The 2012 season will open with a brand new building to house the Nash Kelvinator Appliances.

This past September and October Body Photage had  its Mile High Sport Magazine December photo shoot at the ranch,  25 beautiful ladies came out to pose with Terry’s car collection in hopes of being the December issues cover girl. Pick up your copy of Mile High Sport Magazine on Dec 6th at you local retailer.

12 large wild turkey’s decided to visit the Ranch this thanksgiving week, word must have got around that it was safe here.

The Briarcliff and Westerner have arrived! This fulfills a long time dream of Terry’s to have nice examples of all three of the regional wagons. These RARE regional wagons will grace the AMC building next season, being the only know examples of all three together.With only 400 Briarcliff, 500 Westerners and 600 Mariners ever made these wagons are another great example of AMC’s great styling. The Mainer Terry owns not shown here is the only know example to have its original sleek white wood grain siding.

The Ranch get’s a new 1970 Big Bad Green Rebel SST 2 door HT 6 cyl 3 speed.
In 1970, the sedan and coupe received a restyled rear-end, along with a new C-pillar shape and rear quarters, as well as a more massive rear end and bumper. The hardtop was changed to a more sloping roof line with up swept reverse-angle quarter windows, giving them “a somewhat huskier look for 1970″.[19] The taillights were integrated into a new loop rear bumper with Rebel spelled out between them. The four-door sedans also had an altered roof line with a slimmer C-pillar and larger, squared-off rear door windows. Similarly as on the coupe, the belt line kicked up beneath the trailing edge of the rear door windows, and then tapered back to the same rear fascia as on the hardtop. The Rebel station wagons saw no change to their roof-lines, doors, and rear fascias. The grille was again revised with a horizontal spit in the middle and the name, Rebel, was spelled out on the left lip of the hood. The exterior trim, colors, and model identification locations were also modified for 1970. Rebels were available in base or SST trim. The effect of the changes was summarized by the Auto Editor of Popular Mechanics, “the Rebel has a ‘no nonsense’ air about it I find appealing.[20]

A major change was to the available V8 engines. The standard 290 cu in (4.8 L) V8 was replaced for 1970 by a new 304 cu in (5.0 L) while the 343 cu in (5.6 L) was also supplanted by a 360 cu in (5.9 L). The “AMX” 390 cu in (6.4 L) was optional on SST models, while a special high-performance 340 hp (254 kW) version was standard on The Machine.

The 1970 restyle lasted only one year before a further restyle and renaming the models as the AMC Matador. The four-door and wagon platform would remain unchanged until the retirement of the Matador line after the 1978 model year.info compliment of From Wikipedia

The ranch is now offering local made Ice Cream from Rose’s Creamery and wow is it the best. There is nothing like a cold home made cone on a hot summer day.

The Mile High Prowlers, stopped by today to see the ranch  and brought some incredible cars. Here is a photo of some of these beautiful automobiles.

Design

The design of the Prowler was said to have been inspired after Chrysler engineers were given free rein to create whatever they wanted in a “hot rod” or “sportster” type vehicle. One of the most striking design features of the Prowler are the open, Indy racer style front wheels.

Although he is officially uncredited, car designer Chip Foose’s Chrysler sponsored senior project car at Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design, which he dubbed the Hemisfear, evolved into the Prowler.^[1]

The Prowler featured a powertrain lifted from Chrysler’s LH-cars, a 3.5 L SOHC Chrysler SOHC V6 engine 24v producing 214 hp (160 kW; 217 PS) at 5850 rpm. For the 1999 model year the engine was replaced with a more powerful 253 hp (189 kW; 257 PS) at 6400 rpm version of the engine. Both engines were coupled to a 4-speed Autostick automatic transmission. The transmission was located at the rear of the vehicle and joined to the engine by a flexible driveshaft that rotated at engine speed, an arrangement similar to that used by the C5 Corvette, Porsche 944 and Alfa Romeo 75, and helped to facilitate a desirable 50-50 front-rear weight distribution. The Prowler was the first rear-wheel drive Plymouth since the 1989 Plymouth Gran Fury. While criticized for featuring a V6 only, Chrysler’s High Output 3.5 had a horsepower rating similar to (or higher than) the company’s magnum V8s of that era. While not making nearly as much torque as a V8, Prowler’s light weight translated into very impressive performance figures, including off-the-line acceleration.

The car prominently featured aluminum in its construction, chiefly in the chassis. In many cases, the components were adhesively bonded. The body was produced in Shadyside, Ohio, and the car was assembled by hand at the Conner Avenue Assembly Plant (CAAP) in Detroit, Michigan.

Information taken from Wikipedia.com