Although I like/liked the look of the Rebel, it carried the uncoolness of still being a Rambler (67). The folding down seats to make a bed was still an interesting feature. 😎
My family went with Hudson to AMC, while I liked the styling of the Rebel & Ambassador both suffered from not the best engineering & poor quality control.
Did anybody make a model of the Rebel? I built a few AMC models, and never saw one.
This Gremlin was rubber banded into a display case for years and it sorta messed up the caster and camber on the rear wheels. I know, I know but, in my display case, there was caster and camber on everything.
In 1959 Johnny Cash recorded "The Rebel – Johnny Yuma," written by Richard Markowitz and Andrew J. Fenady. Cash was asked to perform the theme song to the TV western The Rebel, which starred Nick Adams and ran from 1959 to 1961. The theme of the series must have appealed to Cash. It was the tale of a young Confederate soldier who is left to wander aimlessly throughout the West two years after the Civil War had ended. The song perfectly captures the loneliness the soldier experiences as he wanders alone through a lawless land. And although Cash did not write it, you would never know it. The song made it to number 24 on the country chart in 1961, shortly before the series was canceled. It was originally released as the title song of [the four-song 1959 EP] Johnny Cash Sings the Rebel – Johnny Yuma.
— John M. Alexander. The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash
The video I first posted here is the 1959 single recorded by Johnny Cash. The original TV version starts on this video at 2:30 and is obviously sung by Johnny Cash.
the other video posted was done by a cover band called Television's Greatest Hits Band in a series first released in 1985. vol 2 in 1986 contains The Rebel.
@frank, I have that "Television's Greatest Hits Volume II" album. Though it is fun to hear the old TV theme songs, there a few of them that are not the originals. I'm guessing perhaps because of licensing rights or something of that nature.
