The AMC Hornet SC/360 arrived for 1971 as a compact coupe with a serious V8 and a mission to bring muscle car performance to a shrinking, insurance-conscious market. Built in small numbers and ...

For those who want something a little different from the usual Detroit Three muscle-car fare, this 1970 AMC Javelin SST Trans Am Edition will be part of an upcoming Mecum auction in Dallas, scheduled ...

As the car company with the practical reputation of being the car for the human race, American Motors seemed ill-equipped to respond to the performance revolution of the 1960s, and even less likely to ...

The AMC Javelin doesn't get the same amount of attention as its pony car contemporaries, but this 1970 AMC Javelin Mark Donohue Edition recently featured on Jay Leno's Garage shows why it should. The ...

The late 1960s and early 1970s significantly impacted American performance car history. It was the muscle car era. Every automaker worked hard to reel in the benefits of the market’s hunger for fast ...

American Motors Corp. was formed in 1954 by the merger of Rambler, Nash and Hudson. By the 1960s Nash and Hudson were gone, and to most American buyers Rambler meant dowdy, compact cars. In the ...

The arrival of the 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang created a sales phenomenon that has never been rivaled, even to this day. The clamor for the Mustang had other companies scrambling to build their own ponycars ...

Before the Javelin trophies and the Jeep bet rewired Detroit, American Motors built a family sedan with a chip on its shoulder—the Rebel. Born of thrift and stubborn engineering, it became AMC’s ...

It packed a 390ci V8 with 340 hp and ran a 14.4-second quarter mile, rivaling the Dodge Challenger R/T Hemi.

Chad has been a muscle car and classic truck lover since he could walk. The classic vehicles from the '60s and '70s are the best in his eyes, but he is more than willing to give the new technology a ...

IF YOU WERE THE FACTORY RACE team for a company named American Motors, how would you paint your race cars? In all-American red, white and blue, of course. And if you were a company named American ...