No doubt in my mind 1968 to 70 AMXs were AMCs finest hour. And no longer are they forgotten about either!. I always liked em and never forgot about em !.

'"Lock, stock and differential" There will never be another Bud Lindemann

@zxtenn

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah i will be 65 in a few months and watched this show as a young Teen, must have been 14 or 15-- 'go for broke super cars' thats funny

@andyharman3022

3 жыл бұрын

"Lock, stock, and 4-barrel" would have worked better. Bud really missed one there.

@paktype

2 ай бұрын

One way ticket to Jollyland

134 foot stop from 60 with bias ply tires and no antilock or discs on the rear is not bad.

@MrCarguy2

3 жыл бұрын

With Ford brakes!

@jonathanlawson4667

3 жыл бұрын

Really good but those cars are light

@jonathanlawson4667

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrCarguy2 yeah crossbreed for sure

@richsackett3423

3 жыл бұрын

Few today realize how difficult it is to drive bias ply tires hard.

@stephendavidbailey2743

3 жыл бұрын

@@richsackett3423 I have often wondered how the latest Corvette on 670-15 bias ply whitewalls would fare against a C2 fuelie on modern tires.

My Dad was an AMC fan. We had a 60s Rambler, but moved up to the beautiful brand new blue '72 Ambassador Station Wagon. Then ordered a '74 Ambassador 4 door absolutely loaded ... except for the 304-2 barrel. Wonderful times. As a kid at the dealership, I'd sit inside the 401 Javelins and the AMX models in the showroom as Mom and Dad did the paperwork. AMC sure did their own thing. We drove the blue Ambassador wagon across the country in the summer of '72 ... the classic California road trip from Indianapolis.

When I was a kid my dad took me to the American Motors dealership to get a new car. There was a beautiful AMX in the showroom for about thirty-five hundred bucks. It might as well have been a million bucks we ended up leaving with a 68 Rambler American.

@richsackett3423

3 жыл бұрын

We had a mint green 68 American. Even as a small kid, I remember being impressed by its "basic family transportation" vibe.

"So ring the bell Quasimodo - American Motors has a winner!" Gotta love Bud Lindemann for being a literary gearhead with a good turn of the words.

Liked his playboy bunny line. Lol. Pretty car. 6.3 sec at 60 mph was FAST for that era

@TheOzthewiz

4 жыл бұрын

A Kawasaki "Mach 3"-H1 @ 0 --- 60 in 4.0seconds was considered QUICK !

@tskraj3190

3 жыл бұрын

Compared to the 69' 428 Cobra Jet Mustang Mach 1 doing it in 5.9 sec it was very impressive at the time.

@tskraj3190

3 жыл бұрын

@DR X Yep. The 390s and 401s were beasts. I really would like to see Fiat re-release some of the AMC models like the Javelin. I would be happy if they brought back the rear wheel drive Gremlin.

@mosesberkowitz3298

3 жыл бұрын

You want a Fiat Gremlin? You’re a brave man....

amc had some very cool muscle cars back then . amx, rebel machine and hurst sc rambler . im a mopar guy but id love a 68 amx 390 four speed in big bad green .

@tskraj3190

3 жыл бұрын

I really think they should bring back the AMC models even if they have to do it under the Dodge name.

Easily one of the most underappreciated muscle cars. The AMX did pretty much everything well. In my personal opinion, it was also the best looking design AMC offered. The javelin was an eye grabber, in the same way as, say a train wreck would be, but the AMX was just clean and sporty.

One of the best musclecars of all time. If I had one of these and a 70 Buick GSX Stage 1 in my garage I could die happy!

@TheOzthewiz

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe an Olds "442" added to that collection, would make my day!

7/2024: Good Day From The Future! I remember when they first came out. Loved them. I've always been a car guy. I was 16 then. Great Times for Great Cars. I bought a 1969 GTX, Auto and all the options from the first owner in 1971. Thanks & Best Regards.

Way back when men spoke like men. When Americans knew how to build cars and America was truly great. Oh how things have changed.

@chrismorin7161

4 жыл бұрын

Art Vandelay art your racism is showing...

@spook5756

4 жыл бұрын

@DR X some folks are just ate up with the dumbass.

@spook5756

4 жыл бұрын

You make me wonder if you were actually around back then. Or maybe you had some of those rose colored glasses.

