I purchased a new 73 Hornet Hatchback with 258ci and Auto trans. I drove it for over 70k miles without ever returning to dealership for any type of service. I performed normal scheduled oil changes and lubes for the day, and never had a problem. The person that purchased it as a used vehicle claims that he drove it to over 175K without any repairs except for brakes and tires. To this day I believe it to be the best vehicle I have ever owned.
My cousin bought a Hornet base model new--still had vacuum wipers I recall. Black rubber floor mats over the metal floor pan. I am lovin' your vintage auto ads
I have to say, I wish I had vacuum wipers and weather eye features today. I like base. There was a one owner base Saturn for sale. A young lady was going to buy it until she found out that it has manual crank windows. Fortunately that's exactly why I liked the car and bought it several years ago. I only wish it had cruise control, but it's cheap to operate and changing the plugs is easy. They are right in front and I like simple cars. Less options less problems down the road. Oh, and it gets super milage.
These Hornets were 10 times better than those trouble plagued Ford Pintos and Chevy Vegas.The Hornets were reliable,nice looking and priced right.They chopped off the back and made America's first subcompact Gremlin.I loved the Spirits,Concords and Eagles that followed.I am not a big Pacer fan but they were popular back in the day.I miss AMC,todays cars all look the same,AMC's products always had their own look.You never confused them with a Ford or Chevy.Richard Teague was a stylist second to none. Even his Sportabout wagons looked sharp !
They really didn't just chop off the back of the Hornet to get the Gremlin, the Gremlin was planned and built before other Hornet models even were created. The Sportabout wagon came out in 71, the Hornet Hatchback in 1973. The Gremlin and Hornet were planned and designed from the get go, it wasn't an afterthought. The Sedans were introduced in Fall of 1969 and the Gremlin in April of 1970, a mere 6 months later. AMC's plan was to intrduce a new car ever six months....it didn't end up that way, but almost did.. The entire wheelbase is different and so is the suspension in the rear. The only thing they share is the doors and windshield and the cowl forward.
All the variations were developed from Dick Teague and crew's cool 1965 "Cavalier" concept car which was a four door. The "Sportabout" was developed from that, followed by the "Gremlin', the "Cowboy" pickup prototype and all the others, until 1988. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Cavalier
The sportabout didn't get created or exist until 1971, after the Gremlin. The Gremlin came first ahead of the Sportabout. 25,000 Gremlins were produced before the first Sportabout even existed
AMC was an amazing car company . Very inovative ideas and very much ahead of the curve in styling thanks to Richard Teauge . Took my drivers road test in a 1974 Matador Coupe with the 232 cid Six .
The 258 was a great engine as well . I'm also a big fan of the 3 speed manual trans . Column mounted or floor mounted . I have a 1964 Plymouth Valiant V 200 4 door I bought 30 years ago and it still looks and runs like new . Has the push button A 904 Tourque Flite in it .
This is actual a AMC Dealer Training film. Quite neat to see how many of them survived in some fashion. Many of them thru the late 60s/mid 70s were filmed in one take, and filmed from a trailing...American Motors car.
The 1973 Hornet hatchback was the only year that the hatchback was available with the smaller rear bumper, lower mounted license plate, and exposed gas cap, Before a larger rear bumper was required for crash ratings, the license plate was moved between the tail lights covering the gas cap. You can literally see how the rear bumper doesn't quite fit the mold out of the body for the larger bumper they knew they needed to put on the car in 1974 and forward. Amazing car
My third car was a '73 4-door Hornet - with my CB Radio antenna on the roof, everyone said it looked like a "Narc" car! I had it until it got t-boned by a red light runner 6 years later.
I remember narrator Mason Adams as the editor in the Mary Tyler Moore spinoff "Lou Grant". He had that comforting, "Ward Cleaver" personality. Speaking of cleavers, the clowns weren't such a good idea.....
That's actually not true, sorry, the first year of the Hornet Hatchback was 1973, the same year Chevy offered a Nova Hatchback. It was the last of the body styles introduced on the AMC Hornet/Gremlin platform. 2 and 4 door in 1970 model year, Gremlin on April 1st 1970, then the Sportabout was introduced in 1972 and then the Hatchback style was introduced in 1973
@@OsbornTramain yeah, they were looking at a compact truck (AMC Cowboy) but they only had capacity to introduce one more body style and settled on the hatchback.
There was a form of harmony in this compact car - I wish I had one, either the four-door sedan or the Sportabout wagon, for these were truly good cars, as far as I know.
