AMC Engine Durability and How to Acquire Parts

a car more than 30 days, just get rid of it. Well, Daddy didn't have that philosophy and he did we didn't run a salvage yard either. So, we didn't sell parts off of cars at the time. So, uh now we will sell before we crush them we will let people get parts off of them, but uh you know, some of them are sold and some of them are uh won't have any value later, but somebody told me uh 20 years ago, 30 years ago, 20 years ago, said, "You got a gold mine here, but it's going to slowly turn into a lead mine." And they but even the lead mine has some value, so uh Four-wheel drive car, too. I see that. Yeah. Yeah, let me just tell you a little bit about AMC. In '64, well, back way back in Nash, they had a little bit of trouble with their engines at at one time, just way early on. And so, they tried to pattern their engines to be very durable. So they patterned their engines off of Rolls-Royce's engines. Really? Yeah, and they were uh they had seven main bearings when some Chevrolets and stuff had three main bearings. They had seven main bearings in between each piston. They were fully counterbalanced in between each throw. And it had full oiling. Everything was oiled by pressure. Some old Chevrolets they had a little thing that would splash oil up on something depending on it and then it would be spraying off to the side and it this it wouldn't be splashing anything. AMC was pressured by the government to come up with a cheaper uh more efficient car. So they had to improvise and buy uh four-cylinder motors. Huh? It's really nice on the inside. This is a this has the Pontiac Iron Duke four-cylinder in it. Oh, that's cool. It's uh that's why AMC had to they first bought a Porsche Audi engine in for say a '77 Gremlin. But this uh they went with a Pontiac Iron Duke after that and that's what's in this and I got two or three other cars that have Pon- Pontiac Iron Duke. But you can even see some uh some Jeep CJs that have Pontiac Iron Duke in it. I did not know that. Are these are Are these are four-wheel drive or they selectable or are they four-wheel all the time? the year. Some of them are full full-time and some of them you can select them. It just depends on the year. Now that's pretty cool. We like we like four-wheel drive Yeah. stuff. Uh-huh. I didn't know that this existed till I close that. is the this is a sport version with the They also had a You don't You don't have to worry about that. I want to keep it nice. This was a '79 AMX Spoiler. Uh they uh the AMX…