In place of the typical inline-six or rare 304 AMC V-8 powerplant, this tube-chassis machine is powered by an AMC 401 V-8 with a high-rose single-plane intake and a 950CFM four-barrel.

Calling the Gremlin "contraception" for New Jersey's young men in the 1970s and a car for the "broke ignorant", the pair's tour around Manhattan in the dreadful hatchback is cut short by something ...