The American Motors Corporation is probably the best-known carmaker in American history to successfully challenge the Big Three supremacy. In the late sixties, Ford and General Motors were fiercely ...

The 1971 AMC Javelin AMX arrived just as the classic muscle era was starting to fade, yet it managed to hit far above its market position in performance, design, and racing credibility. In a field ...

Just as there was once an age of giant reptiles some 100-odd million years ago, there was once an age of American automotive giants. Although they may be dinosaurs today, the “Big Three”—General ...

In 1971, Mark Donahue dominated the SCCA Trans-Am competition with a race-built AMC Javelin AMX, a Roger Penske-sponsored car that was the last competitive gasp of American Motors. Two years ago, that ...

He rolls the trailer in at 10 p.m., two jacks and a pocket full of optimism, chasing dust and destiny. By morning, he’s prying open a barn and history blinks back—two bubble-fendered AMCs, dormant for ...

Miriam-Webster dictionary defines a muscle car as "any of a group of American-made 2-door sports coupes with powerful engines designed for high-performance driving." Of course, sometimes the lines get ...

Chuck Page and Rick Mullaney met when they both received a free trip to an exotic land courtesy of good ol' Uncle Sam. It was 1968, and the call to arms brought both young men halfway around the world ...

Rob Carbonell’s AMX Javelin is decked out in Surfside Turquoise, one of 18 colors on the AMC pallet for 1972. The AMX Javelin was a force to be reckoned with back in the seventies! In 1971, Mark ...

As the car company with the practical reputation of being the car for the human race, American Motors seemed ill-equipped to respond to the performance revolution of the 1960s, and even less likely to ...

For muscle car collectors, acquiring a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 LS6 ranks among the ultimate discoveries—comparable to unearthing the Ark of the Covenant—while a 1971 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda ...

Historians may have consigned Pontiac and American Motors Corporation (AMC) to the history books, but fans of both car brands are keeping the spirit alive and putting the classics through their paces ...