part ID please

[thatz4u]

May be JoHan, not sure

[mike 51]

some sort of AMC-Rambler?  

[ChrisBcritter]

Rambler Marlin, most likely.

[OldTrucker]

The looks to be the chassis from the Rebel Machine from Johan!

 

[THarrison351]

I think your both correct.

[Deuces]

  On 11/7/2018 at 2:42 AM, OldTrucker said:

The looks to be the chassis from the Rebel Machine from Johan!

 

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With single exhaust?... I don't know, I never had a Johan kit....

[Bucky]

  On 11/7/2018 at 4:39 AM, Deuces said:

With single exhaust?... I don't know, I never had a Johan kit....

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The following pic came from a blog about a Jo-Han Rebel buildup:

I didn't know the Rebel kit had single exhaust, either.

[Deuces]

Strange.... Oh, well...

[Don Sikora II]

Based on the plastic color it’s probably from a USA Oldies ‘66 Marlin. The same basic chassis with wheelbase changes was used in Jo-Han Ambassadors and Rebels too. 

[gman]

I can agree. The torque tube rear end is a give-away to its 60's AMC origins.

[disabled modeler]

Might be a Johan 69 AMX kit chassis..???

[W-409]

Yes, as some guys already said, it is from Jo-Han '66 AMC Marlin. I checked with my other Jo-Han AMC kits, and it can't be from AMC Javelin or AMX.

[Greg Myers]

reminds me of the cheezy "promo style" chassis AMT has given us all these years in their otherwise great '66 Mustang kit.

[Ace-Garageguy]

A big thanks from me to the OP; prior to this, I did not know that some AMC platforms were still using torque-tube drivelines well into the '60s.

I have relatively little hands-on experience with anything AMC, and this new piece of info is fascinating.

Now, down the internet rabbit-hole to get the rest of the story.

Like I've said a bazillion times before, one of the things I like best about model cars is the opportunity to learn more about real ones. 

[dimaxion]

The torque tube type rear axle is what was under my '70 Javelin SST IIRC .  It was my only car I owned without Hotchiss driveline . This could be a Promo Classic , Ambassador Chassis .  Thanx .. 

[Mark]

That piece is correct for the Marlin (and other '63-'66 Ramblers).  The 1:1 '67-up larger cars (Rebel, Ambassador) ditched the torque tube.  Jo-Han did tool a correct chassis for some of the promotional models (the rest used a flat chassis plate with no detail at all). 

Why they didn't update the kits with the improved chassis is a mystery.  They did the same (updated promos but not kits) with the '69-'70 GTX also.