American Motors Corporation, better known as AMC, was one of the true underdogs of the American car industry in the 1960s and 1970s. The company, formed in 1954 after a merger between Nash-Kelvinator ...

AMC gets a bad rap from just about everyone. Sloppy build quality, controversial styling, a hodgepodge of parts from other manufacturers, perpetual chassis carryover—you name it, AMC has caught hell ...

This 1974 AMC Gremlin got a V8 engine swap to ape the special-edition Randall-built XRs of the day. This 1974 AMC Gremlin got a V8 engine swap to ape the special-edition Randall-built XRs of the day.

I can’t really talk about this 6.6-liter V8, four-speed tribute 1974 AMC Gremlin 401-XR without talking about the original, and we can’t talk about the original without talking about the basic compact ...

Ah, the American Motors Corporation! One of the automakers we’ve lost along the way, AMC is revered to this day for quirky designs like the Javelin. Produced from 1967 to 1974 exclusively as a ...

There aren’t as many engine shops around as there was when I was growing up. Ready-to-go crate engines and large-scale engine remanufacturers with computerized plants have lowered the buy-in price of ...

In 1971, the state of Alabama had two issues to solve: the officials had to buy new cars for the state troopers, and they didn’t have heaps of money to make ends meet. Since the Big Three offers were ...

As the accompanying tables indicate, there are lots of mix-and-match possibilities for American Motors Corporation (AMC)—but there are also some subtile differences that can really bite you on the ...

The AMC 401 V8 engine doesn't have the same level of notoriety as some of its competitors, but it was a top spec powerplant for some of AMC's most iconic cars.

The American Motors Corporation (AMC) is likely best remembered as the plucky underdog competitor to the Big Three in the late 1960s and 1970s, with cars like the Hornet, Javelin, Matador, and ...