1963 Rambler "Sugar" Resto-Track-Travel-AutoX-Mod

[Suzy-Homemaker]

Sugar is a 1963 Rambler American 220 Wagon.
I started out looking for a small wagon to build a pro-touring/Autocross car; I ended up with a numbers-matching, few-of-a-kind cutie.
Shug was rescued from a storage yard at a trailer park after sitting for about ten years mostly taken apart. The flat head six cylinder was sitting on a furniture dolley covered with the equivalent of a dry cleaner bag.
The guy selling the car was the second owner and had owned it since the early seventies - he seemed to really care about the car and know all the ins and outs.
As you can see, the body was mostly straight and rust appeared to be mostly superficial.


A few weeks later, we pushed Shug onto a trailer and hauled her home across the Bay.