As awesome as the various Big Bad-painted and Pierre Cardin-interiored Javelins and AMXs were, there’s something to be said for one that dispenses with such visual tricks, such as this 1972 AMC AMX, with its 360, Machine wheels and simple black interior. Sure, there’s the bright Trans Am Red paint, the stripe, the vinyl roof […]
Any AMC enthusiast with half an interest in the history of the company can tell you that the landmark two-seater AMX grew out of the Project IV group of four concept cars, one of which was the so-called Vignale AMX, with its working Rambleseat. But what of the other three cars in the group? Though […]
The story of the Intermeccanica Torino/Italia is one that doesn’t get repeated often nowadays. It started with Jack Griffith, the New York car dealer (see “Hot Rod Hero,” HMM #92), who attempted to follow up his TVR-based Griffith 200 and 400 with the clean-sheet, Bob Cumberford-designed, Mark Donohue-engineered, Chrysler V-8-powered Griffith 600, but ran out […]