Does anybody here remember AMC?

[AlongCameJones]

If I remember right AMC used a lot parts from Ford and GM. I watched Junkyard Digs do a revival on two Eagles he bought and he was talking about how the alternator was GM and the spark box was a duraspark from Ford and pointed out other parts that were a mashup from the two.

My neighbor when I was in junior high and high school had a Pacer that she loved. It was her around town car. For going camping she had a 75 El Camino that she had a camper shell on and would pull a popup as well.

In 1976 my father made a remark of the Pacer: it looked to him like a pregnant frog. I've always thought of Jeeps as butt ugly too. AMC had a great defecit on looks. My grandfather told me in 1977 that AMC was a spinoff of Nash in the 1950's. He said Nash was at the bottom of the barrel. Nash is not a car he praised having sold Hudson, Lincoln and Mercury in the late1940's/1950's. Hudson was swallowed up by American Motors too hence the revival of the name HORNET in the '70's. There is a joke song about the lowly Nash Rambler:

 

[Bocephus123]

AMC had one of the most popular, modified and probably overpriced for what you are actually buying, vehicles ever sold. I am amazed it has not been mentioned. I went from hot rod cars (and many tickets) to a CJ7 in my teens and never looked back.

Jeep is an automobile marque originating in the United States, now owned by multi-national corporation Stellantis.[3][4] Jeep has been part of Chrysler since 1987, when Chrysler acquired the Jeep brand, along with remaining assets, from its previous owner American Motors Corporation (AMC).

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Jeep is a great vehicle

 

[OKCShooter]

The only AMC I could ever see as anything but junk (Including the AMC years of Harley-Davidson) but it doesn't actually exist:


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[MacFromOK]

In 1976 my father made a remark of the Pacer: it looked to him like a pregnant frog.

They were amazingly roomy inside, but yeah... they kinda looked like a greenhouse on wheels.

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[SiGArmed]

They also took over Harley's production for a bit, from '69 to '81. My dad's buddies always called them "bowling ball bikes" lol

 

[HoLeChit]

I’ve always wanted an eagle and a javelin.

 

[turkeyrun]

Hudson/Nash/Rambler/American/Eagle made some butt fugly autos. They also had some badass muscle cars.

Friend, in HS, had '69 AMX 390 and may old boss bought a new Gremlin 401. Both were scary fast.

I thought that Gremlin was the funkiest thing ever built, until they stopped up the exhaust and it puffed up into a Pacer.

We were first married and Wife wanted a Pacer. We almost ended up divorced over it.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Hudson/Nash/Rambler/American/Eagle made some butt fugly autos. They also had some badass muscle cars.

Friend, in HS, had '69 AMX 390 and may old boss bought a new Gremlin 401. Both were scary fast.

I thought that Gremlin was the funkiest thing ever built, until they stopped up the exhaust and it puffed up into a Pacer.

We were first married and Wife wanted a Pacer. We almost ended up divorced over it.

The 1975 with a 401 cid V8, one of the rarest muscle cars ever. Think they only made 5. AMX with 390 GoPack was an awesome car, looked good too. Other Trivia, the Pacer was Asymmetrical! The passenger door was longer than the driver's door to allow rear seat passengers easier ingress and digress when parked on the street! Even more weird the Pacer was supposed to have a Wankel Rotary Engine, obviously the accountants killed that idea.

 

[Hawgman]

Probably the smartest move AMC ever tried was the revolutionary Eagle.

Launched in 1979, the AMC Eagle was the world's first car-based 4x4 and perhaps the world's first crossover vehicle as we know it today. The Subraru Outback would follow that concept later on.

Personally, I think the late-'60's-onward Ambassadors were the best-looking AMC automobiles ever by far. I would not be ashamed to be seen in a minty Ambassador from that era. New Ambassadors of that final generation certainly looked nicer than some of the stuff even Big Three has built in the past.

I bought a brand new Eagle in the early 80's. I've tried to tell people it was ahead of it's time. It seems no one can see it. Glad to see at least one other person on the planet agrees with me on this point.

 

[KurtM]