Hornet AMXs to reunite in Kenosha

It’s not much of a stretch to say that 2011 will be the year the 1977 AMC Hornet AMX gets the most notice since the car was new. First, a feature article on the Hornet AMX will appear in the July 2011 issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines (using photos from the exact same photo shoot […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 AMC Hornet

Oh, California. I should know better than to lust after your fruit. You are, after all, on the other side of the country, and the shipping costs would kill me. But then I see cars like this clergy-owned 1973 AMC Hornet for sale on Hemmings.com, and I think, dang, that’d make for a nice daily […]

Early shoots of green – enviro-conscious cars in 1973

With the OPEC oil embargo against the United States just starting to lead to nationwide gas shortages, the first-ever Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development at first glance seemed rather fortuitously timed.
Yet, as the very name of the symposium stated, its aims were less to reduce oil consumption by making vehicles more fuel efficient […]