West Coast All AMC Show with AMX III
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Lance Lambert travels to Irwindale, CA to an AMC show and an in-depth look at the AMX III. This short excerpt from a longer program shows some of the cars and the AMX 3. Music by Susan and the Surftones. More info at vintagevehicletv.com
That AMX/3 is a gorgeous vehicle. I really miss my '70 Javelin, my only muscle car, with its 390, Borg T-10 close-ratio trans, and enough torque that it twisted the rear leaf springs enough for the car to crouch before slingshotting off in a cloud of rubber smoke. I rebuilt the engine and it was putting out roughly 425 horsepower and 425 ft/lbs of torque. It stuck to the ground like it was on tracks, and I'd slide passengers from side to side like a pinball in the back seat, before they could hold on. 'Twas my most favorite car of all time.
Jeff Teague died in 2016. Jeff always promoted his dad Richard's dream car and the historical nature of the AMX 3 . Thanks Jeff and RIP.
Wonder what happened to the car after Jeff died?
@@motorcitymanman7711
He gave it to me
@@earthlingjohn
U wish.
Anyone know how Jeff passed? He was pretty young?
My Aunt Louise was a Executive Secretary at the AMC Headquarters on Plymouth Rd in Detroit.....I grew up about 4 miles from there at 9051 Vaughan St, house is boarded up and abandoned now, saw it online.
@@motorcitymanman7711
Dsm straight i wish
@@motorcitymanman7711 he did? That’s crazy... my mom dated him in highschool
Amazing vehicle for it's time, just as beautiful today as what it was in 1970. Wow just awesome!
this car is better looking than the Pantera..... too bad AMC couldn't put it into production.
I would tend to agree. Though I like the look of the Pantera. And would be happy with both. And yes, AMC should've built a limited run of them.
pantera had heating issues alot but amc been never heard of engineering failure.
The shape sort-of made it onto the 1974 Matador Coupe, but to me it didn't work as well on that bigger car, and certainly not with the federal bumpers.
Was a Pantera copy.....
@@ckryses3962 they couldn't afford to make mistakes.
Kind of reminds me of the Mach 5
Speed racer what is my favorite show when I was a kid
Yes, indeed!!!
Mach a Go Go!!!
Wow! Such a gorgeous automobile...what a shame that it was never produced. Thanks for sharing.
Richard Teague was a design genius! Love the interview with his son. ❤
i really wonder how a amc would look like these days if it still existed
+Chowbizful I remember some jerks, on April fools day a few years back, produced concept drawings of I think the Gremlin, pacer, ambassador, and i believe the spirit? and announced the return of AMC the next year. I was so excited and read on, but then remembered it was april fools day as I finished the article... The drawings were so nice though, let me see if i can find the article
+Chowbizful forums.finalgear.com/automotive-news/the-return-of-amc-26043/
+Yashin Shinikake great share thanks for the link! man those are great sketches I'd love to see them back in think they would do well. seems like they were onto something back then loom at all the small cars out today
I saw the Pacer and Gremlin ones I remember that it was not April 1 when I saw it I later found out it was a Apr 1 think
any of those designs could work Today
AMX III broke my jaw !
Had to stop an do an internet search for that two-lever shifter assembly on that AMC Marlin and learned one of the levers controlled a manual overdrive, giving the Marlin 5 forward gears. Very interesting and quite ahead of its time. Always liked AMC cars, especially their Javelin/AMX series and drove a '66 Rambler for a couple years in the early 80s. Easy to work on and nearly indestructible.
That is one really beautiful car ! Love the body lines . It's a shame it was never produced . I'm a Chevy driver myself but I have always had a soft spot for the AMC's . Actually been looking at some Javelins .
1:18 Rambler twin-stick? Sweet! Amazing interview. Interviewer was kind of a dick with the barf-bag comments and I think he realized it rather quickly and just let the guy talk. Imagine your Dad is Richard Teague. How cool is that?
I remember that. 1965 Ambassador all of the go fast goodies for that year.
Stunning! The design timeless. The production AMX was and is one of the best looking pony cars IMO.
Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned
from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the
German Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025
on by reducing petrol stations to only one state operated central gas
station per city. From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be
banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine
and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027
on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any
more...
I'm 66 now, been an AMC fan since seeing my first Javelin as a kid. I owned the 1968, 1970 and 1971 Javelins and the 1968 AMX. Truly excellent cars. The AMX/3 was awesome. I wish it had gone into production.
Just love the corruption of unions. Didn't do much for the workers, but did a whole lot for themselves. Only worked for one company that was union for about 6 months. Saw what a joke it was and left.. This car is amazing.
Well said Dennis, the union organizers are mainly marxists just intent on screwing the companies.
