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The front (particularly the hood/headlights) of a first-gen Compass looks a good deal like an AMC Pacer. The D-pillar looks like the C-pillar of a Gremlin.
AMC IS ALIVE
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Does this include the grenading transmissions and such that plagued old Jeeps when they were owned by AMC?
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I’m not sure modern FCA Jeep is *that much* of a patch reliability-wise in general, and Chrysler has something of a legend in that area for undersized FWD drivetrains made of potato, so “yes”?
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THE PAST IS ALIVE
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But you can’t shove a big V8 into a compass and make it do wheelies
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Where there’s a will there’s a way.
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THE IMPOSSIBLE IS REAL
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I may have to find time to photoshop the rear doors off the jeep tonight
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It’s tough being an old AMC car designer, but that’s exactly what happened here.
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You could schedule transmission rebuilds based on mileage in the old S Body vans. Had that happen on two NS vans my grandmother owned at one time.
Although it was allegedly possible to get an original S Body with the 2.5 Turbo version of the K engine with a manual transmission... Although I’m more partial to the Toyota Previa S/C...
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Why not?
I mean, nobody has, but I firmly believe in the right -nay, obligation- of our human species to eventually hellcat all the things, Compass included.
![]() 10/09/2017 at 10:06 |
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You can get close to that VIA swapping in a LS4.
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Be sure to add the stripe too!
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Yes. An old AMC car designer happened all over that car.
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The Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger, and Dodge Challenger are built on a platform based off of the AMC designed Eagle Premier platform.
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...mashed up with some Benz E-class stuff when redeveloped, IIRC. Which arguably makes it more AMC-ish (random mash-ups of Euro/US parts), not less.
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Also Dodge Magnum and AMC Hornet Sportabout:
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never noticed it before.