American Motors Corporation spent the muscle car era fighting with fewer resources than its Detroit rivals, yet it managed to ...

American Motors Corporation never had the budget or marketing muscle of its Detroit rivals, yet it managed to field some of the most deceptively light V8 performance cars of the late 1960s and early ...

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.

The American Motors Corporation (AMC) is likely best remembered as the plucky underdog competitor to the Big Three in the late 1960s and 1970s, with cars like the Hornet, Javelin, Matador, and ...

AMC motors have always been stuck in an alternate universe by virtue of their physical stature. The 290 V-8 is externally the same size as the 390 and a full 100 ci smaller. Even the 401 shares the ...

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 ...

Want sick power from a basically stock engine? Try a 401. Using factoryheads on the portly 4.170-inch bore, you can build torque where itcounts and still make good power on top with a reasonable cam, ...

Although it ceased being an independent carmaker 35 years ago, AMC lives on in muscle car enthusiasts' hearts for building impressive rides that offered more bang for the buck than any of Detroit's ...