@spook5756

4 жыл бұрын

@Art Vandelay you can fuck up a one man rock fight. Smh

@codyb1909

3 жыл бұрын

stfu no one cares about your opinion

Wish I could go back in time and have a smoke break with Bud.

I'm 1985 my dad gave me his with 47,000 miles, I drove it until 1991 with 180,000 miles, it would need a Master cylinder every year, the door windows would fall out or there's tracks and into the doors every two years, the head liner fell down on the freeway, lots of oil leaking from rear seal, you had to take the engine out to repair,transmission went out at 65,000 miles but hey this car made me a good mechanic, thanks

@bigsid54

4 жыл бұрын

AMC build quality was poor.

@sockshandle

3 жыл бұрын

bigsid54 no it wasn’t if you want poor build quality look at GM with their Vega and ford with the unsafe Pinto

@tskraj3190

3 жыл бұрын

@@sockshandle I'm a GM guy and even I can agree with that.

My father bought brand new a 68 Javelin with a 290 and buckets and console automatic (my mother couldn't drive a stick), I was 4 years old and remember going to the dealership and seeing those BADASS AMX posters, that Is a great looking fucking car!

@TheOzthewiz

4 жыл бұрын

When I first saw a '69 AMX, I was "stoked" !

3000 lbs. is really light. Amazing.

@TheOzthewiz

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, weighs LESS than my 2.0L '13 Focus !!

@rjmzz430

3 жыл бұрын

It's a misconception that 60s and 70s rolling iron was heavy most mid size muscle tipped the scales at 3000 to 3500 lbs give or take. My 72 nova reggie says 2996 lbs ! 6cyl long gone w/ frt disc conversion .

@scdevon

2 жыл бұрын

@@rjmzz430 - 425 lb ft was a nice number in a 3000 lb car. Fun to drive regardless of 1/4 mile times or acceleration run times.

Had a 69 AMX 500 special once. Big bad green, 390 with factory 4speed and Hurst quick shift. Rebuilt the engine pretty much stock except for roller rockers, stainless steel valves, headers and a Holley 600 cfm dual feed carb. Way too much horsepower for the weight. Had to start off in second gear to get any kind of traction 😁

@thomassnapp1341

4 жыл бұрын

Did you have the "go" package?

@marinegunny826

4 жыл бұрын

@@thomassnapp1341 Yep! It was my second car. 1st was my Dad's 73 Cutlass Supreme 2 door. Inherited that in 81 at 14. Four years later, sold the Olds and bought the AMX off a guy who was hurting for money. Sweet car!

@thomassnapp1341

4 жыл бұрын

@@marinegunny826 That was an awesome car Jon. One of my favorites!

@marinegunny826

4 жыл бұрын

@@thomassnapp1341 Thanks, Thomas. Mine too. Unfortunately I wiped it out one night, almost killed myself in the process. Young and dumb. If the Lord ever blesses me with another one, I promise to take better care of it 😁

@marinegunny826

4 жыл бұрын

@DR X Yeah, and then wheelie bars. Didn't want to modify the rear end though. The guy who owned it before me did some suspension work on it and it handled turns like you wouldn't believe. I installed ladder bars and put cinder blocks in the trunk which helped a bit

Remember kids, this car is a one-way trip to Jollyland.

I was a nine year old kid in 1969 and remember well the "Hip" and "Groovy" but cringe-worthy expressions like, "Swinger", and "Sock it to me!", Both of which are strangely and uncomfortably used in this video by announcer, Gordon "Bud" Lindemann, who was a pioneer in motor sports broadcasting. Then there were terms like, "Far Out!", *"Gimme the skinny!" (*a request for information) and the origins of "Ya' know", which ended nearly every sentence uttered by a young person back in that "Psychedelic" era found it's genesis in the "Mod" Generation. But, what an awesome automobile the AMX, Javelin was! Dick Teague was an excellent automotive engineer and stylist. He held automotive design positions at General Motors, Packard, and Chrysler before becoming Vice President of Design for American Motors Corporation (AMC) He was a member of the "There is no replacement for displacement" club, who's members believed that the larger the engine the better the performance; all mechanical marvels, not a computer in sight. He had a term for the styling of the 'Javelin', what he termed as, "The Wet T-shirt Look": "Voluptuous curves with nary a hint of fat." Compared to the 400-plus horse power which automotive engineers are now able to prod from a four cylinder, the 315-HP the engineers in the '60's teased out of this 390-ci (6.4 liter) V8 seem rather sickly, but it was pretty darn good for the time. I always wonder what the young people of today think of our now Classic Automobiles from the 60's... they must seem like dinosaurs to them!

