How about a brand new '79 AMC AMX??

[gm4ever]

austin.craigslist.org/cto/2289202615.html - 2K miles on it. Now that's FUNNY!

[EP429]

Awesome!

[96pushrodford]

barrett jackson car !

[65stang]

That is something very cool.

[gm4ever]

Got some more info on this car. AMC's crack me up.

From the seller:

1979 AMC AMX with 2,182 actual one owner miles, and of course a story... When was the last time you saw a 79 AMX?? Back in the day, you could put a dime in a gumball machine and get a Camaro or Mustang, but you seldom saw one of these little Hot Rods, and with its 304 V-8 and four speed, it was about as peppy a ride as you could buy in 1979.

This car was given to a young man as a graduation present. He passed away shortly afterwards and the family kept the car covered in a heated garage for the next 28 years.

His dad and brother pulled it out and waxed it, armour-alled the tires, (including the backside and the tread), and drove it around the block a few times over the years. It is literally a new car.

I have had low mileage cars before, but never one as untouched as this one. It has never been rained on. The paint hasn't been all polished off, the decals are bright and shiny, the interior still has a new smell.

The origional white lettered tires are still like new and not cracked. It still has the glue on the window from the window sticker, which is still with it along with all of the original paperwork from new, ($6,812 out the door).

It is still sporting it's last inspection sticker from 1981 with 1872 miles showing.

I installed a new battery and fuel pump, fresh gas, changed all of the fluids, and it runs and drives like a new 1979 AMX.

It needs to find a good home, preferably a museum where it could be enjoyed by many.

Here are some more pics from the day it was pulled from storage:

[gm4ever]

I helped my buddy Laird re-build a '79 AMC Pacer wagon. I'm not sure how innovative AMC was, but they sure were odd, and made parts from all makes work together. The Pacer has a Chrysler transmission, GM steering column and alternator, Ford ignition module, GM dome light, GM power steering pump, and on and on.



That Pacer is a fun, but odd car. It has large front seats and lots of room up front. Tons of headroom and elbowroom, and with such a short wheelbase it has a really tight turning circle. The rear seat however sits between the rear wheels, so it's not wide at all, and ends up folded down most of the time.



The glass area is amazing, but the doors are shorter than the glass itself, so the windows will not fully roll down into the doors. On his 79 the grab handles to close the doors are mounted to the top of the doors to hide the fact that the window is not down all the way. Also the passenger side door is longer than the driver's side door. That was done to ease entry into the back seat, and also to encourage people to get in the back from the sidewalk, not the street. Ha!



When we found the car it was headed for the scrapper. The engine was shot. We found a low-mile 258 I-6 in an '81 Spirit and put it in the Pacer. That engine has proven tough, we put that in 10 years ago and it's still running great. Soon after the engine replacement, the transmission started slipping, and was re-built. Next the bearings in the rear axle started growling, and that was swapped, along with the rear leaf springs, since the rear had sagged since new.



The only repair still not tackled is the steering rack, which leaks, just not badly. We keep adding fluid to it as needed. Oh and the interior door handles were made of cheap pot metal and snap off all the time. We are always watching Ebay and looking in salvage yards for door handles. Ha!


It was an interesting car to work on!







I think the main thing that killed AMC was lack of develolpment of it's cars. The Eagle was a super idea, but was built on a car that had started life as a Hornet 10 years before. And it seems like into the 80's, rather than come up with new AMC cars, AMC relied on little Renaults, which were flat HORRIBLE cars. AMC pumped money into the Jeep line, but let it's own cars go. I mean come on, an '88 Eagle wagon looks like an '81 Eagle wagon, and many parts will interchage with a 1970 Hornet. The cars were OLD. Chrysler bought AMC for the Jeep line and because AMC had a recently modernized factory that Chrysler wanted, period.



The sad thing is right at the end, AMC came out with the Premier, which was a good looking and modern car. It did have a lot of Renault in it, but it looked good, American boxy styling, not French-odd, like the Renault Medallion introduced just before it.



With the merger the AMC Premier became the Eagle Premier and the Dodge Monoco, and was left to itself until the LH Chrysler cars came out, after which the Eagle name was slowly phased out.



My 2-cents.



-Mike

[65stang]

I didn't know all those things about AMC. You learn something new every day.