This picture is what my Marlin and I do best. Head down the highway. Hi, I'm Stan Kelly, president and founder of the Pacific Gold Rush Ramblers, and have  been involved with AMCRC for about 12 years. I'm a huge AMC and Rambler fan, my wife says it's an  addiction.  I currently have 13 Marlin's (4 1967's , 2 1966's, and 7  1965's), a 1968 AMX, 2 1965 Ambassador Wagons an 880 and a 990, a  1960 Rambler American Super, a 1961 Rambler American 400 Convertible, and 1978 AMC Pacer, 1979 AMC Spirit, 1982 AMC Concord. I'm also working on the 1962 Rambler Classic 400 2 Door Sedan PGRR is going to be restoring and selling this year. Pictures of most of these cars can be found on the bottom of this page.

This above picture is of my favorite Rambler, however, I love them all. 
This is my 1965 Rambler Marlin (Antiqua Red and Classic Black) I 
purchased it on June 17, 1973 at the ripe old age of 16.  I still 
have the car and drive it regularly.  It has attended a number of 
AMCRC meets including the 2005 AMCRC National Meet in Sacramento, the 
2001 AMCRC, the 1999 AMCRC meet in Ocean Shores, and number of annual 
Ocean Shore and AMC Rendevous. I've logged approx 300K miles in the 
the 33 years I've owned it. It's a very nice driver and shows quite 
well but it usually doesn't win best of show, however, it does win a 
lot of long distance awards. This car has never been  what I would 
call restored. She's been maintained all her life and when something 
breaks it's repaired. She's been painted three times, once after a 
friend hit her in the drivers side during college, I've worn out 4 
interiors (3 original and 1 temporary), The engine and transmission 
have been rebuilt once. After many years her differential gave out 
and had to be replaced and I updated the disc brakes to the later 
style about 15 years ago a little problem with stopping in the 
driveway by using a garage door, luckily no damage to the sheetmetel. 
I'm the third and will most likely be her last owner. I've already 
notified my family that the car stay's in the family and my 12 year 
old son has volunteered to keep it for me. It was demonstrator for 
Cemo Motors in Porterville, CA for two years and sold new in 1967. 
The original owners traded it in on a Toyota in 1973, I still can't 
believe they did this. I purchased it from the dealer, Parson's 
Motors, that took it in trade. I spotted it at the back of the lot 
sitting between a 1967 Cadillac and the office.  Once I saw it I knew 
it was love at first site and I had to have it. I paid a whopping 
$599 for it and it took me two years to pay it off at $35 a month.

One of the more interesting things about this car is that it has been 
the catalyst for many things in my life. I took it on my first date, 
proposed to my wife in it, used it as a family car, and it's the 
reason everyone one of my 4 brothers and sisters currently own a 
Marlin (My oldest sister owns a 1966, My oldest brother a 1966 
factory 4-speed, my middle brother a 1965 Twin-stick, and my youngest 
sister a 1965) Owning this car has afforded me the opportunity to be 
associated with and to have met some of the nicest people in the 
world. I can't imagine what I would be doing had I purchased the 1967 
Mustang Fastback I was looking at the same week in 1973.