American Motors Articles, Pictures, & Videos

Metalflake Paint Job - The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

Rooftop metalflake is way better than a vinyl roof, in our opinion more

Learn How To Install A Rollbar

The CC/Rambler is back with a bar that won't get Glad tossed from the track more

1974 AMC Javelin AMX - Junkyard Crawl

Are we crazy or was this Javelin's shifter handle designed by an NFL kicker? more

When AMC Was a Real Car Company - Rear View

A look back at when AMC used to be a real car company with the '68 Randall Rambler more

Run Huge Nitrous On Your Street Machine

Don't Run A Crazy Mechanical Cam And Monster Compression-Get Stupid Power And Driveability When Run Nitrous. We Show You How. more

1970 AMC Rebel Machine - Welcome To The Machine

AMC's Midsize Muscle "Rebel Machine" May Have Been Late, but That Didn't Keep Tony Branson From the Party more

1976 AMC Pacer X - Mopacer

Equal Parts Amc And Jeep, This Little Pacer Makes A Perfect Low-Buck, Dare To Be Different Power Tour(r) Project. more

1969 AMC Javelin SST - Breaking Down On The Road Can Be Good

We Chronicle One Man's Year One Experience. more

1964 AMC Rambler Classic - The Rumbler

Brian Anderson's Homebuilt, Turbocharged Rambler Dares to Be Different With 7-Second E.T.'s more

1967 American Motors Rambler - Build a $3,500 Street Machine

Don't spend big bucks-get a good foundation then build on a budget. We'll show you how to build a $3,500 street machine. more

American Motors Rambler Fender And Dent Repair - Learn How To Fix A Dent

We show you how to fix a dent on our Project 1967 AMC Rambler on a budget more

AMC AMX - Funkified!

In the early '70s, AMC's design vice president, Richard Teague, gave a white '69 AMX with a 390-inch engine and an automatic transmission to custom car designer George Barris with instructions to create a visionary vehicle that could be displayed at auto shows more

1969 AMC Rambler - Ketchum If You Can

Jack Ketchum's Stupid Rambler Runs 9.9s At 137. more

Camshaft - Adjust Valve Lash Before You Start The Engine

Under a tree, in a remote corner of the earth, there is a guy adjusting his hydraulic valve lash with the valve cover off and the engine running. Yes, it's true. We've seen it. Proof is that you can buy valve covers with the tops cut off so that very same guy more

AMC Pacer - 'Rear View

And you think we're bad nowMan, this is horrific. Every time you look at today's CC/Rambler and TA Mustang projects and wonder what we're thinking, just remember the days when CC built the likes of Jeeps, Pintos, Hondas, and-yes-even AMC Pacers. Not that som more

Learn To Paint Your Engine Compartment

Dumping the old engine for a bigger, badder one? Why not learn to paint your engine compartment more

1967 AMC Rumbler

Take a closer look at the AHRA Stock Eliminator. more

1973 AMC Javelin - The Mango Gambler

Sometimes we forget that some guys just want to have fun with musclecars. No racing, technical buildups, or careful wax therapy. Just fun. We remember on a not-so-long-ago magazine timeline when we fully embraced the hugeness and wretched excess of the Pro Str more

1972 AMC Javelin AMX - Practical In Purple

Fate has a curious way of determining our destiny. Take Bruce Gordon, for example. Back in the late '70s/early '80s, Bruce was in the market for his first car, and being an enthusiast, responded to an ad for a 455-powered LeMans. As it turned out, the seller a more

1979 AMC Spirit GT - The Spirit Of Kenosha

The AMC contingent of our hobby is a passionate one-we know this from experience. Over the years, we've also learned that the AMC engine can be made into a bona-fide contender in the horsepower wars, though this is usually proven in a straight line. George Dou more

1969 AMC AMX - Big Bad Orange

James Seitz's Rare '69 AMC AMX more