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AMC's Awesome Malaise Compacts

When we told you about the possibility of a new Chevy-branded compact car yesterday, the howls of lamentation quickly followed, as long-repressed memories of awful bowtie-badged compacts bubbled back into consciousness. But if you think those old Chevettes, Toyota-based Novas, and Citations were bad, you're forgetting about the real champion of awesomely awful American hatchbacks: AMC.

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1:15 PM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Mark Arnold
2,188 views, 45 comments

Latest by Mike the Dog: @LandofMinos, mmm carrots, num num num num: "Would stump-jump-plough understeer and powerpole oversteer be the only two handling characteristics a more »

choose your eternity

PCH, Six-Banger Kenosha Malaise Edition: Spirit or Gremlin?

With today's Engine of the Day being the AMC inline six, it seemed only good and proper that we have a Choose Your Eternity dilemma featuring a pair of vehicles powered by that fine powerplant. It's also good to have a couple of American cars, which I really can't use very often in this series because the stuff out of Detroit is too simple and parts obtainment is too easy to make for true hell. Not so with Kenosha products, though- even though the drivetrain parts are easy to find (thanks to the Jeep connection), the body and interior components are another story entirely. And today's trip into Hell isn't just about restoring an old AMC- it's about hot-rodding the six-cylinder engine so you get at least 300 reliable horsepower out of it. The road out of Hell is steep, you see, and you'll need plenty of power to climb out of the boiling sulfur!
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5:20 PM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Murilee Martin
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Latest by N/A: @Mike the Dog: Actually, the crank and piston rods from the AMC 258 will directly fit into a Jeep 4.0, effectively more »