Gremlins, Engine Durability, and AMC's Demise

it with a the 401 motor they made it with a Chrysler 727 bulletproof transmission. Um there's a little Ford XS Escort GT. Look over here uh this Javelin. Let me tell you a little bit about AMXs, okay? AMX first came out it was a came out mid-year '68. They'd already released the Javelins. But the AMX was a two-seater sports car sort of positioned between the uh Corvette and the Camaro. Um two-seater V8, really fast. The weight proportion on the from front to rear was just optimal to drag race with. So, in '68 to '70, it was a two-seater car. But, it shared some body parts with a Javelin. Well, '71 through '4, the AMX package was what they put on a Javelin. It included Now, this is a This is actually a Javelin with an AMX spoiler on it. And door panels and stuff. The AMX package was a fiberglass hood. Some Some of them were fresh air hoods. Has a rear spoiler. Had a 140 mph tick-tock gauge set that had a tachometer and a clock built in. One side has a fluorescent lights in there. It has turned aluminum. You can look through there and see the AMX door panel. Yeah. Uh, they had turned aluminum. This one's been picked over some, but uh, we've had dozens and dozens of Javelins, but we're down to about 12 parts cars now. Uh, yeah, this is just a parts car. Some of the rarest things we had was a state of Alabama in 1971 and '2 purchased from AMC about 120 some state highway patrol Javelins. And they had their Javelins interceptor cars with 401s. And where it says AMX on that spoiler, it said 401s cuz that's they had to fill in those holes. And it also said straight state trooper on the spoiler. That's cool. They all had the uh, they had the Huh? Where they at? We sold them. Yeah. Highball Racing, what's that? Team Highball Racing, they were uh, international uh, road racing team out of Raleigh. But, uh, we used to get posters from AMC when they were right racing these uh, Spirits. They're really pretty paint jobs on these Spirits. And they were in like Nürburgring, uh, Ger- Germany racing. And they were They were a It was a Dennis Shaw. One of the guys that was with him was a guy named Kurt Spenser. And Kurt Spenser. He uh, uh He always was into really fast six-cylinder AMC's. He uh He even went down to Mexico and got some of the four-barrel cast-iron intakes. This was a drag racing car here. Like I said, the AMXs, they hook up really good at the racetrack. In fact, Hurst Corporation prepared 52 of these two-seater AMXs with 390s in them and they specially…