The AMC Eagle...

"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko) 11/14/2013 at 17:33 • Filed to: None

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Was raced in Pro Rally. The production cars had an available diesel straight 6, manual transmission, wagon body, wood trim, and brown paint. No wonder it didn't sell well.

lepie > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 11/14/2013 at 17:35

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The more i read and see from AMC, the more respect i get for them. They made such awesome cars. Such a shame.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > lepie 11/14/2013 at 17:38

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And yet Subaru and Mazda get jacked off to. AMC, the Rodney Dangerfield of car companies.

lucky's pepper > lepie 11/14/2013 at 17:42

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Did someone make a comment about awesome AMCs?

lepie > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 11/14/2013 at 17:43

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Well. Subaru and mazda both deserve a lot of praise. There's just something sad about the concept of an unsung hero.

AMC did and made cool stuff. Just a few days ago, there was a post with an AWESOME looking AMC car on oppo. Can't remember the model, but it was a candy/metallic turqoise, had a very long sloping fastback. Beauty!

lepie > lucky's pepper 11/14/2013 at 17:44

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Now that looks like a million dollars to me!

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > lepie 11/14/2013 at 17:46

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Marlin, then Dodge made the charger that looked very similar.

lepie > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 11/14/2013 at 17:48

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I'd have that marlin. Fosho

Leadbull > lepie 11/14/2013 at 17:51

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You might be thinking of the Rambler (AMC, whatever, it depends, blablabla marketing) Marlin ebay ad someone posted.

Much sexy

lepie > Leadbull 11/14/2013 at 17:53

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yeah that's the one! The ebay ad. God, what a gorgeous car!

lucky's pepper > lepie 11/14/2013 at 18:00

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Yep, one of my favorites from that era. For AMC trying to punch above it's weight and for over-the-top appearance of that thing!

lepie > lucky's pepper 11/14/2013 at 18:02

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Trying to find one of these here would be like hunting for unicorns.

ddavidn > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 11/14/2013 at 18:36

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One of the more perfect cars in the world.

AMC/Renauledge > lepie 11/14/2013 at 18:36

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They did, indeed.

The AMC saga, the more you learn, is deeply fascinating. I was huge into AMCs as a teenager (the orange '76 Gremlin pictured is from 1999, the day my 16 year-old ass bought it) and absolutely devoured everything I could find in book form and online about the company.

Their whole history reads like Jalopnik wrote it. And, despite a shoestring budget and ever-encroaching competition from the Big 3, then Europe, then Japan, they squeezed out a ton of solid, competitive, reliable, innovative, and thoroughly interesting metal until Chrysler bought 'em out in 1987.

When Chrysler bought AMC, they discovered just how insanely good and dedicated the personnel "in the bunker" at AMC were. So these guys were assigned to all the major vehicle development projects that led Chrysler's renaissance in the 1990s, making them insanely profitable by the time Daimler-Benz took them over.

Absolutely epic company. And I desperately wish they, along with Packard, were still around. Look 'em up.

By the way, that Gremlin was probably my favorite car out of the 10 I've owned over 14 years.

lepie > AMC/Renauledge 11/14/2013 at 18:39

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Almost no one in europe knows about them. Finding one would be very hard. Kind of a sad story, there. Corporate buyouts never end well ...

Nice car!

AMC/Renauledge > lepie 11/14/2013 at 18:42

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Yeah, they're probably as obscure to Europeans as Rootes/SIMCA/Talbot is to Americans.

lucky's pepper > lepie 11/14/2013 at 18:58

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Where's here? They weren't that rare, though if I remember right the biggest part of the one year only model run didn't have the super-cool red/white/blue color scheme.

lepie > lucky's pepper 11/14/2013 at 19:03

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Belgium

Jayhawk Jake > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 11/14/2013 at 20:27

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Someone in town drives this

The jelly level is smuckers

edit: stop eating my pictures KinjaKinja

Aaron James > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 11/14/2013 at 20:41

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When i was around 12 I had a friend who's mom drove the "wagon body, wood trim, and brown paint" you mention. I always thought it was really cool, most everyone else thought it was an ugly POS.

lucky's pepper > lepie 11/14/2013 at 22:05

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Oh that explains things, but that's how I feel when I drool over Lancia Integrales.

Jeff-God-of-Biscuits > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 11/15/2013 at 08:21

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right now there is one on eBay for about 700, look s to be a solid deal. Any jalops in Boise?

lepie > lucky's pepper 11/15/2013 at 15:01

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Integrales are rare here too, but not "can't own one" rare.