Andrew Herrmann
Hot Wheels, Johnny Lightning (RIP), Green Light, Matchbox, Flying Cherries, Yat Ming, to name a few, and old standbys like Pilen, Juguinsa, Jo-Han (RIP), AMT, and the popularity rose each time with movies like Pixar's CARs series with Grem the Gremlin & Acer the Pacer. There has...
in the fall of 1973, they named the new Matador Coupe as “1974’s Best Styled Car“. AMC’s Richard Teague and Robert Nixon, along with the designated design team, were given the task of creating a competitor
This is the fate of a AMC prototype.The beautiful AMX/2 ended up shoved on a used car dealership pole in PA. Twin Pines Used cars. Lucky for AMC fans, after decades up there eventually it was brought down and sold, and now in the Fred Phillips AMC collection in Canada along with the...
He grew up splitting his knuckles on British automobiles, came of age in the golden era of Japanese sport-compact performance, and began writing about cars and people in 2008. His particular interest is the intersection between humanity and machinery, whether it is the racing career of Wal...
The AMX had the unique distinction of being the first American made, steel-bodied two-seat car since the Ford Thunderbird 10+ years earlier. 1970 would be the last year of the AMX in this configuration and AMC sold just 4,116 of them that year. 1,632 cars had the 390 V-8 with a...
Then there was the company's racing program. Starting in 1968 American Motors dove head-first into SCCA Trans-Am competition with the Javelin, where it took on cars like the Mercury Cougar and the Ford Mustang Boss. A third-place finish that year was as good as a win for a team ...
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In 1958, AMC’s first model year following the demise of Nash and Hudson, Romney hedged his bets with two additional Rambler models: the subcompact Rambler American (really the original Rambler with new skin) and the big Ambassador. This put AMC in the novel position of offering cars in th...
interesting. Often AMC would lead the way, only to be over taken in the long run by foreign companies and the big three. So to better understand the history of AMC, here is a list of the top 10 cars sold by the American Motor Corporation, and also Jeep, the “crown jule” of AMC...