst; most called it the Scrambler. Only 1,512 were built, and they were potent little screamers. But that exterior treatment! No one seemed to like it. A “tri-colored nickelodeon,” said Car and Driver.

All SC/Ramblers started as appliance-white hardtops with two-tone mags, racing mirrors, blackout grille and tail panel, Hurst badging, and a real ram-air hood scoop with an upthrust snout that unfortunately recalled the nose of a hound sniffing for the scent. About 1,200 Scramblers went full “Yankee Doodle,” with broad red bodysides, wild hood graphics, and a fat blue dorsal stripe. The rest made do with only simple rocker-panel striping.
With ETs in the low to mid-l4s, however, some unwary rivals wouldn’t have to look at the whole car. “This sort of acceleration,” said Road Test, “is going to show the Hurst emblem on the back to a few GTOs, Cobra Jets, Road Runners, and Mach 1s.”

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