This RARE Muscle Car Had The Corvette In It's Crosshairs - The AMC AMX

The saddest story of one of the best American car makers * hated by many _ loved by a few : including me * engineers and designers just excellent _ AMC will always be an Icon in history ❤

My brother's AMX was wicked. Burnt orange with dbl. black stripe, side exhaust. It sounded incredible! As a 12 yr. old in 1970 this was as good as gets. I would beg him to take me school so my friends could see and here this magnificent beast. Ahh...great memories! Now he drives an SUV 🙄

I love AMC`s. From the AMX, to the Machine and the Scrambler, they were nice cars.

I prefer the grille on the ‘69 but also like the hood blister of the ‘70. The black hood color scheme looked fantastic to me. The AMX was truly a beautiful design. Sad that the gas crunch (among other issues) ended its run as a standalone. Love seeing them now.

The 1970 AMX was the best 2-seat version. It's a shame that the 401ci V8(330hp) never made it to the two-seater AMX. That would have been interesting.

As a Corvette fanatic, I approve this video. lol My Dad was a Master Mechanic and a former Sprint Car Crew Chief. As I was growing up, he taught me the basics of being a mechanic on mostly GM cars because that's what he preferred. However, he had high praise for AMC products when it came to general mechanics. In his words, "Learning to fix an AMC is the best way to learn how to fix ANY vehicle." and he wasn't wrong. Many parts were interchangeable with THE BIG 3. It was like having a Ford engine mounted to a GM transmission connected to a Chrysler/Dodge rearend. lol Seriously, they put the best of all 3 into one package. After learning how to fix them, while learning the history in the process, I rather felt sorry for AMC. They were the "little brother" who never got the recognition they deserved. THE BIG FOUR should've been the proper way to address the American Automotive Industry. I've owned several different AMC vehicles in my lifetime and I feel they deserve more credit than they've been given. Without them, the JEEP name would've died out many decades ago!!

Uncle had a pair of 70 AMXs. At 15 I fell in love with the sick lil 2 seater. Ripping down the highway, throwing it into a slide, and being able to easily recover.

It's a shame these didn't last long enough for a second generation. I'd love to see what the 2nd gen Javelin would look like as a 2-seater.

Loved the fuel spewing out at 1:29

Mine was the 1968 model in gold with the small 290 v8, back in the late 1970s and early 1980s.. Not as much s ground-pounder as the big 390, but still a quick car. Somewhat uncomfortable, the ride was stiff and the seat backs were painful if leaned way back. But I loved it. A few times I raced 455 T-As, and easily beat them off the line. But geared low it topped out at 104MPH. I wish I still had it. Absolute funnest car to drive I have ever had.

The challenger came out in 70, we know what you mean it just was weird. Thank you for the video the AMX is definitely one of my favorites

In 1968, I lived in Salinas, California, and I lived a block away from the auto sales area of the city. Where the street I lived on met in a T-intersection, going towards the T, on the left was the Chevy dealership, and on the opposite corner was the AMC dealership, with the Pontiac/Buick/Oldsmobile/GMC dealership across the street from them. I was a stone-cold car nut at the age of 8, so if my mom couldn't find me on a Saturday, she always knew where to look. The Camaros and Firebirds were still a relative new thing, in their second year of production, and they were definitely cool as hell, with the Camaro topping my dream car list after that dealer just acquired an SS396 4-speed in Maroon with white stripes and a parchment/black interior with an am/fm radio and factory a/c, and I fell in love with that car! It was as loaded as a car like that could be, according to the sales manager who befriended me. I begged my dad to buy it, but he bought a '68 Mustang GT 390 instead. I'd go to sit in that Camaro and dream about having that car almost every Saturday until it sold about two months later, but just before it sold, I noticed a very odd looking but very cool AMC painted red, white and blue being off-loaded across the street, so I just had to get a closer look. The only other cool AMC I'd ever seen in person before was a Red, White and Blue "The Machine" prototype that was being demo 'ed at the local drag strip. The Chevy guys would let me sit and dream in that Camaro (or any other Chevy car, including any Vette that they had in the showroom), but the AMC sales manager was a real prick to me. I only got two chances to look closely at that AMX, just enough to know that it had a 4-speed, a black interior, a roll bar and NO BACK SEAT! That assh0le never allowed me to sit in it, and chewed my ass if I even touched it. Of course, that made me even more curious about it. Three years later, one of my dad's friends at the CHP bought a used one in Orange with a black interior, and this guy even let me drive it on a supermarket parking lot on a Sunday evening after the store closed. That car was really quick. My dad had been letting me drive his manual tranny pickup on deer hunting trips since I was about 10, so I knew how to do it, and I was actually a tall 10-year-old! They both laughed so hard when I stalled it in 1st gear on the first attempt to get rolling but squealed the tires on the very next try. I fell in love all over again. I would have bought one soon after I joined the Marines in 1977, but these cars were very rare even at that time, and the gas shortage in 1973-74 had the original AMX owners (and practically every other performance car owner out there) selling those cars to buy economy cars well before I could even start to think about earning money to buy one. Drag racers all over the country were also buying them up used, so I didn't see another AMX in good condition until I went to a car show in 1987. Man, oh man, had I just have been a little older! I've owned lots of different hot performance cars since I started buying cars, but the AMX is what I always wanted, and they always seemed to be very elusive for me. I don't have the fortune necessary to buy a good example today, as even rough builders can cost an arm and a leg to acquire.

Wow, one of the most gorgeous pieces of steel! I clicked immediately!

One big advantage of the AMX over the CORVETTE was being made of metal and not fiberglass.

Beautiful cars. Guess I like the simpler look of the earlier ones the best but the 70 model is also pretty sweet looking.

Such a beautiful car. The design itself is still modern. I love the 1970 AMX.

Technically this car did accomplish what it was supposed to in the Trans Am series. These were very underrated cars and very underappreciated cars as well.

"One of the best looking cars, if not the best looking car made in the USA." I think there's others that are up there too but it's definitely among the finalists. 😘😍 In my top 5 of all muscle/pony cars. I remember a young, engineer neighbour down the street from me growing up, he had three. One red, one yellow and another in the garage taken apart he was working on or for parts, I'm not sure. The guy was an enthusiast and I can't blame him. I always stared at his sweet AMXs.

I love the early 2 seaters, great looking design. The later 71-74's had super sexy lines, and look great from almost any angle.

Thank you for this video on AMX. 2 points: 1970 front suspension was redesigned by Mark Donohue for Trans-Am racing (68-69 Javelin and AMX had same front suspension as my 63 Rambler Ambassador), the engine block deck height was increased with revised oiling and new dog leg port heads were installed.