@@justtowatch111 Ya, and you see what politicians back them. Why, it's biden!!! Who could have guessed.
Wow, Detomaso openly jacked this design to make the Pantera! 😆
That's what *ALL* these companies deserve for showing us badass concepts, then manufacturing something that looks *_nothing_* like the concept!😡
Giotto Bizzarrini was/is an absolute genius and is still alive, he is 95 years old... (2021}
AMC made great cars and the AMX and the Javelin we awsome
AMC had many great designs even some designs that had ideas that did not catch on to much later it make you wonder what would AMC cars look like Today?
canadiancatgreen probably a cross between Chrysler and Toyota
Hot Rod did a design study of AMC with that in mind. www.hotrod.com/articles/hrdp-0804-amc-concept-cars/
So just abrupt stop at 6:51? No part 2?
ruclips.net/video/MhwmTsBYgEQ/видео.html
Super nice production. I really like this stuff.
That is one of the most stunningly good looking vehicles I have ever seen.
AMC 3!!!!!! Most beautiful car ever built.
Was the AMX 111 the car Mr.President ran Junior over with at the end of Deathrace 2000? Always wondered what that was.
Nope. That was a 'Sterling Nova' kit car. Like the rest of race cars of that film, its based on Volkswagen Beetle mechanicals.
The possibilities. We'll never know
I think that AMC Marlin is a great lookin car, with that long fastback and huge back glass, just needs big block horsepower added to it......
Wasn't Bizzarrini part of this project? Along withAMX1 and AMX2?
Just saw a video where a guy 2 guys I think bought one of these cars and in the video he claims it's the only one in existence. Hmmm...wonder what's up with all that?
I just saw that too I'm wondering the same thing when I found this was a different one
It's a 1978 AMC AMX.
AMX 3 way ahead of it’s time!
When AMC put the AMX name and logo on a souped up Hornet, they lost all credibility!
They were already broke by then. They were scraping the bottom of the parts bin to move poorly built vehicles to anyone, anywhere.
Another factor was the ugly-ass mandated "energy-absorbing" bumpers that started showing up on '73 cars. How could you ever put that on the AMX III?
More idiots in Washington in the DOT. The insurance company lobby 'got to them' and had them mandated. It turned out that those big crappy bumpers caused higher collision repair costs so the insurance companies shot their own foot.
68 amx is alot nicer i should knowwe own 3
My God, is that car gorgeous!
I've got yo believe there's a market for a supercar that looks exactly like this.
Wow!
oh ok Sorry about that I did not know that ok so it was a great car than now I get it thank you and again sorry
AMC didn't make anything bad. They couldn't afford to. The only thing bad about any AMC is the reputation given by sour owners of other makes.
Where are all the gremlins?? LOL!!
cars like that need to be driven....i think its a trailer queen. he needs to have it sent off, ripped apart and databased so we can all have one :D
I can see Dick Teague's hand from the doors back. Similarity to the Pantera in the front.
This AMX/3.... wow! It looks like a Madela fake past extra cool car! But it's a real proto! wow, I was alive back then and this is crazy cool compared to ANYTHING!
I grew up with my family had AMX cars in Florida each brother had one my dad and his brothers. ❤
I live in San Diego and I got. An opportunity the photo Dick Teage 's red MX3 at the San Diego Auto museum in Balboa Park ... I couldn't believe my eyes that the car was a AMX /3 let alone that that car once was Dick Teague's car!!!
Kenosha Cadillacs!
No. Just no. It's almost "pretty", but not quite. Looks disjointed, hunkered down, and the stance is goofy. Front wheel doesn't fit in right in the wheel well. Rear portion of the front wheel well to flared-out, too roomy. Rear portion (after the door) looks like it came from a different car. Kind of a DeThomaso Pantera, but on weed & valium.
Lots of influence that shows on the pantera!
Seen that alaqua amx in person, gorgeous!!
Front of that amx3 looks like speedracers ride
AMC should have produced that AMX III it looked like a Pantera.
The AMX series,the lines on the 68-70 still are as clean as anything coming out of Detroit today,a modern version,would be beautiful.
No they'd wreck it, trying to make it better, with all the pharma and dope in their heads.
Would it bring considerably more than the 71' Hemi cuda convertible 4sp car @ 3.2 million.. Just curious.. cool machine..
The AMX 3 was the only car that that company produced that look good.
Their one hit wonder.👍🏆👍
Everything else by them👎😝👎
O'right...a lot of bla bla bla bla in this video but finally, is it a piece of clay or does it run?
wrong. "3" was a roman numeral III.
AMX III, I think they should have kept it. Stupid > The story of the long lost AMC AMX III ruclips.net/video/xRS31EGEjjo/видео.html
I'm nearly 100% positive there was one of the AMX III prototypes at the San Diego auto museum in the early 90's.
