Remember the Javelin, the Gremlin, the AMX ?

According to the latest edition of Hot Rod magazine, AMC will rise up from the ashes, opening one manufacturing plant in Kenosha Wisconsin and another somewhere in SoCal. Their plan is to build an exclusive line of vehicles to compete with the likes of the Challenger, Camaro and Mustang.

Ole news to some ? Possibly, but this is first I've heard of an AMC ressurrection !

Kickoff is for April 1st which may lead one to believe, " is this just one of those things that make you go, Hmmmmm ? "

Just my Dos Centavos !

 

i thought they crushed them all

 

When I see it i'll believe it! I actually owned a 1972 amc Javelin with a pierre cardin interior! it was a hot and beautiful car! Chrysler bought AMC and I really don't think they'll be making any other cars...? Lets wait and see, you know they did start to make more Delorians (DmC) from the left over parts laying around! Ya never know maybe a gremlin will be roaming the streets soon!

 

More like hmmmmmmm, April Fool's Day.

 

Ask +fireamx. If anyone knows, he will.

 

Just those "wild and crazy guys" at Hot Rod Magazine having fun in the April Fools day issue.
To bad it's all been done before. But I've never heard anybody ever call Hot Rod Magzine original.

 

Yeah, thats kinda what I figure. I wouldn't mind seeing a new line model Javelin or AMX ! Shades of yesteryear !

Just my Dos Centavos !

 

Heh. A dead division of ChryslerCo launching a car to compete with the challenger? Like that isn't a dead giveaway.

 

Wouldnt that be great! My Dad had a Javelin it was cool And My best friend had 3 AMX (390 with posi. 2 seater) cause he wrecked two Now that would give camaro some comp.

 

Kenosha, Wisconsin!

Home of the Former American Motors Corporation
The Rambler, Nash, Kelvinator, Jeep, etc etc

(BNA - "The Kenosha Cadillac"! )

My Home Town!

SF

 

 

Thanks FP I enjoyed that , that Metropolitian was kinda Cute in it's Day!

Remember the Song: "Beep, Beep" (his Horn went Beep Beep Beep)
(The Rambler ( Metropolitian) & the Caddy, from the 50's I think)

Great Song & Words, I'll find them & post!

SF

 

Here it is:

Here is the Song on Youtube, Enjoy 1 or Both:


(Anyone Here Old enough to Remember it? )

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yUAszi-PHps

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yIta2FBFh8w


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Nash Metropolitan/Beep, Beep! Memorabilia
The Playmates, "Beep Beep"
(chorus)
Beep beep (sound of horn - beep beep!)
Beep beep (beep beep)
His horn went beep beep beep (beep beep)
While riding in my Cadillac
What to my surprise
A little Nash Rambler was following me
About one-third my size
The guy must have wanted to pass me out
As he kept on tooting his horn (beep beep)
I'll show him that a Cadillac
Is not a car to scorn

(chorus)

I pushed my foot down to the floor
To give the guy the shake
But the little Nash Rambler stayed right behind
He still had on his brake
He must have thought his car had more guts
As he kept on tooting his horn (beep beep)
I'll show him that a Cadillac
Is not a car to scorn

(chorus)

My car went in to passing gear
And we took off with gust
And soon we were doing ninety
Must have left him in the dust
When I peeked in the mirror of my car
I couldn't believe my eyes
The little Nash Rambler was right behind
You'd think that guy could fly
(beep beep)
Now we're doing a hundred and ten
It certainly was a race
For a Rambler to pass a Caddy
Would be a big disgrace
The guy must have wanted to pass me out
As he kept on tooting his horn
I'll show him that a Cadillac
Is not a car to scorn

(beep beep)

Now we're doing a hundred and twenty
As fast as I could go
The Rambler pulled alongside of me
As if we were going slow
The fellow rolled his window down
And yelled for me to hear
"Hey buddy how can I get this car
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Lets not forget that it was Walter P Chrysler that basically saved Nash from going out iof business in the 30's or 40's? Basically he was responsible to save that company. Who'd of thunk it!