@NoName-tz5ji

4 жыл бұрын

Until they floor it and feel the low end grunt putting them back in the seat.

@TheOzthewiz

4 жыл бұрын

In '69, this car was "BOSS" !!

@steveb7310

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah the big thirsty hogs made lots of something so hard to come by in today’s turbocharged fartmakers...low end TORQUE.

@NoName-tz5ji

4 жыл бұрын

Steve B Thirsty 😂 let’s see the turbo charged fart cans pull that kind of weight off the line. These fart cans tend to lose most of thier so called efficiency as soon as work is required anyway because no matter what these newbies want , a gallon of fuel only has so many BTU’s.

@markcantemail8018

3 жыл бұрын

@@NoName-tz5ji Ha ha you said it Brad . I had a 74 chevy van and again it was just a Van not a performance Car . But it had a 350 with a 4 bbl Rochester quadrajet Carb . My Father had just bought 4 new tires for his work Van before it went off the road . We took the New Tires and remounted them on the Chevy . My Older Brother would Smoke the Tires and get my old Man screaming . Ha ha he was pissed , My Older Brother could do that to People . Just a Van With a stock motor that really could ruin Tires . With a Table that folded down to a Bed , small chemical toiler bathroom , ice Box and 2 inch shag carpeting . Ha ha those were the Days !

Some people don’t seem to realize the Avanti is a Studebaker, not AMC.

Always loved this car! Except for that huge gas pipe on the c pillar....

@joedude9954

4 жыл бұрын

That's a prototype car.

@672egalaxie6

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, that never made it to production. It probably would've been slightly recessed, had it. But who knows, only Teague.

@JeffinTD

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I had a 68. Filler was behind the rear plate.

Great classic video upload..thanks..AMC made some great vehicles...That AMX was Bad to Bone..I owned a 1972-74 AMC Javelin with a 360 auto...My best friend in 1982 put a high end custom paint on her...Wow it was sexy and tough looking afterwardd...that 360 was a great engine...Not like that 390...but smooth and snappy...Seems like Yesterday when I was cruising in my Javelin...they were good times in America

the 1960's gave us some great cars for the available tech of the time. Lot of style however. Still the golden age of American Cars. All the boys in Vietnam could not wait to buy a new super car as soon as they got home.

I would have definitely bought one. RIP AMC

The J-Turn at 0:58 was very Nice

This guy's a trip.

R.I.P. AMC, You are surely missed.... Hey Fiat!! Take notes and bring back the Javelin!!!

The tires really sucked back then.

@FOH3663

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed! But you don't know what you don't know ...

@regalgn1

3 жыл бұрын

@@FOH3663 This is true. There were some better tires if you ran slicks but not from the factory. Bias ply street tires was about it They needed drag radicals LoL

@FOH3663

3 жыл бұрын

@The94GTC "Cheater Slicks" wow! I haven't heard that term in years!

@FOH3663

3 жыл бұрын

@The94GTC Yes, ... likewise!

@richsackett3423

3 жыл бұрын

Every time I see film of drivers bouncing around a racetrack on bias ply tires, I'm reminded of their testicular magnificence.

That was a tight reverse 180

this cat's so hip he wears a medallion with his turtleneck

@672egalaxie6

3 жыл бұрын

He's a real gone daddy...

I love that hokey sounding background music !

0-60 she's one quick car! Not too shabby in the 1/4 either. Braking, same deal. Solid performer for a fair $.

Sorry if i'm re-posting but I knew Dennis & Donnie Nottingham in the 70's & the AMX was running as the "Sheriff of Nottingham"! Dennis had a Camaro with a worked 6 cylinder that ran really hard! They ran some really badass stuff! & were really cool guys!

This was an underrated muscle car

@BuzzLOLOL

2 жыл бұрын

Factory held the performance back on purpose...

@skeltonknaggs1600

2 жыл бұрын

@Speedy rapacki That's what I mean by underrated

@skeltonknaggs1600

2 жыл бұрын

@Speedy rapacki Look!! Get lost!! You're acting like a nagging wife!!