That AMX 3 is definitely a counterpoint to the Pantera. Very similar in design.
Side by side I don't thing it's better looking than the De Tomasso but it's real close....real close...
The body line is cool-good for cars ♪
AMC made some pretty awkward looking cars, but the AMX was a true winner.
man really wish amc couldve had a nice comeback, but now with everything going to electric i think its probably too late unfortunately
Isn't that the AMX III number one over your shoulder at 3:27?..........just sayin' ...........
Does anyone else see Datsun 280zx 79 - 83 taillights in the title picture? Upside down that is.
The union strikes was not what put AMC down, it was the oil price spikes that went across the entire car market. Nobody wanted to buy large cars in that point in time.
@Nicodemus98 The whole thing sounds frustrating, never less what every Ford called it the 2005-2006 GT is more amazing then any of those crap kit GT40 cars.
So which is the correct history? This guy claims his father designed here in the states but all the articles I’m reading state the car(s) was built by two Italians and shipped to the states?
"American" muscle car, designed and built in Italy... in early 70's
I guess globalism had a head start
AMC used to use parts and engines from the big 3 for their cars.
Only in the last year or two. Prior to that they produced their own engines. The 290/304, 343/360. And 390/401 V-8s were all AMC-designed and manufactured.
Too bad AMC had a "Managed Decline" specialist as CEO; Romney.
No George Romney put AMC into debt from day one. MIT'S POP.
I want to see an AMX/3 so bad, I really hope to see one one day.
- DT
Where is this car now? Is it shown?
Iirc, saw somewhere that Dick Teague's son owns it. Could be wrong.
If you have a video with the remaining of that interview, please share it. Very interesting
And Ford bought the look alike Pantera from AMC???
@WAX1138 Nah,not at all likely,greedy corporate profits come before creating style of this kind
I owned an AMX III ...sold it for 800.00 back in the day
His Dad was also Chief Designer of the Packard Motor Car Co as well !
This is a really nice design I wish they made them
It's stunning. AMX/3. What might have been.
my brother own a 1980 amx , and my other brother owns a sx/4, and i own a 1983 amc sports gt !
Had one on display at the San diego auto museum like 30 yrs ago
I think it looks better than a pantera and hits at the Lamborghini miura
Great story on the AMXIII. Very cool.
That AMX 3 kinda reminds me of the coyote car off of Hardcastle and McCormick
Isn't it 7 cars?Number 0 the pushmobile and 6 others?I may be wrong.
AMX3 starts at 2:43, AWESOME content.
That AMX 390 ::::4SP was a mean one....
I've seen the only Pink AMC AMX 390 ever made lol
I love that AMX 3. Might be just the best looking of those low hidden headlight beasts. Sadly it never went into production.
Whoever at AMC decided not to go through with production of this car really dropped the ball. The "what if" questions this car raises are monumental. In my opinion, this is one of the biggest missed opportunities in the history of American car design. This car would have sent prospective buyers to AMC car dealerships in droves. They would have went simply to look at this car and ended up buying something else on the AMC lot. I am assuming that it would have been priced more in the exotic car spectrum and out of the reach of the average driver. But so was the Pantera.
I'd imagine that the AMC would have come in lower than the 1970 cost of a Pantera of $10,295 because it wouldn't have to be shipped to the US from Modena, Italy where all Pantera's came from.
The design trend would likely have affected future AMC's in a positive way, and been even more influential than it was. You can certainly see some characteristics of that profile line in later AMC's, but certainly nothing as dramatic. It really is too bad that this never came to fruition. I think the sports car world missed out on what would likely have been a fantastic car.
I had a AMC jeep 304 v8 it ran until the wheels fell off
That thing is priceless... If only they had produced the AMX III!!!
I need the design schematics, please.
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The blue Javelin at 0:24 reminded me of a Lamborghini Espada.
- DT
This car make me happy in pants.
@veselipastir No Sir
6 were made all are accounted for
My wife's brother's wife's dad has one
AMX II is more beautiful then AMX III
Soo?....
Where's the rest of the video?!
Ya'll run out of "VCR tape"?
... for shame, for Shame.
RAPTOR, Death by
I think you meant VHS tape.
Yes, this was made nearly 20 years ago in DV.
Whole episode is easily found by searching but here’s a link to make it easy for you
ruclips.net/video/MhwmTsBYgEQ/видео.html
Imagine if AMC beat Ferrari at Le Mans.
The Pantera meets Mach 5.
Which was invented first? The Pantera or the AMX III. PLEASE SOMEONE let Me know.
@Narja THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS AWESOME INFO.