In 1970, two very different American compact cars tried to answer the same question: how to keep drivers from defecting to small imports without asking them to give up Detroit comfort and attitude.

For those who want something a little different from the usual Detroit Three muscle-car fare, this 1970 AMC Javelin SST Trans Am Edition will be part of an upcoming Mecum auction in Dallas, scheduled ...

As the car company with the practical reputation of being the car for the human race, American Motors seemed ill-equipped to respond to the performance revolution of the 1960s, and even less likely to ...

The late 1960s and early 1970s significantly impacted American performance car history. It was the muscle car era. Every automaker worked hard to reel in the benefits of the market’s hunger for fast ...

American Motors Corp. was formed in 1954 by the merger of Rambler, Nash and Hudson. By the 1960s Nash and Hudson were gone, and to most American buyers Rambler meant dowdy, compact cars. In the ...

The AMC Javelin doesn't get the same amount of attention as its pony car contemporaries, but this 1970 AMC Javelin Mark Donohue Edition recently featured on Jay Leno's Garage shows why it should. The ...

AMC was never the big-name manufacturer that it aspired to be, but still managed to develop some production models that became iconic ...

The year 1991 started off as a pretty good one for 25-year-old AMC fanatic Dave Goodwin. After four years of toil on his 1970 AM Javelin SST Mark Donohue Edition project, the potent pony car was ...

Chad has been a muscle car and classic truck lover since he could walk. The classic vehicles from the '60s and '70s are the best in his eyes, but he is more than willing to give the new technology a ...

IF YOU WERE THE FACTORY RACE team for a company named American Motors, how would you paint your race cars? In all-American red, white and blue, of course. And if you were a company named American ...