When my co-producers and I first announced that we were making a documentary about the history of American Motors Corporation, a few of our fellow AMC enthusiasts voiced a surprising complaint: Once ...

Muscle cars were so common then that many of them sat on dealership lots for weeks or months; many of those same cars, like ...

T he Golden Age of American Muscle produced some big-time rock stars, like the Chevrolet Chevelle, the Dodge Charger, and, of ...

now made 285 hp and 390 lb-ft. AMC retained the 360 cubic inch V8 as an optional engine in the Javelin and Javelin AMX throughout the second-generation Javelin's run, which ended in 1974.

AMC claimed a modest 340 horsepower from these motors — 25 horsepower more than a stock 390 cubic inch V8 ... costly and silly to produce both the Javelin and the AMX, two cars that ...

The big, 4.165-inch bores of the 390 were topped by newly developed cylinder heads ... The efficient lines of the 1970 AMC Javelin, understated compared to the brawny, flared curves of the final ...

The SST was a sportier version boasting a 390-cubic-inch V-8 making 325 ... Like most of its rivals, AMC entered the Javelin in the SCCA Trans Am series, which reached the height of its popularity ...

Among the rarest of the American muscle cars that went racing in the early Seventies — cars including the Camaro Z/28 and the Boss 302 Mustang — the 1970 AMC Trans Am Javelin SST may be the ...

Craigslist There’s a 1970 AMC Javelin Trans Am ... with the optional tricolor paint scheme and a tuned-up 6.4-liter (390 cubic-inch) V8. Capping off the collection are a pair of 1969 Hurst ...

Built from 1967 to 1974, the AMC Javelin is an almost forgotten pony ... The range-topping, 390-cubic-inch (6.4-liter) V8 rated at 315 horsepower was potent enough to give its Detroit competitors ...