The 1968 AMC AMX arrived as a sharp rebuttal to Detroit convention, a short-wheelbase, two-seat muscle car that treated practicality as optional and personality as mandatory. At a time when big-block ...

Just as there was once an age of giant reptiles some 100-odd million years ago, there was once an age of American automotive giants. Although they may be dinosaurs today, the “Big Three”—General ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

Though overshadowed by Detroit's Big Three, the AMC left its mark on the original muscle car era with some iconic tire-shredders. In 1954, the Hudson Motor Car Company joined forces with the ...

Erik Sherman is an automotive journalist and motorcycle enthusiast. Although he has served and worked all over the world in different capacities, his passions belong to all things automotive. His love ...

AMC offered high-performance cars as early as 1957 (the four-door Rambler Rebel came with nearly 300 horsepower on tap), but the company didn't join the muscle car market until 1968. That's when the ...

In the 1960s, AMC needed a big win with American customers who largely favored cars from the Big Three: GM, Chrysler, and Ford. To get the public more interested in its cars, it decided to think both ...

There must have been something in the water back in 1969, because not only were the Big Three Detroit automakers delivering more horsepower than ever before to the V8-loving summer of love generation, ...

“The car I learned to drive on and that started my infatuation with AMC vehicles was my mother’s 1974 Firecracker Red Hornet X,” says Roscoe native Bud Brick. He also remembers that his mother’s car ...