page_title: AMC Ambassador
section_title: New Zealand
hierarchical_section_title: AMC Ambassador / International markets / New Zealand
caption_attribution_description: Amazingly, this is not the first Ambassador I have seen - the other one was festering away in someone's front yard, but it has now been removed. Anyway, this one is RHD and a NZ new car, which leads me to wonder if it was a special order. It's a shame it's lost its original wheels really.
context_page_description: The Ambassador is a full-size automobile manufactured and marketed by American Motors Corporation from 1957-1974 over eight generations, in two-and four-door sedan, two-door hardtop, station wagon and convertible body styles.
  When discontinued, the Ambassador nameplate had been used from 1927-1974, the longest continuously-used car nameplate until then. The Ambassador nameplate was used variously as the Ambassador V-8 by Rambler, Rambler Ambassador, and finally AMC Ambassador. Previously, the nameplate Ambassador applied to Nash's full-size cars. The nameplate referred to a trim level between 1927 and 1931.
  Ambassadors were manufactured in Kenosha, Wisconsin as well as at AMC's Brampton Assembly in Brampton, Ontario from 1963 to 1966. Australian Motor Industries assembled Ambassadors from knock-down kits with right-hand drive from 1961 to 1963. The U.S. fifth generation Ambassadors were manufactured by Industrias Kaiser Argentina in Córdoba, Argentina from 1965 to 1972, as well as assembled by ECASA in Costa Rica from 1965 to 1970. Planta REO assembled first-generation Ambassadors in Mexico at its Monterrey, Nuevo León plant.
context_section_description: American Motors motor vehicles were assembled in New Zealand by VW Motors at their Volkswagen plant in Otahuhu, Auckland from 1958 until 1962. From 1964, AMC vehicles were assembled by Campbell Motor Industries (CMI) in Thames, North Island. CMI assembled the Rambler Classic and Rebel models from knock-down kits and also imported fully assembled factory-right-hand-drive vehicles direct from AMC. Although no Ambassadors were locally assembled by CMI, it is believed twelve 1970 factory-right-hand-drive Ambassadors were fully imported.
caption: One of 12 factory-RHD 1970 Ambassadors for the New Zealand market
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