@skeltonknaggs1600

2 жыл бұрын

@Speedy rapacki Why don't you just say what you want to say in one gulp, and be done with it?

"So ring the bell quasimodo..."

Beautiful car , Teague was something !!!

I need a bikini model dancing with this music.

They don't do much modulating of the pedals in these tests do they? Lol. Always just nail the gas or break and see what happens. I'm sure they would get better numbers with a different driving style. He even mentions the huge wheel spin during acceleration. How about not burning the tires as much. I think the test driver just had fun. I'm jealous!!

@brentmonkhouse6638

6 жыл бұрын

greg totorean the test driver actually commented on one of these videos, he puts up links for proof. Obviously an older guy now but KZread is a small world lol

@anthonybarnett6828

6 жыл бұрын

And Different tired than stock.

69 seems to be the best year for all models, Wow!!!!

I've had three of them in the early 70's. Posstrack rear end with the 4 speed plus racket pinion steering. It hauled ass I wreck all of them lol

@richsackett3423

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome I guess?: Someone with decent taste in cars who can't drive a lick.

Gotta love the reverse 180

315 hp @4,600 rpm and 425 ft lbs of torque.. FAST ::::::::::::

@BuzzLOLOL

7 жыл бұрын

0-60 6.3 sec.... headers...

@scdevon

7 жыл бұрын

425 lb. ft. is a big number in a small lightweight car like this. Must have been a fun car to drive and something different, too.

@paulmetza7162

6 жыл бұрын

Machine Gun Nest wkekd

AMC was the champion of chop-em-up engineering: The AMX was a cut-down Javelin. The Gremlin was a cut-down Hornet.

@richsackett3423

3 жыл бұрын

Literally the smartest comment here.

@scdevon

2 жыл бұрын

AMC was a dinosaur company even in 1969. Literally the product of a Nash-Kelvinator / Hudson Motors merger. They did well with what they had to work with, though.

Bud sure was a hip, happening, swinging cat back in the day.

Pretty good go for the show and take a look at the influences in The Styling it made for a Smart lookin car!Hey George Romney it wasn't the Rambler I learned to drive in..

Motor week before there was a motor week

2:57, you know when you hear bongos, shit's getting serious..

The AMX was a good looking car.

The background tune was also used by ford in the maverick grabber intro ad.

Lock, stock and differential...There was only 1 Bud !

Sure miss my 70 AMX

Jazzy set of spokes. 🤣

Guy I know had a 68 AMX 343 cid built! 4spd think 355 rear car was pretty quick made around 400hp!

This little honey swings the mojo like little Mary sunshine bringing her bag of wooden nickels to a rained out Sunday school picnic on Monday.

What a handsome looking car. 😍

I remember when I was 3 my ol man brought home a 79 cj7 golden eagle...it had a 304 and it was beat to all hell and back but those and motors were and are bullet proof

"A one way ticket to jollyland..." Priceless! I think he stole that from Jack Webb...lol

the j turn.....f'in awesome

Always have like the AMC muscle offerings...something different. But the delivery and script writing is pure 60s corn. :) And why are they driving off-road? Groovy.

@TheOzthewiz

4 жыл бұрын

"far out"

@rudolphguarnacci197

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheOzthewiz can you dig it?

Saw one of these beat a new GTO Judge at the strip back in 69.

"Sock it to me???" - Richard M. Nixon

What was up with the little off-road foray?

I would love to trade my '66 Classic Cross Country wagon for one of these.

Who cared about stopping we just wanted to go go go..👍🏼👍🏼

"Am-mix" LOL!

4:18 What song are they using in the background?

the two seat amx was built for direct competition with the corvette in sales.

@tommccallan8802

Жыл бұрын

Yes sir

Could've done without the Herb Alpert Trumpet music, but the car was badass. The 4 speed was better than the automatic. They should've tested that car.

Back when "wallop" meant something.

Suddenly at 4:10 alien spacecraft appears in the upper right corner.

What ever happened to Bud Lindimann where was this show filmed?

The guy that buys this car. Is going to wonder why his tires wore out so quick!

Where's a bikini clad Goldy Hawn doing some modeling? I've misplaced my K-Tel lp of "The Best of Bud Lindemann"

Am I the only one that notices the add on engine sounds?

Never seen one with the flip up gas cap.

