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Barry Goldwater's AMX and Final Anecdotes

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American Time Capsule: Abandoned Dealership Collier Motors AMC Has 200+ Classic Cars! (FULL TOUR)

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Robbie reveals a 1969 AMX that previously belonged to Barry Goldwater, a prominent Republican politician. He describes the car's customized features, including Recaro seats, a Momo steering wheel, and VDO gauges. He shares a unique story about Goldwater driving this specific AMX through the White House gates to meet President Nixon, a moment captured in an HBO documentary called 'Goldwater on Goldwater: Mr. Conservative.'

Goal: Discover the historical significance of Barry Goldwater's AMX

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Ferraris and Maseratis. They hand-built those. And they also designed Fiats and Alfa Romeos and uh maybe even Lamborghinis. I'm not sure, but They designed those cool Coke machines at Five Guys now. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah, you see the Pininfarina badge on there? Okay, yeah. Even the uh Cadillac Allante was designed by Pininfarina. That galaxy is cool, but I think that's Poppy Red. Oh, really? Yeah. That's one of the cars that actually was abandoned here from the body man. Um Yeah, that's a really cool car. a Edelbrock aluminum intake on it. Somebody's taken the valve covers off of it, but uh we have uh there's a '63 Impala here. Um '63 Impala. It's got the same front clip of the GTX, but it's a Sport Satellite Wagon. Oh, that's cool. That same grill is in a GTX. Uh got some Rebels. These two are Rebels. That was before the Matador. These Rebels were before the Matador. Um In fact, the '70 Rebel, which is what this is, they made a sports car uh muscle car called a Rebel Machine. We had one. I sent it down to Florida. We took actually delivered it to Florida. That is a '70 '70s Thunderbird that they used to have a I I used to like these cars. In fact, they made a Heritage Edition with a little uh padded landau vinyl top on it. Um always liked those, that Heritage Edition. But uh there's another Jeep Cherokee. These guys were out uh, BFG All-Terrain, best tire ever. What's that? You got the white letter BFG's on there. Well, uh, these guys took it out to Busco Beach and were out playing in the in the dirt out there and on the hills and, uh, had a little mechanical trouble when we were going back home, so I saw them stop there and I offered to buy the car right They didn't even have to take it home. I told them we'd buy it right here. So, these guys broke down and you just bought the car and took it. What was wrong with it? I don't I don't know. We, uh, we just brought it here and we're going to sell it, so, uh, I I'm going to let whoever buys it worry about what's wrong with it. Um, that's what we, we, uh, we always like niche cars, um, unusual cars cuz AMC in itself was a sort of a niche. What was the tin building used for? rented it to a cabinet maker and he had his cabinet business out here. Really? Um, there is actually a '67 Rambler Rebel two-door, I mean, a convertible in there that's been in there since the mid '80s. Hadn't been outside since 1984, so. This is a Nash-Healey here. This is a parts car. I needed I bought a car that didn't have the correct…

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