AMC Antique Vintage Cars: AMC Rambler & AMC Javelin
Posted in : AMC | Mar 15, 2011 | Comments 0
AMC Antique Vintage Cars were considered as one of the powerful muscle cars with their big brawny engines and Ultramatic automatic transmissions. AMC (American Motors Corporation) is an automobile manufacturing company which was found by Hudson Motor Car Company and Nash-Kelvinator Corporation in the year 1954 and in those times, it was the largest automobile manufacturer in United States. In 1954, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation acquired Hudson Motor Car Company to form American Motors, one of the largest automobile producing companies in United States. The company has manufactured and launched some of the most powerful, beautiful, memorable, exciting and inspirational vehicles in the market. The biggest collaboration worth $197,793,366 was one phase of planned megamerger of automobile manufacturers like Hudson, Packard, Nash and Studebaker.
The first production AMC Antique Vintage Cars produced by the company had an excellent design with unique styling. The first compact vehicle manufactured by the company was Jet which was an entry level car in compact segment. There are lots of other vehicles produced by the company such as Concord which is a compact vehicle launched in the year 1978 and was later replaced by Hornet and Matador. It was available in two-door coupe and four-door sedan body styles along with three-door hatchback and four-door station wagon. It was a compact vehicle great combination and image of value, luxury and class. The first sportscar manufactured and revealed by AMC was AMX equipped with 258 cubic inch OHV six-cylinder engine which is good for pumping out 196 pound feet of torque at 2000 rpm and 114 horsepower at 3600 rpm. There are some standard features which include dual-barrel carburetor, aluminium wheels, custom built suspension and tuned exhaust.

AMC Antique Vintage Cars like AMC Rambler and AMC Javelin were considered as one of the most powerful and compact vehicles.
AMC Rambler is an automobile manufactured and launched by American Motors Corporation in the year 1958 and was built till three generations such as from 1958 till 1960, 1961 till 1963 and 1964 till 1969. The first Rambler models were initially produced for United States and Canadian markets and were one of the affordably priced compact cars. It was one of the powerful muscle cars equipped with 6.4 liter V8 engine with four-wheel drive system.
The AMC Rambler was later powered by more powerful engine called 250cid V8 with 114 inch of wheelbase. This powerful engine was good for producing 220 horsepower.
AMC Javelin was basically a pony car produced by American Motors Corporation in the year 1967 and was available in two-door hardtop body style with high-performance or economical versions.
The AMC Javelin was initially debuted in the year 1967 and featured some standard equipment like shoulder harness for front seats, light exterior side marker lights, front seat headrests and two-piece seatbelt.
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