The second-generation AMC Javelin was called the “Humpster” for its enormously arched front fenders. According to Hemmings, in 1971—after designing the two-seater AMX and the first-gen Javelin in the ’60s on the Rambler American platform (in an effort to “catch up to” Ford’s Mustang)—AMC nixed the AMX model and…
At the height of the muscle car wars in 1969, car companies were doing some new and interesting things in order to…
For 1971 AMC's Javelin was completely redesigned inside and out. Already a radical departure from AMC's…
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust…
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AMC may be long gone, and Fiat owns the Jeep brand nowadays, but classic AMC ads will never die!
In 1973 the Endangered Species Act became law. Here's a car that would make the list. It's Nice Price or Crack Pipe…
For reasons that no doubt made sense at the time, the utterly hopeless Cord triumphed over the absolutely…
During the same junkyard expedition that brought us the Hippie Tercel, I ran across this forlorn '73 AMC Javelin.…
Jalopnik readers- or at least the readers who bother to vote in our polls- have decreed that they'd be crazy enough…
This ad, though entertaining, is a little puzzling. Was AMC trying to convince potential Javelin buyers that the…
Richard Dreyfuss isn't exactly the first actor we think of when we think "street tough." But apparently, AMC thought…
For Google's sake, that may well be the longest headline we've ever written. This blogging crap is ridiculously…
Criminy. We so want one of these. Even if the seller talks about "carberaters," "tacks," "gages," and "distributor…
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