 

A Brief History of American Motors

American Motors was in the beginning stages back in 1878 when Thomas B. Jeffrey built and sold Rambler bicycles in Chicago. He was the first of the three key players of the companies that created American Motors in 1954.
The other two were Charles Nash and Joseph L. Hudson.
Charles Nash started Nash Motors in 1916
He along with David Buick started building automobiles in 1903.
Two years later he headed Buick but Oakland Motor Company, Olds Motor Works
and General Motors Trucks.
In 1912 he became president of General Motors.
In 1916 he purchased Thomas B Jeffrey's company, in Kenosha and changed the name to the Nash Motors.
The next year the first Nash was built.
During the First World War he became the largest producer of trucks in the USA. In 1919 the company bought half interest in the Seaman Body Corp.
During the 1920 s he continued to expand, buying LaFayett Motor Corp. and the Mitchell Motor car Company.
By 1928 Nash Motors production exceeded 138,000 cars.
The years 1935 and 1936 brought new spirit to the automotive industry. Nash offered its "sealed-in" engine in 1935, an arrangement that had the intake manifold case into the block.
In 1936 Nash acquired full ownership of the Seaman Body Corp.
In 1938, Nash introduced the first "conditioned air" heating and ventilating system.
In 1940, Nash again scooped its competitors with the "600" series, unit-bodied car which pioneered mass-produced unit construction
At the age of 72 he directed the merger of Nash and Kelvinator who's president George W Mason became president of the new company, Nash-Kelvinator and Nash became chairman of the board.
He served in this position until his death in 1948
Thomas B. Jeffrey built and sold Rambler bicycles in Chicago from 1878 to 1900. He was one of America's first men interested in automobiles in the late 19th century, and in 1897, he built himself a motorcar.
In 1900 Jeffrey bought a plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he planned to manufacture automobiles on a large scale. This plant is where the Rambler started its live. Jeffrey died in 1910, and his son Charles took over.
Jeffrey had brought out a four-wheel-drive "Quad" truck in 1911, and this proved very popular with foreign governments for military use During World War I.
The Hudson Motor Car Company, founded in 1909 and building its first cars in 1910, when Joseph L. Hudson and seven business associates began producing a motorcar called the Hudson.
J.L. Hudson died in 1912 and Roy D. Chapin headed the firm.
He stayed with Hudson until his death in 1936.
During the First World War, Hudson became the world's largest manufacturer of six-cylinder cars. Jeffrey (soon to be Nash), became the world's largest producer of trucks.
In 1917 Hudson organized the Essex Motor Car Company, which from 1919 until 1932 built light, spirited models.
In the early years of the depression Hudson developed the long-lived Hudson Super Six and straight-eight engines.
During the Second World War both Nash and Hudson were busy in the nation's defense effort. It wasn't until 1948 and 1949 that Hudson and Nash brought out new designs. Hudson's famous "step-down" unibody and big-bore Six made their appearance in 1948. Nash brought out its "Airflyte" models the next year.
By 1950 the name Rambler meant a new small car in 1950. It marked the dawn of our present compact era.
The Nash-Healey, a forerunner of today's sports models, was brought out in 1951.
In the same year Hudson brought out the thrifty Pacemaker and peppy Hornet.
In 1952 the Hudson Jet made its appearance.
The merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motorcar Company created American Motors in 1954.
One of AMC's first projects was the Nash Metropolitan the Austin-engined, British-built cars sold over 90,000 until 1962 with over 90,000 being sold.
The names Hudson and Nash finally disappeared in 1957.
All models from that point on called Rambler.
The popular Rambler American, was introduced in 1958. In the very early sixties, AMC started having its cars assembled in foreign plants - New Zealand and Australia, the Middle East, South America, Mexico, South Africa and Belgium all had AMC-assembling plants, and the Taiwanese Police were even outfitted with Ramblers.
American Motors lasted thirty years. Then, poor product planning such as the seven-year lack of a four-cylinder engine for the Gremlin and millions of dollars on development money wasted on poorly conceived models lineup ruined the future for AMC. They never recovered.
By 1987 a trail of red ink followed behind a stumbling and eviscerated company, and Chrysler Motors purchased it for a fire-sale price.

 

My friends late 70's (78 I think) has a factory Volkswagon motor in it !!

 

My father had the 4 wheeled drive eagle station wagon, it had an oldsmobile 6 cylinder engine and the thing ran for about 200,000 miles! It was the ugliest thing on the road but it always got us around!

 

We have already seen the new version of the AMX -



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Ok.......I'll bite, which model would that be ?

 

AMC pacer. 'cept uglier.