The 1969 AMC AMX arrived as a compact, two-seat muscle car that looked like nothing else in American showrooms. It was fast, relatively affordable, and rare, yet its strict two-passenger layout meant ...

This is a segment I produced for the TV show MotorWeek as part of their "Muscle Car Memories" series. American Motors Corporation arrived late to the muscle car party with the 1968 Javelin, but to ...

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 ...

Introduced for the 1968 model year, the AMC AMX was a shorter-wheelbase, two-seat take on the Javelin. This configuration not only made it unique in AMC's lineup but also made it one of only two ...

It's a hard thing to wrap your brain around: spending 34 years to restore a car—a hard-to-find-parts-for car like a 1969 American Motors AMX, no less. Nobody spends that kind of time on anything. Even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to automotive marques, AMC is not exactly a household name, and likely unknown to anyone born after the demise of ...

In 1968, American Motors introduced a short-wheelbase, two-seat sports car called the AMX that many saw as a shot across the bow of the Chevrolet Corvette. Despite serving up reasonable performance ...

Until the mid-2000s, the AMC AMX could be labeled one of the American automotive industry's forgotten treasures. However, with more and more aficionados showing interest in the retro two-seater, I ...

The old proverb, like father, like son, surely smacked true in the Prchal household - with Mark inheriting his dad's penchant for AMC power. After cruising around in a 1966 Rambler, Mark's father, Tom ...

True American Motors buffs can especially appreciate the rarity of the '69 AMX. For starters, American Motors produced only 8,293 cars that year, and it was also the first year for the factory Big Bad ...

I have one huge beef with the classic American car scene, and it's that you tend to just see the same stuff over and over and over again. Mustang, Camaro, GTO, Bel-Air. There's so much great vintage ...