Hi, If you like this video, please click on SUPER THANKS ❤ with the $ in the middle which is the SUPER THANKS button under the video. Thank you! Lou

Wow! Love Marlins! Love AMC in general. Thanks for posting, Lou. 👍👍👍

Filled to the gills with goodness, Mr. King has the perfect Marlin for smooth cruising with plenty of style. What a great Survivor. Thanks, Lou!

What a find! That fastback was pretty radical for '65.

Love that car

Lou, I always appreciate your appreciation for AMC's. This original Marlin is astounding. 18k, man... The styling?...well, no question - Dick Teague sure took chances. AMC certainly could compete with their interior decor and quality. Really good feature Lou, thx!

Nice catch 🎣 Lou. Kevin reely reeled in a winner 😉

I remember seeing these on the road as a kid. Thought they were awesome then and seeing this one is just amazing. Glorious survivor. Is history is really wonderful. WOW Lou. Congratulations to the owner for his good fortune on this car. Great.

Very nice Marlin! These are almost forgotten but are real icons of the era. I always thought that they had a clean look and might have been a bit before their time. Thanks Lou and Kevin for letting us have a look!

What a beautiful ride. Mr. King definitely has something to be proud of. Thank you both for sharing it with us. 👏👌👍

AMC had such cool little details back in the '60's, especially in the interior. As you found out Lou, Gen 1 AMC V-8's were fantastic street engines. They were overbuilt so therefore very heavy, and the heads held them back as far as flow so they didn't achieve much racing sucess. But the marine industry picked up on this and put the 287/327's in boats. You couldn't kill those engines and were perfect for the marine rpm range. AMC got the Marlin right in '67, but of course that was the end of the road. Pity. Lou, have you ever featured a '67 343 4-speed Marlin? That's one car I wouldn't mind owning. Great video Lou, I love the AMC's!!

In that ocean of muscle cars, the Barracuda was the little fish but the Marlin was the big fish.

Wow What A Treat To See A 65 MARLIN And In One Color Of White. Most Came In Two Tone, Thanks LOU For Showing It

Got to check it out ❤. Love my 64 990. Ramblers rule.

With such low mileage, this Marlin could be one of the lowest out there as far as being driven - and it shows. Great unmolested classic from the 60s. Thanks gentlemen, this was great!

Класне авто! Цікава історія придбання авто! Дякую!

My father was the service manager for the Rambler dealer from 1962 to 1965. We had many new Ramblers during those years.😊

My dream ride. He's so fortunate to find it. What a beauty!

Can't beat that 1965 still a new car it's amazing only 18k on it and kept it clean all these years

Wow you're more likely to win the Powerball than find that beauty.

Always loved automobile seafood in the Marlin! What a great catch of the day.

Wow. Mr King caught a prize fishing for this marlin. Thx Lou

I love those cars... Wasn't it really the first muscle car in '63? I've tried to get 2 of them, both white. One was in Walkertowm NC that disappeared while I was trying to contact the owner and the other one was in Hollywood Florida and needed restoration. The second one I tried to get ended up going to scrap 😡

What a great catch Lou. Conservative in front and muscle in back 😎

Wow, I didn't realize just how cool a car the Marlin was till this video. Our Parish Priest had one of these it was the second Rambler that I knew of he owned. I never saw it up close. Interesting thing about AMC cars. It started as Nash was the brand and manufacturer name, and Rambler was the model name. After the merger of Nash and a few others into AMC Nash, was dropped as a brand name, and Rambler became the brand. The models were American, Marlin, and later Matador. Then, by 68, give or take a year, the Rambler brand name was dropped, and American was both the brand and manufacturer name. By the 80s, Eagle was one of the American brand names. Then Chrysler bought the company and Eagle became the brand name with model names, Vision and Talon. The Eagle brand just didn't sell though, the Talon did the best, but it basically was a rebadged Plymouth Lazer and Mitsubishi Eclipse. All three were the same car, but the propaganda floating around was that the Mitsubishi was a better car. Chrysler dropped the Lazer to try to boost the Talon sales, but again the public perception that Mitsubishi was the better car, even though they were the same car, kept sales low and the Chrysler-Mitsubishi partnership ended along with the Eagle brand, making the only AMC vehicle left in the Chrysler family was the Jeep! If I were a Collector, the Marlin would be on my radar as a car to add to my collection.

Beautiful , The beginning of the fast back cars,

Great show Lou. When I was 12 years old I had a daily and Sunday paper rout. Yes, I worked 7 days a week for 4 years. LOL. Anyway my boss bought a 66 Marlin and we all loved that car. Thanks for the memories Lou.

Lovely....Big fish...

10,327 '65 Marlins built, goes well with the displacement. Wonder how many are left. Thanks to you both.

