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IT ALWAYS COMES AS A SHOCK WHEN you ask a car owner how many vehicles he owns, and he has to sit for a moment and do the math. “How many do I have? You mean indoors?”

Let us cut to the chase: Terry Gale owns at least 250 restored cars (and hundreds more unrestored ones). The overwhelming majority of these, stored indoors in a number of museum-quality buildings, are AMCs and Ramblers, with consideration given to models before (i.e., Nash) and after (i.e., Renault, Eagle) AMC’s existence. The presentation, tightly packed and impeccably clean, would make most car nuts woozy. He gleefully shows tours of enthralled enthusiasts around his Colorado compound, nicknamed “Rambler Ranch.”

Within that 250-car collection dedicated to the preservation of the AMC marque, there are of course examples of Kenosha’s entrant into the pony car wars, the