American Motoring
Got a Gremlin? Mad about Matadors? Harmonious with Hornets? Rabid about Ramblers? Joyful about Javelins? If you said yes to any of the above, then mark your calendars now to attend the 2006 American...
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SC/Rambler = early halo car
We often praise the individual collector car clubs in our articles and other writings, and for good reason – they offer not only a community, but also resources and expertise. For example: Just today...
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Breedlove Javelin under restoration
Okay, we know about the Breedlove AMXs – in fact, we have one ready to go for a future issue of Hemmins Muscle Machines. But who knew Craig Breedlove drove a prepared Javelin with his name on the roof?...
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the return of AMC?
Wild speculation, of course, from the Hemispherical Blog, based on an unnamed insider source, but the conversations it’s sparked among the AMCers prove interesting. I actually just wanted an excuse to...
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Javelin ad
The Gremlin ad we linked to the other day spawned a link to another ad on YouTube for a 1968 Javelin (not 1970 as stated), featuring Richard Dreyfuss playing a punk. That’s the way to sell cars – with...
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Spring Carlisle Flashback
Long after an automotive event has come and gone, I sometimes wonder if something I saw on the field ever sold. In the case of the Spring Carlisle event, there were two vehicles that struck me in...
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fiberglass firewall
Oh, man. Misinformation is a sort of running joke among AMC folk. “You know, the 390 in that thar Javelin’s a Ford motor.” Or my favorite: “AMC built cars using only other companies’ parts.” Came...
View ArticlePony Car Showdown III
Pony car loyalists won’t want to miss the United States Muscle Car Federation’s Pony Car Showdown III on May 12, 2007, in Williamsport, Maryland. The one-of-a-kind event will spotlight 60 classes of...
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158 mph in the boss’s car on an Alabama evening
In researching an upcoming story for Hemmings Muscle Machines about the 1971 and 1972 AMC Javelins that the Alabama Department of Public Safety’s State Troopers used, I spoke with Trooper Tim Butts,...
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Monterey Historics: Trans-Am Snippets
As much as I’d like to post all 569 action shots I took of the 10-lap Trans-Am event on Saturday afternoon at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, I can’t. For a number of reasons. Including the 33-shot sequence...
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Thank you, Eddie Stakes – AMC Trans-Am literature
Long before viral marketing, YouTube and ad people that spoke of “paradigms,” AMC went Trans-Am racing with its new Javelin, and to publicize that racing effort (and, not incidentally, to move more...
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“The Great White Hunter”– wha…?
From Eddie Stakes comes this ad for a 1968 AMC Javelin, “the first of the AMX cars.” So, if we read literally into this, is the AMC Javelin the tool of the hunter or the hunter itself? Will it eat up...
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Four-Links – TA Javelin registry, Leyland turbine, CoRVair, another Mustang...
* Josh over at the AMC Javelin Trans Am Registry just emailed us this week to let us know that the registry’s new website is up, and contains just about everything you need to know about the cars,...
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A Vintage Racer With an Unfair Advantage
The 1971 AMC Penske Javelin that Mark Donohue drove to victory in the ’71 Trans-Am series will be auctioned off at Russo and Steele’s Monterey sale next month. The car has been restored to...
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Americans abroad – Javelin in Turkey, Ambassador in New Zealand
It almost seems incongruous to think of American Motors – that company so immersed in the red, white and blue that it adopted the color scheme for its race cars and for its logo – as exporting its...
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Ty-Rods 2010: New England hot rodding at its best
For years, my friends up here in the Northeast have been telling me that I must attend the big Ty-Rods show every September. The Ty-Rods, which have been around since 1952, bill themselves as the...
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Auction Preview: Mecum’s Kansas City Sale
Stop number two of the season for Mecum Auctions is their upcoming Kansas City sale, scheduled for this weekend at the Kansas City Convention Center – Bartle Hall in Kansas City, Missouri. A quick...
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Parts-O-Plenty: AMC
If you’re in the midst of an AMC restoration, Ontario, Canada-based Jim’s Restoration has released a number of new reproduction parts in recent months, beginning with the rearview mirror pictured...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1972 AMC AMX
As awesome as the various Big Bad-painted and Pierre Cardin-interiored Javelins and AMXs were, there’s something to be said for one that dispenses with such visual tricks, such as this 1972 AMC AMX,...
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Jav-olution: the Seventies Javelin that never was
After we published the photos of the four AMC Project IV concept cars a couple of weeks ago, we realized that we had earlier received a small collection of photos from David Greenlees documenting a...
View ArticleWho carries a bowl of goldfish on their seat?
As Aaron Severson and Mal Fuller pointed out yesterday, it was Wells, Rich and Greene that gave AMC a cheekier image in the late 1960s, especially with commercials like the one for the 1969 AMX and...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1969 AMC Javelin SST
Even though production numbers for first-generation Javelins far exceeded those for AMXs, it’s the latter that seem to appear at car shows and change hands more often, making us appreciate the...
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Breedlove Javelin, Mickey Thompson Corvette, and Prudhomme Pepsi Challenger...
All images courtesy Mecum Auctions To the best of our knowledge, Craig Breedlove, Mickey Thompson, and Don Prudhomme never went head-to-head-to-head, even though all three competed in their respective...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 AMC Javelin Pierre Cardin interior
In the early 1970s, AMC decided to do something radical: It would pair up with famous fashion designers for special editions of its cars, seen by some (okay, by many) as the least fashionable cars on...
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Javelin gasser gets second chance at the quarter-mile
Photos courtesy George Helmer This is something none of us have ever seen before, a for-real drag Gasser based on a 1968 American Motors Javelin, which, of all things, had begun its life by being...
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Four-Links – Museum of Automotive Art?, Pierre Cardin Javelin registry,...
Mighty J by Tom Hale * Automotive art can take many forms, from the cars themselves to the renderings done in the development stages to the paintings and sculpture the Automotive Fine Art Society is...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 AMC Javelin
While AMXs almost always steal the lion’s share of attention away from Javelins, this particular 1973 AMC Javelin for sale on Hemmings.com has a few things going for it, among them the Z-code 401 and...
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Ronnie Kaplan, a driving force behind AMC’s Trans-Am efforts, dead at age 87
Ronnie Kaplan talks to driver John Martin, circa 1969. Photo courtesy The Trans- Am Javelin Registry. In 1967, automaker AMC found itself with both a desire to go racing and a new car, the Javelin,...
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Jim Jeffords, Corvette racing legend and motorsport entrepreneur, dead at age 87
Jim Jeffords in his racing days. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. Over the course of his six-decade career, Jim Jeffords contributed much to motorsports in America in a number of different...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1970 AMC Javelin
With just about every factory performance option and accessory ladled onto this Big Bad Green 1970 AMC Javelin for sale on Hemmings.com, it’s surprising to see that it doesn’t have the Trendsetter...
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