🤗 GREAT LOU,THAT KEVIN AND JUNE WERE ABLE TO LAND THIS BIG FISH 🐠 AND IT IS A GREAT SURVIVOR 😎…and as a15 yr. Old one ☝️ of my dream 💭 cars,along with the CHARGER AND MUSTANG 😁💚💚💚

Thanks for posting. When I was a kid, a friend's parents bought a red '65 with black on the trunk and window surrounds. I don't think I've ever seen a Marlin without a two-tone treatment. If that's original, it makes it VERY rare! Nice find!

Great looking car! The Marlin always reminded me of the '65-'66 Dodge Chargers with the long fastback and big rear window. AMC was such a quirky company. Some of their cars were really cool, like the Marlin, the Javelin and the AMX, but then they had the Matador, the Gremlin and the Pacer. I guess they were not afraid to take risks, but they also no longer exist.

For those who think the Rambler was first introduced by Nash in the early 50's, Rambler was the brand name originally in the very early 1900's, and it was Rambler that created the steering wheel instead of using the steering tiller that was in use at the time. Rambler was started by a father and son partnership by the name of Jeffery, and when the father died the son renamed the company Jeffery in his fathers honor un 1915 and sold the company in 1917 to Mr. Nash who changed the company name back to Rambler in 1918, and years later renamed it again when the name was changed to Nash. The Rambler name was again dropped but returned in the early 1950's as a model name which became the brand name again when the Nash name was dropped and remained until the Rambler name was dropped in 1969.

Wow! I can’t remember the last time I saw one of these neat fishes. When I was young, one of the cars I had was a 1959 Rambler Rebel with a 287 V8, stick and overdrive. It had been rebuilt incorrectly and spun some rod bearings. Ended up getting a 1960 Chevy with a six and powerglide. Those were the days.

Remember these well and this is a nice one thanks Lou.

GREAT CATCH !!!

Very different - looking ! The AMC 327 engine debuted in a special edition 1957 Rambler Rebel, of which 1,500 were made.

It’s so weird it’s beautiful 😍

I had 2 1964 Rambler Ambassador 990H with the 327 motor. The second one had automatic on the floor. A lot of cars were surprised when all they saw was tail lights. This car was completely stock

Beautiful Marlin! I love the styling cues that Dick Teague used in his AMC designs. On this one, the fastback/boat tail rear end had to be a nod towards Mitchell's Corvette Stingray. The slotted tail lamps seemed to have gotten their cue from the 64 Pontiac GTO. The engine turned aluminum dash parts borrowed from the 63 Impala SS. And that Marlin logo; to me it looks like MLB borrowed that design for the inaugural Miami Marlin's team logo. The thing I believe holds back this design is using the Rambler front end. But understandable taken into how financially constrained AMC was to do something different. Thanks, Lou!

I'm very surprised to see a hole in the deck lid, under the Marlin badge!! It almost makes me wonder if they had their eyes on NASCAR competition - probably not. The guard-covers over the insides of the tail lights, in the trunk, is very intelligent! Think that might be a Ford windshield washer pump assembly - my '68 Cougar had that. These preceded the Charger to market by more time than the Barracuda preceded the Mustang.

Lovely vehicle...........

My father's last car was a 1965 Rambler Classic. I loved washing it, and detailing the interior. I think he paid $500 for it, and it was his daily driver.

OMG, I love this car ❤

That is nice. Not sure how many of these are still around either.

Very nice !

No miles??!!...That's an interesting car! Growing up, we had a rambler station wagon.

Neat car! People have to realize that this was way out there styling wise for AMC at the time. Prototype pics got leaked to Dodge and they came up with their own version which is fairly close on the original Charger, but that car was a true 2+2, whereas the Marlin was not. I love the way the rear quarter glass not only rolls down, but cants to the rear as it does so. Also, reclining drivers seats were an AMC perk that few other cars at the time offered. Magazine testers of the time were kinda hard on AMC for not making it a performance car, stating that it had the styling which was unique but had clumsy handling and not much power even from the top engine offering. But this is a cruiser built to eat up miles, not a quarter mile blaster. Finally, the owner was correct in moving that mirror. Rearward and blindspot visibility was horrible in these cars, something the mag writers of the time were quick to point out. They also bashed the trunk lid as an oversized glove box opening, though admitted the inside space itself was rather large. 1 writer was critical about the deep long trunk stating that 'recovering the spare tire for a flat tire change would result in 1 muddied suit'. LOL. In fairness, the same writer would say the exact same thing about the 66 Charger....

Someone at our church had a '65 or '66 Marlin. It was built on the Classic chassis. In '67, they switched to the Ambassador chassis. There may be even fewer Marlins than two-seat AMXs!

They were cool cars !

