“This is a hand engraved art car make offer for sale or trade 420 friendly. Runs needs minor stuff famous artist were involed here”
All this for only $1,000,000.
Hmm, I really can’t think of any famous Eugene-based artists offhand. Granted, the yellow Oregon plates only paint the car as a local since the late 70s. Ramble on!
Wrap it carefully I’ll take it
My father’s parents had one of these wagons (granted it was not rolling art!)…
One Million Dollars??? lol 420 overdose more likely!
He might get that at a Pebble Beach auction, but not on craigslist!
lol
This is the very rare Rambler Grecian 2000 a small batch which were specially painted for export to Greece.
And the new austerity measures mean one had to come back
haha! COTD, bryce.
+1
420 friendly? Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Too pricey indeed, but I do think this car looks awesome! I never realized until recently that in Oregon the license plates stay with the vehicle when the vehicle gets a new owner. The same thing is done in California, I wonder which state came up with that idea first?
I don’t know who thought of it first but it is standard practice in most states. I know that it has been that way in Kentucky since before I started driving in 1967. The only state I know of that doesn’t do this is Indiana; here the plate stays with the owner and can end up being used on multiple cars. The plate in Kentucky is not “permanent” as it gets replaced every five years or so.
Actually it’s standard practice for plates to stay with the owner, not the car. I live in Ohio and when you buy a car you either transfer older plates or get new plates upon registering said vehicle. I would have to say that at least 3/4 of the States issues plates that way.
Ditto for Wisconsin.
Likewise Virginia and Pennsylvania
Same for Massachusetts. Plates are assigned to the owner, not the car. An owner can transfer plates from one car to another, but the plates never go with a car when it is sold. If you sell a car and do not have another vehicle at hand to immediately transfer the plates to (e.g, you are not replacing the old vehicle, you chose to take out a brand new registration for your new vehicle), the plates are simply taken out of circulation.
An old-style Mass. green-on-white plate is indicative of how long the registration has been active continuously with no interruptions, not how long that car has been registered in the state. You can find brand new cars with green-on-white plates.
Let me pre-qualify by saying I haven’t been back to Delaware since the early eighties, so things may have changed. Plates stay with the car in Delaware. They have inspections, but no inspection stickers; if it fails, you cannot renew your tag. It seemed tags generally were as old as the car. Newer tags were blue background with yellow numerals and an outline, older were likewise without the outline and fewer numerals. The really old plates with black backgrounds and white numerals were square and could be retained by the person. They could be sold or traded for a couple thousand dollars as they were status symbols and signified you were “Old Delaware”. The lower the number, the more valuable. An engineer that worked next door to me had number “52”. Very cool.
Tasty find, Mike. “420 friendly”: does that mean it’s been converted to run on cana-oil? Bet the exhaust smells good.
If it runs on canna-oil, you better have deep pockets….. Perhaps that explains the price tag?
And the most amazing thing is how this Million Dollar Rambler isn’t even going through Barrett Jackson. Or is this just a negotiating strategy – “If I start at $1 million, I can dicker down to $1500.”
Dude – a million dollar car should be kept in a garage.
The garage is full of… uh…. tomato plants. Yeah, that’s what’s in there.
I like the shape of these Rambler wagons, and although I’m not usually a fan of art cars, it actually seems to work on this. Off-beat art for an off-beat car maybe?
The line”famous artist were involed here” begs the question of how do you turn an artis into a small burrowing rodent?
1962. The car I first soloed. It was an Ambassador, though, not a Classic.
The hood gives me an uncontrollable urge…to play Scrabble.
For that kind of money, it better have the push-button flash-o-matic. I ain’t payin’ a million bucks for a car with three-on-the-tree.
And thank you for continuing our fine tradition of well-written 1962 Rambler articles by guys named Mike.
Nice Price or Giant Doobie!
I thought it said $1,000.00 and decided I might buy it just to sand off all that doodling and repaint it white. Then I read the comments and went “oh, that’s a million”
Even I, notoriously sympathetic to unloved old cars cannot dredge up a million dollars of sympathy.
Why not a billion?