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 ...

When Jeff Latimer of Southern California's JGM Performance Engineering advised us he was about to build an American Motors 401 for an AMX, it brought back memories of the way AMC muscle cars were ...

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 ...

His love for cars began with a ride home from the hospital in a 280 SEL. 'Car' was his first word. Now, many automotive adventures (and misadventures) later, he channels his enthusiasm into everything ...

Today, hot hatches and muscle cars are two fundamentally different types of vehicles. However, back in the early 1970s, an AMC dealership created a model that could wear both hats with flying colors.

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.

American Motors Corporation spent the muscle car era fighting with fewer resources than its Detroit rivals, yet it managed to put some of the lightest V8 performance cars of the period on the street.

American Motors Corporation was the biggest independent carmaker in the seventies, which is to say it was the other American car company at the time that mattered. And sometimes, it actually kicked ...