@ramblerdave1339

5 ай бұрын

It looks like Grattan Raceway, near Grand Rapids, Michigan.

It's Sock It To Me time! Kinda now, kinda WOW!

Didn't Victor Hugo drive one of these?

Has anyone ever seen another AMX with dual quick-fill fuel fillers on the C-pillars?

@chadhaire1711

2 жыл бұрын

No---they all rusted away....junk

@ramblerdave1339

5 ай бұрын

Pre-production prototype, duh.

Is that a Ford 390 FE motor? No, caps in the wrong spot. Special built 390?

@richsackett3423

3 жыл бұрын

No. AMC engine also as 304, 360, and 401.

Discontinued shortly after...

0-45 in 4.1 and 0-60 in 6.3? That makes no sense. And a 14.5 quarter? That's just talking out of one's butthole. The weight and the power tells me that this car could reach 60 in 7.5-8.0 seconds, and it probably ran a 15.5 quarter at around 85 mph. My dad almost bought one of these in 1970 and this amazes me since he was such a GM fan. He wound up buying a Volkswagen Type 1, which was another cool car, especially since he ordered the Porsche Sportomatic semi-automatic transmission. I have no idea at all why he had a problem with manual transmissions in 1970, but then again he eventually bought a Bimini Beige '77 Coupe de Ville, which is basically a pink 4500 pound car with a flaccid 7.0 liter V8 engine....with all of 180 hp.

@TheOzthewiz

4 жыл бұрын

So, 425lb-ft of "tire shredding" torque is NOT enough to move a 3000lb car, 0 -- 60 in 6.3 seconds? Your calculations DO NOT compute!!

@hoodagooboy5981

4 жыл бұрын

You don't know what you are talking about. My 3,200 lb 340 Duster could do 0-60 in 7.5 seconds. The AMX has more power and less weight.

@Flies2FLL

3 жыл бұрын

@@hoodagooboy5981 And your 340 Duster [what year?] could probably run a low to mid 15 in the quarter mile. The notion that the '60's cars were fast is nonsense; My mom's Passat has a 120 cubic inch engine and is just as fast.

@sockshandle

3 жыл бұрын

Flies2FLL at least the engines didn’t have to lug around a car heavier than 3,000 pounds and had some semblance of low end torque unlike the Passats turbo I4 and likely more reliable too and engines at the time were inefficient but produced lots of mechanical torque

@joedude9954

3 жыл бұрын

Talki out your butt man.

I took the complete drive line out of a wrecked AMX and stuffed it into a AMC Hornet Hatchback.. fun project with great results... Until it was Stolen.😮😂

I dont remember 2 gas caps ?

This car is more than 315 hp.

@chadhaire1711

2 жыл бұрын

more like 260 net Gomer

@ramblerdave1339

5 ай бұрын

They were underrated (or, everyone else were overated). They did have seriously restrictive exhaust manifolds, before 1970, though. In 1970 with Ram air, they were rated at 340 hp, and 325 without.

That gas cap is huge, looks like a giant zit hanging off

@bmepdoc9675

Жыл бұрын

RIP John Candy : "I'm Buck Melanoma. Moley Russell's wart. Not her wart. Not her wart! I'm... I'm the wart. She's my tumor."

There's a manly announcer

@charlies.5777

3 жыл бұрын

SERIOUSLY, he was Mike Rowe before there was a Mike Rowe!! Dude has a classic narrator's voice!!👍

5:17 alien spaceship seems agitated

Why was it taken off-road lol?

Another muscle car they test with an auto 'box... yeah, that's giving it the best shot at 0-60 huh.

@chadhaire1711

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry Goober....most automatics were quicker...and they sure are now......you dont drive much do you.

14 5 was as fast as 67 gto 389

@lklk3384

6 жыл бұрын

"67 GTO was a 400, but yeah...

@sockshandle

3 жыл бұрын

@DR X and yet people thought AMC cars couldn't compete with the ford GM And Chrysler products

THE AMX and the javelin were nicer looking cars then the mustang my opinion

Squeeze the steering wheel horn goes off

Lets drive it thru a plowed field.....lol

Needs more oversteer, imo.

facebook.com/groups/131633717350604/

OFF ROADER TOO===LMFAO

This great little car deserves a way better review than this crap. Car sounds are added, music is awful, and stupid narration.

This seemed almost like a promotion, not a true review.