AMC entered Javelin in SCCA’s Trans-Am series for production-based cars. By 1967 the series was a battleground, with factory teams from Ford, GM and Chrysler fighting it out for the ...

AMC’s underdog status as a small manufacturer only made the AMC Javelin more of a standout in Trans Am racing. The 1970 Javelin SST Trans Am Edition celebrates that status.

In 1970, AMC was in the middle of the muscle car race both on and off the track. Both the Javelin and the two-seat AMX received a substantial one-year-only facelift that added an air of muscle to ...

That same year, AMC built two special-edition Javelin SSTs to homologate its Trans-Am participation--the Trans Am and the Mark Donohue. The Trans Am's equipment included the 390 V-8, a four-speed ...

The AMC Javelin could run from 0 to 60 mph in 5.7 seconds The AMC Javelin could sprint through the quarter mile in 14.6 seconds The rarest Javelin is the 1970 SST Trans Am Editions, of which only ...

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 ...

Pierre Cardin was a visionary fashion designer who saw the potential in partnerships and licensing—witness the 1972–1973 AMC Javelin, a funky-cool trendsetter.

There’s a 1970 AMC Javelin Trans Am, said to be one of 100, and a 1970 AMC Rebel The Machine. It’s apparently one of 1,000, with the optional tricolor paint scheme and a tuned-up 6.4-liter ...

For 1973, you could officially get a Pierre Cardin Javelin AMX. A total of 4,152 were built over the two model years. AMC’s next fashion special was the Matador coupe, but the automaker tapped ...

The AMC Javelin 401 was simply too fast. Only 132 cars were ever built for the Alabama Public Safety Department, and the vehicles had a rough life (catching ‘shine-runners wasn’t a white ...

According to the previous owner, the 1968 AMC Javelin SST has a small block V8 400 in it (initially a V8 290) and didn’t come with a title. It had been sitting for 25 years and ran when parked.

The Penske/Donohue team would snare the title for AMC in ’71 in the next-generation Javelin. It was red, white and blue, too, but the 100 copies of the 1970 SST were the only tricolor Javelins ...