Bruce Canepa racing the 1970 AMC Javelin at the 2013 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Take a ride along with Bruce Canepa inside of the 1970 AMC Javelin. Watch as he laps the famous Laguna Seca and passes by numerous historic race cars.
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My buddies used to laugh and tease me about my 63 Rambler Ambassador and my interest in the Javelins. But when AMC took 2nd place in Trans Am with the Javelin in 1970 all that changed. I then purchased a 70 AMX 360 4-speed (most fun car ever) and cheered AMC on to victories in 71 and 72. I had the last laugh.
and they lost 70 by a single race
I always loved the Javelins back in the day. Great looking cars.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
different for sure..great looking?
@@jrex3575yea great looking
My mon worked for a AMC dealer in Sarasota Fla. She drove a Metallic Blue 1970 Javelin SST with the 360 cid and automatic, my dad drove a 1968 yellow Javelin with the 258 cid engine with 3 on the floor and I had a 1969 Ambassador with the 343 cid engine ( but later on I got a 1974 Gremlin X with the Levi interior). I have great love for AMC cars.
I’m a Mopar man but I always root for my AMC brothers and have a 1970 Javelin in my stable with a non standard 401.
Thanks Bruce for keeping AMC alive!
The drivers get old , but their cars stay young. Now i drive the Scalextric 1/32 slot cars of the Javelin, Camaro, Cougar, Challenger, Cuda and Mustang.
My friend and racer owned a 69 z 28 bought new and made into a gt spec scca
class car for racing. He
later restored in javelin
# 6 tribute car like this one.
The sound, the power, the feeling of these beasts
of a car is awesome.
My parents had a Pierre Cardin Edition AMX, wish it could have got passed down to me
I can't think of an era where there were prettier looking race cars than 1969-1970 Trans Am.
What a great era for Motorsport, love those AMC ‘s !
Great driving moving up the field both the 71 and yours.
The late great mark donohue was my favorite driver. Went to Watkins Glen and he so impressed me . Peter revson another popular driver at the time . Both winners !!
could of put bruce in any of those cars and he would of won. i cant believe how realistic video games are to the real thing now. look forward to seeing bruce at 2021 races.
you know its not a game right?
OMG my favorite car ! I had a 72 & 73 Javelin's ! I would give anything for a ride in both of them ! AMC FOREVER !
In 68 and 69 under Ronny Kaplan the paint jobs were red/white/blue on one car and blue/white/red on the other. Easier to keep track of on the track when pasding the pits. Kaplan came up with a short deck AMC block but could not get it past the SCCA tech inspectors. The aluminum blocks used for Indy/Champ cars had a shorter block deck height. Primarily to shorten the rod and pushrod lengths. That motor had a really short stroke. One of the most powerful engines ever to run in Indy/Champ cars. Held the record for absolute fastest lap ever in Indy/Champ for years. Set at Texas Motor Speedway.
Best racing series of all time! Former owner of 69 and 70 Boss 302.
One great driver Bruce is.
Sweet sounding engine .
I miss AMC company there had some decent cars I wish they were still in business
The jokes about Rambler's slowed a bit after they built those things, I recall...
Ohhhh yeeeaaahh....the snickering on the Rambler Boys stopped real quick when these guys spoiled a few party's.
During t hy e 68 season they didn't have any wins but did rack up a lot of seconds. And this was being down on power and not having a dual quad or cowl induction setup until very late in the season. In 69 they pushed the power too much and the engines oiling system bit them in the ass. Hard. 68 and 69 the engines were 290s bored to 3.858 versus the 3.75 stock. Try over boring a SBC or SBF that much. In 70 the SCCA changed the rules to allow engines over 305 CID to be destroked to meet the limit. Hence the Challenger and Cuda using destroked 340s. Pontiac on the other hand had a short deck 303 with a 2.840 stroke with a 4.125 bore. AMC used the 360 that was 4.08 x 2.916.
There's a channel were somebody is build a 79 Spirit with a 304 as a track car. They bonded the 304 .060 over. Factory data says you can go .158 over stock iirc.
@@mpetersen6 Yes, my 70 AMX had an oil problem when I would race down canyon roads keeping the revs up under hard braking and turning my oil light might come on and the lifters would clank. Off the throttle and stuff the clutch. Never broke but was kinda hairy. I believe AMC was allowed external oil drainbacks in 70. Traco also drilled some new oil passages in the block. In 71 I think everyone in Trans Am was allowed dry sump oil systems which cured the problem.
@@beyond_the_infinite2098
The oiling problem on AMC motors stems from the oil being duck through a passage in the block and after being sent through the filter it was then split to run tangent to the tappet bores. The passenger side tappet bore also fed the cam and crank bearings. At sustained high RPMs #4 and 5 main bearing could get starved for oil. The Gen II/III AMCs and the Buick Big Block have very similiar oiling systems. One fix for the oil flow to the rear main bearings is to run an extra oil line from the front of the block where the oil goes to the tappet bores to a point farther back on the oil galley. I've wondered if it would be possible to drill an extra set of feed lines from the drivers side oilgalley to the mains if the hole intersepts the cam bore using new cam bearing will block the hole sending all of the oil to the mains. The upper bearing shells would need extra feed holes for this feed line. This in my mind would solve all of the crank and rod oiling problems in a performance build.
Here in mu country, like as a fool (jacerce pendejo) works ...
Is this running a 304?
In 68 and 69 the Javelins used 290s bored .104 over. From 70 on the engines were 360 Special Sevice Blocks destroked to meet the displacement limit. The SSBs were cast with thicker main bearing webs allowing for 4 bolt mains. These blocks could be bored for 343/360 or 390/401. The Cranks were destroked to 2.916 from 3.440.
@@mpetersen6 now THAT is an answer thx!
Just a walk in the park
They have a clone/tribute of this vehicle on consignment at Classic Auto Mall in Morgantown PA!
I painted my Purple Sears Stingray Blue, White, and Red to match the AMXs. I put a new Red white and blue Banana Sear to Match.
Everyone got tired while he got faster.
Very cool thanks for letting us see this I have a sad story about a 70 javilin for another day thanks 🏁🤔😎🤗
How Utterly PATHETIC - no one got over 60 mph !!!
I assume you are joking. I saw well over 120 and mostly 80 to 100
@@vanceharmon3481 a couple little blips around 105 - however - I understand these cars are worth many, many times what they cost in 1970 ...
Awesome videos. It does get a bit tiresome watching this very arrogant rich guy showing off driving his toys. Good for him but actually WTF cares??? I don't
Then go watch your cat videos . This is for men only.
Would love to drive any of these 👍🏼