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    52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
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    Image of Dennis Ford Dennis Ford
    03/09/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    what, no Marlins?
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/10/09

    @Dennis Ford: As I pointed out above, I suspect that these are the "first to go in a pinch" cars. The truly interesting ones probably won't surface unless Mr. Green's financial situation gets worse.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    03/08/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    Oh my goodness.


    It's a good thing that's happening nowhere near me.

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    Image of PatFromGundo PatFromGundo
    03/08/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    I respect the marque fanaticism on display here, but I am extremely curious about its source. What is it that fueled this guy's AMC compulsion? I had a '78 Pacer for my first car, and the only thing it moved me to do was save up for something else. On the other hand, mine was a rusty, dented, tired-ass hand me down, and these are awkwardly-cut gems.


    So what was it? Why 40 AMCs instead of 4 Chevelles? Was it pure opportunism, was the shear number of pristine and unwanted Kenosha malaise-sleds too huge to ignore? Or maybe, was Steve Green himself a little off-center, a little strange, competent but never a perfect fit? In the Gremlin, the Pacer, the Matador, did Steve Green see himself?


    (Personally, I think the answer is self-evident.)

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/08/09

    @PatFromGundo: Different strokes, y'know? Think about the Edsel collectors. And then there's fond association = grandma had one of these and my fondest memory is riding with her to get ice cream...it's just not rational! Me, I'd have the Chevelles, but Stevie here was AMC-fixated. I wonder if he thought, "It's KILLING ME to let these go!" or more along the lines of "WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?!"
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    Image of PatFromGundo PatFromGundo
    03/08/09

    @PatFromGundo: In other news, look at that shiny new star! Where did that little fella come from?
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    Image of eggwich del fiero eggwich del fiero
    03/07/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    My lack of knowledge about AMCs not called Eagles and the Jalopnik photo gallery's lack of captioning lead me to statements like "I like the grey one with white stripes" and "big white and grey wagon is beastly". This makes me feel bad about myself.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/08/09

    @eggwich del fiero - $3800 w/o rims obo: Click through to the original. There's not a lot of info there, but there is some. You'll be clicking a lot to see most of it, though.
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    03/07/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    That 79 AMC Pacer Woody gives me a hard one.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    03/07/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    I would would like to have seen a '79 Spirit-based AMX - the last year for the V8s, even if it was only a weak 130-hp 304:



    I know the pictured car is red, but black is really the only appropriate color for these.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/07/09

    @tonyola: I really, really shouldn't want one.


    I think the only Malaise car more desirable is an early one of those in Eagle form, 4wd, but otherwise nearly identical. And yes, black.

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    03/07/09

    @Foozy Ploosh Room: And 304/manual, 'course. Thanks.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    03/07/09

    @Foozy Ploosh Room: Sadly, there were no V8 Eagles - the V8 was gone by 1980, when the Eagle was introduced. The Eagle version of the Spirit was called the 50 or SX/4, and was only available in '81 through '83. There never was an official AWD version of the AMX.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/07/09

    @tonyola: Wait, there weren't? I could've sworn...


    ...I'll take your word, though. Can I drop one in, though? I could care less about the 258, and wasn't the Iron Duke standard for a couple years? Blech.


    This, however, is important. Why?


    The earlier Iron Dukes used the same bellhousing pattern as the small/big-block Chevy V8s. Park a 305 under there and you've got decent power practically free.

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    03/07/09

    @Foozy Ploosh Room: "GMX"?
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/08/09

    @Foozy Ploosh Room: It's possible but not easy to V8 swap an Eagle.


    [www.javelinamx.com]


    I don't know about the Iron Puke cars, but on 258 cars, the front diff actually mounts to the engine block, so there's some fabrication involved. My general distaste for Chevy Swaps in particular and cross-manufacturer swaps in general surfaces a bit here when i tell you that it's probably going to be easier in the long run to go all-AMC on such a swap, or at least use Mopar power, since that's where the rest of the drivetrain came from.


    [Adds "Mopar", "AMC", and "drivetrain to FF's spell checker]

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    Image of John Krewson John Krewson
    03/07/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    Er. If I may:


    In Wisconsin, we make the cheese. We eat the cheese.

    We brew the beer. We drink the beer.

    We sewed the overalls. We wear the overalls.

    We built the AMCs. We put 'em on trucks, shipped them right the Christ to Chicago and drove our Fords home for the night with no regrets.


    My cousin worked at both the Racine plant and Kenosha Assembly. I still have his AMC SHIFT SUPERVISOR shop shirt. It's made of shoddy material, has widely varying panel gaps, and strangely for a garment, does not start on cold, wet mornings. Bidding starts at $50.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/07/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    Ah, AMC. One notch stranger than MoPar.


    But please, y'all, don't harshly judge these poor refugees from the Isle of Misfit Cars. They're orphans. They need good homes and people who can appreciate them for their own weird goodness.


    If I win the lottery, Murilee, I'll send you one of these cars every day, thereby removing all my rivals from contention.

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    Image of junkman junkman
    03/07/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    Competition at the Concours d'Ignorance is about to get a lot tougher...
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    Image of WilliamG. WilliamG.
    03/07/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    Looking at that gallery, I suddenly understand why AMC went under.
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    03/07/09

    @WilliamG.: I get that same feeling when I look at Chrysler's current line-up.
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    Image of WilliamG. WilliamG.
    03/07/09

    @FromaBuick6: Well, now that you mention it...
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/07/09

    @WilliamG.: Sebring/Avenger AWD. 'Nuff said.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/07/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    Hot damn, I could all kinds of Mirthmobile out one of them Pacers. I'd rock that, hard.
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    Image of SeanKHotay SeanKHotay
    03/07/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    It's not a real AMC collection without a Jeep let alone without at least a CJ5 and an SJ Wagoneer/Cherokee...
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    03/07/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    OMG, I just misread the tip credit as going to "Goatrape." I have way too vivid an imagination for mistakes like that!
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/07/09

    @Leeeeena: That's why you got heartclicked yesterday, you know.
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    Image of UDMan UDMan
    03/07/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    He had a thing for odd cars, just look at this thing that will be included with all these AMC's
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/07/09

    @UDMan: I saw that too. As far as I'm concerned that is the coolest variation of the Grenada platform.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/07/09

    @UDMan: Wait, is that a Versailles? I've never seen one of those... if I did, it probably never registered.
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    Image of UDMan UDMan
    03/08/09

    @Foozy Ploosh Room: Why yes it is a Versailles, the Mk II version, with the roof line extended by ASC, so that the back window would have almost the same upright position as the 1st gen Seville.
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    03/07/09

    In reply to 52 Low-Mile AMCs To Go Under The Gavel, We Stagger Back In Awe
    Health problems? More like mental health problems.
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