"American Motors Corporation (
AMC; sometimes referred to as
American Motors) was an American automobile manufacturing company formed by the
merger of
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and
Hudson Motor Car Company on 1 May 1954. At the time, it was the largest corporate merger in U.S. history."
"AMC purchased
Kaiser's
Jeep utility vehicle operations in 1970 to complement its existing passenger car business. Beginning in the early 1970s,"
1977 was the first year for the crysler Jeep models.
You could wank into a AMC dealer in 1969 and buy a AMX 2 seat sports car classed as a muscle car, or the Javline a bit longer with a rear seat. MFG 1968 to 1970 and later redesigned 1971 thru 1974
At one time you could have a choice of the AMX, Javlin, Gremlin X, Hornet SC X or a Pacer X.
My mother worked for AMC at a plastics plant, if you had a AMC product you could take a broken part into work and walk out that evening with a brand spanking replacement as part of your AMC owner ship deal.
My brother owned a 1976 Jeep Cherokee cheef the first year for the tricked out 2 door wagoneer platform. I owned a 1977 CJ 5 but wanted a hard top so sold it and bought a CJ7 with hard top.
After owning rhe 258 inline 6 I was not overly inpressed with the 304 V8.
My oldest sister had a Pacer X a nice rideing roomy car and beat the hell out of the at the time girls friends Vega.
By 1977 the only NON AMC family owned product was my 1974 POS Ford 250 4x4.
Al