One-Off Quiz #25 -Finished

[carsntrucks4you]

In 1962 the independent metal fabricator Budd Company approaches American Motors Cooperation with a car for a new segment. Budd used any idea that they had presented to Ford a two seater T-Bird based on the Ford Falcon. But Ford didn't want it. So the modified a Rambler Ambassador  into a two seater roadster the Budd XR-400.  It is powered by 327 AMC V8 and could have been the AMC Mustang that never was. 

There were several reasons why AMC did jump into a ne market segment.

• American Motors’ President George W. Romney, who cemented the company as a maker of compact cars, left the company in February 1962 to run for governor of Michigan.
• The new model had very little interior room to compete successfully against other sporty compact cars such as the Chevrolet Corvair Monza and the Pontiac Tempest Le Mans.
• American Motors was developing entirely new models for 1963 and this was a major capital drain. Entering a completely new market segment with an unproven car could be a costly gamble.
• The company was itself working on a new compact fastback concept car called the Rambler Tarpon using the soon to be introduced third-generation Rambler American platform.

SO Budd did some minor changes on the car and it was sold later to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.

 

The correct answer were sent by the following mebers:

gbtr6

Bucky

Ricahrd Bartrop

Ace-Garageguy

thatz4u

otherunicorn

jokar124

 

Congratulations

 

Edited July 31, 2022 by carsntrucks4you

[ChrisR]

No idea!!

[Richard Bartrop]

Piece of cake.  PM sent.

[Ace-Garageguy]

[otherunicorn]

Finally my google searching found the car.... on this site...  Yes. It found this page.

 

Edited July 28, 2022 by otherunicorn

[carsntrucks4you]

Let me give you a hint. The company was an independent metal fabricator known as major supplier for body components. They had build a similar concept before the one in this quiz for one of the Big Three. But like this car, it doesn't attracts the management. The trunk lid featured the name of a subsidiary of  the company which doesn't belongs to the Big Three. The name plate is today missing and it is in museum of the one of the Big Three.

Thats too much I'll stop here.

 

Edited July 29, 2022 by carsntrucks4you

[Bucky]

I think it's a nice looking little car.