Why is AMC AMX the best ?
The AMX started when American Motors recruited Dick Teague in 1959 as its assistant design director.
Three years later,Automotive Styling Vice President and AMC, started a new era. Teague's task was to transform US Motors into a more competitive, broad-ranging company with the Big Three (Ford, GM, and Chrysler) from being a small business car manufacturer.In the end, perhaps nothing would have changed the fate of AMC, but the number-four car manufacturer of America managed for a brief period in the late 1960s to bump heads with the Big Three and give the AMX and the Javelin a run for the money.
In the 1960s, America Motors needed only a little attention in the showrooms for the younger "in the crowd." In January 1966, American Motors unveiled the AMX concept at the Cobo Hall convention of the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers). The AMX was a non-functional fiberglass concept car with a two-door sports coupe with rear.
The AMX began with drawings by several artists (approximately 20 full-time employees). Bill Mitchell constructed the wood platform for the clay model from there and his men at the woodshop. The next step was to design and place the clay on the right surfaces. Chuck Mashigan 's Advanced Studio lead clay modeler, was in charge of the Terre working.The reception for the public was excellent, but they wanted to see a real AMX running. Two weeks in Mashigan, Italy, were responsible for the start-up of the car.
As early as October 1965, Dick Teague began his correspondence with the Vignale people. They were aware of what AMC might want, but they didn't act until the last minute to build the metal car. Everyone knew that American Motors had to pony cars to compete with the Mustang and Camaro with the faint-hearted success of Marlin. However, the public that American Motors also worked on a 2-door sports coupe.
The AMC Management knew that AMX needed more help than the Javelin after all, Mustangs and Comaros had sold hotcakes. Work on American Motors' manufacturing pony car began with the Rogue and later became the Javelin in 1965. The idea behind Project IV was to show the public and the bankers that the AMC is an innovator (as money is always tight). The image creator for the youth market, project IV, was to be used by marketing planners to tap AMX and Javelin.There were also tiny jumping chairs to use if the "Rambleseat" did not exist. AMC, of course, knew from the beginning that it was impossible, for safety reasons, to build the cars with a rumbling seat.
For money savings, AMC made a two-seater sports cut from the clay Javelin manufacturing model and only changed the grill, hood, glass door, quarter glass, and roofline through various quarter panels. In different studios, the AMX II, the Javelin, and both the AMX show car and the production AMX. The heavy-tone model was carefully transferred to Mashigan 's advanced studio to save on only half of the clay model time and money.
Bear in mind, while it all went on, the instruments panel, door panels, seats, and the rest of the interior designing the clay, were drawn and manufactured by Jim Alexander, Bub Bristow, Bill St Clair, Alex Cyers, and Jim Pappas. AMC engineers played an important role both inside and outside in the design of the entire car. Although AMX was a real two-seater, an honest American sports car, sales were never so high as AMC expected, and after only three years and a production run of 19 134 from 1968 to 1970. The AMX had been the main component of the Ford, GM, and Mopar competition. The name AMX was returned in 1977 as an option on AMC Hornet in a somewhat less than glorious recovery. In Concord in 1978, AMX became an option. After the event, the Autodynamics of Troy, Michigan, made a single AMX Turbo out of the house.
It was the lightest and fastest as a two-seater and won many races throughout America, in the quarter-mile race tracks, and the race tracks of the 20 AMC staff led by Jim Alexander, Team AMX. Craig and Lee Breedlove also established a total of 106 speed and endurance records, to say nothing of the times when the local bad boy Fords, Chevrolets, and Mopards cleaned the few AMX cars located in the neighborhood.In various automotive television shows and books and magazines around the world, the original AMX with two seats receives well-deserved recognition. The AMX was featured in car calendars, on collector cards, in die-cast models of various sizes. The AMX was short but unforgettable.