Hello Lou! The owner of that Marlin really hooked himself a great find. The Marlin was a rare model even when new. It was AMC's attempt to cash in on the burgeoning sporty car market. It does look a little strange to some eyes (including mine) but how often do you see a Marlin today? That instrument panel looks sporty - more futuristic than that of the Rambler Classic this car is based on. And why is it so rare? As someone else mentioned in this thread, only 10,327 Marlins were made for 1965. The Marlin carried over for '66, except it was now officially an AMC model (the Marlin and the Ambassador were the first of the company's models to bear the AMC name). The Rambler name disappeared after the 1969 model year (last used on the 1964-vintage compact formerly known as the Rambler American; this, of course, spawned the highly desirable SC/Rambler - I'd love to see you do a video on one of those, if you haven't already). I remember you did a video on a 1967 Marlin only about a few months ago. Ramblers, and therefore AMCs, have always been different from the Big Three offerings. The cars, and their owners, stand out above the crowd in their own unique way. I love all classic cars from all companies, whether they're GM, Ford, Chrysler, or AMC. Heck, I even go wild over Studebakers - even though most of 'em were made before I was born! Thanks again, Lou, for another fantastic video. I'll look for a video on a 1969 SC/Rambler! Edit : I didn't have to look far - you already did videos on THREE of those SC/Ramblers!

Quite a beautiful car. Brings memories of the AMC Ambassadors I owned and wish I still owned. A word to the wise: Before too long I'd replace the timing chain and crank sprocket, plus upgrade to a steel cam sprocket. The plastic tooth sprocket from the factory wears down and lets the timing jump out of whack and it can be disastrous.

Great car!

These Marlins look so cool! Thanks for another great video Lou!

These were a fairly common sight back then and were easily confused with the Dodge Chargers of the day. I remember my parents looking at one but scrapping the idea in favor of a '66 Ambassador wagon. Our family was growing and we needed the room. My father got a '66 Impala to use for work.

Very cool car! Answer to the Barracuda and predecessor to the Charge. Shame more didn’t sell!

Dang thats sweet.

Hey Lou. You reeled in a beautiful lunker.That engine sounds like a fine tuned Swiss watch. That survivor is a trophy fish.

I love Marlins but in my opinion the 67 Marlin was the best looking of them but strangely sold the least.

Nash-Hudson quality and originality.

Of all the kenosha vibrators the marlin was my favorite ❤

That is an interesting unconventional classic - there can't be that many of these left in the year 2023. I always thought the extreme fastback design of these cars was a cool design, and it had not occurred to me that the design actually predates the early Chargers.

What a find. . . :>/

Rare and beautiful survivor 😍😍😍😍😍 Thanks Lou!

👍💯😎💯👍

Mine's red and black 327 flash automatic

As an AMC fan I've always preferred the looks of the Marlin over a Barracuda.

As kids and car enthusiasts, we could not stand Ramblers, Ramblers were a step above the foriegn cars we would ocaissionaly see, not including the MG and Triumph sports cars. Sort of like on the same level as a VW Beatle. Ramblers/AMC did not begin to gain respect until they came out with the Javelin in the late 60s which were cool. Then the early 70s AMC Matador also began to be stylish as well. By then it was too late for AMC, they refused to focus on styling until it was too late. The CJ Jeeps kept them afloat on borrowed time until Chrysler bought Jeep. For historical purposes this looks like a well kept survivor.

I have the same car currently restoring it for the second time what's my stepfather's first brand new car

Hello Lou. Lou it's safe to say the Marlin got some raised highbrow from Chrysler. Let me say two words for clarity. Cuda and Charger.

I was sure he’d say most people think it’s a ‘66 or ‘67 Charger. EDIT: I see you asked him about that! 😂There were two Marlins, a ‘66 and ‘67, parked by the side of a busy road in my hometown for decades. When I first saw them as a kid I asked my dad what they were. I always wondered what happened to them…

I have the same motor in my car

The Marlin was always such a strange car. The front looks like a boring stodgry Rambler, the back like a Chrysler E Body.

Cute cars. But under-powered. Glad he loves his Marlin!!

Very similar to a 66 or 67 Charger.

Bodylines look a lot like a 66-67 Dodge Charger

And nobody bought them back then🤷🏻‍♂️looks ok to me. I’m from Detroit and never saw many.

There's something fishy about this car.

I cringe when you turn peoples steering wheel, not a good idea when it’s not running you can ruin the rag joint 😣

There was this girl who I really liked. But she had a boyfriend, and he had a white Marlin. I've had a strong dislike of Marlins ever since! 😁

Back in the day cars with .50 thousand. Miles. Is comparison to .200 . Thousand Miles into days cars it was do two of poor quality of. oils

a great white LADY 🤍 🤍 🤍