HELP IDENTIFYING AN OLD CAR

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A friend was going through some old photos.

Story is, his uncle bought this as a secondhand beater for ~ $400 during college, or something like that.

This was in 1971.

Any idea of the make / model?
 
My grandpa had one of those.

He was a pretty solid mechanic, always had a side gig fixing small engines, and kept the old Rambler running.

Super simple, but cars back then were constant maintenance with carburetors and point ignition systems. Most people don't even know what a tune-up is these days, and hitting 100K on the odometer was considered extraordinary.
 
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Was not the Rambler the one with the "Push Button" Automatic Transmission? ISTR that. Or, maybe it was the "Valiant."
My grandfather had a Valiant with the push button transmission. My first car was a 1964 Rambler Ambassador with a Flash-O-Matic transmission given to me by my uncle as a college graduation present. Yeah, I am old.