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The AMC Gremlin X was an unlikely muscle-era experiment

The AMC Gremlin X was never meant to stand shoulder to shoulder with big-block Chevelles or Hemi Mopars, yet it became one of the strangest muscle-era experiments to reach American showrooms. Built ...
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This AMC model blurred the line between economy and muscle

The AMC Gremlin arrived as a practical subcompact, yet in the right specification it behaved like a scaled down muscle car.
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This AMC Gremlin Could Beat 454 Corvettes Through The Quarter Mile

The year is 1972. You go to your Chevy dealer and shovel over $6,000 or so for a Corvette with the hottest engine available: The LS5 454 big block. Sure, it's down to 270 horsepower, 31 less than a ...
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Parents Offered Him a New Charger; He Chose a 1973 AMC Gremlin X, and Still Has It

AMC never built cars for the faint of heart. Whether you called it weird, bold, or ahead of its time, the Gremlin was a shot across the bow of Detroit's subcompact scene. And in 1973, the Gremlin X ...
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1-of-Zero 1972 AMC Gremlin X Hides 401 Easter Eggs and a 4-Speed, Odometer Reads 9k Miles

American Motors Corporation was the biggest independent carmaker in the seventies, which is to say it was the other American car company at the time that mattered. And sometimes, it actually kicked ...
Motor Trend

Small Blunders: 1971 AMC Gremlin X, 1973 Chevrolet Vega GT, and 1972 Ford Pinto

[This story originally appeared in the Fall 2010 issue of MotorTrend Classic] A big, nasty storm struck the American automotive market in 1959. It washed some 615,131 imported cars ashore, breaching ...