For a while after we looked up the history of Stirling-engined AMCs last year, we followed several leads looking for the actual cars used for those tests, but to no avail. Fortunately, John Corey, who worked on the team that studied automotive Stirling engines for NASA, recently came across that post and in the ensuing […]
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 […]
The Matador coupe is one of those 1970s love-it-or-hate-it designs, perhaps even more polarizing than the Gremlin, Pacer, Vega and Pinto. It’s, of course, the bug-eyed Colonnade-like design that makes it so: After all, the coupe generates way more comments than the more conservative Matador sedan. This 1977 AMC Matador coupe, one of the desirable […]