Cool 70s video, but it stopped in the middle of the front safety bumper demonstration! I've always liked the Hornet. It's such a compact, harmonious design.
Yep, sadly, that's life in the big city. We could restore the color on the film the best we could and only what was left of the film.....the remainder of the film is lost. These uploads are created off the original film, not copied videos.....so....what you see is all that we have.....I'll be uploading a Javelin Film too but it's also not complete and in the next few days, (it willl actually take 48 hours to upload because the file is so large) an AMC Rebel film in absolutely beautiful condition and color from 1967
My 1st car my parents bought me was a 1973 AMC Hornet...it was 1984 and I was 16 yrs old. I would have to spend 15 minutes to get it to start in the winter, and then let it run for 30 minutes so I would freeze to death on my ride to work. Sliding into the front seat on a cold winter morning was like sitting on a block of ice!
My dad traded his allegedly problem plagued 69 Vista Cruiser for a 73 Sportabout in December 72. It had the 360V8 2bbl with the 727 3 speed Trans. My dad hated the big cars of the day and welcomed the smaller proportions of the AMC Hornet and Gremlin models. In Jan 74 he bought a Gremlin with the 258 6 cylinder. I got to drive the Gremlin later and found the handling to be well balanced and sharp. I wish it would have had the v8. AMC built the best looking cars for sure
Ellie and I had one.....Nice car...I pulled a trailer hauling 2000 pounds of coal with it , when we lived in Jackson ohio , living in a house with two coal stoves. New baby ...we kept warm !
One of those songs was also used in an old Electric Company video cartoon--the one where a man brought up his 'bed' but ended it as 'deb'! Then 'deb' became bed!
hornet and the grimlen i was looking for a csr from the early 70s and those were my first choice i ended up buying a 73 comet i wanted something you no longer see on the road im glad i got my comet but old amcs are cool
I bought my first Gremlin a year ago for 450 bucks, the body and interior are done now so it's just some minor engine stuff....can't wait to get this one on the road soon, hopefully, by this Fall. Good luck on the Comet, they are one of my favorites too.....I'll be uploading a Comet commercial tomorrow that's already uploaded, but I've had the film restored and it looks great....keep an eye open for it.
AMC was the first car company to offer these designer series of cars. As always, AMC had to be an innovator and niche player due to there smaller market share. AMC had the Gucci Hornet, Pierre Cardin Javelin, Cassini Matador and other Levi jeeps and cars. The other manufactures, particularly Lincoln jumped on the band wagon.....Lincoln had one requirement, no designer that did work for any other car company could work on their cars...that's why you don't see Gucci Lincoln or Cassini Lincoln but do see Bill Blass, Givenchy an Cartier. Cadillac did work with Gucci later on a Seville model.
Interesting that AMC thought of doing that. Personally, I'd rather have the base upholstery, whatever it be, that Gucci color combo was always a nasty site to me.
Really? I remember the Javelins at the AMC dealer when were picking up our new Hornet, blue with Levi's interior. I did not think our dowdy Hornet looked nearly as good as the sporty Javelins with their bulging fenders. Those Javelin AMXs were especially beautiful.
I only meant the hatch version. Their only real supercar threat was the SC rambler.They so easily could've done a 401 Hornet and didn't. I think HOT ROD got a Hornet 360 4bbl into the 14s though.
"Dowdy"? I don't think the Hornets are "Dowdy", never a word I associated with a Hornet. They are very sporty looking in my mind, SportaBout and hatchback specifically. We owned a new 1975 2 door and with the wheels and options, I thought it was sporty and that was when I was in high school...
Watching this video makes one look at AMC in a different way. They were the first ones to come out with the Gremlin, the Hornet was also a better car than the Maverick, even the Sportabout wagon was something that the Big 3 didn't have in the seventies until the Aspen/Volare wagons in 1976, plus how could we forget the Pacer. Is it any wonder why the LAPD had the Matador as cop cars, just watch Adam 12 reruns. They obviously had more interior room than any other intermediate car at the time, so call them ugly, I prefer them as unique
I've ridden in a Hornet it belonged to my Aunt Lily..interesting '70s film huh??!!!!!..the Hornet was a neat little car, eh??????!!!....getting back to Aunt Lily her Hornet was brown and I don't remember if it was a coupe (2 door) or a sedan (4 door)
They were solid little cars. Too heavy to really be considered economy cars, but compared to the land yachts of the day, no doubt a big improvement. Decent cars for the time, and I think they actually got better through the 70s and early 80s, while the rest of the American cars were getting worse.
I had a 74 Hatchback X - sheet metal was super thin on that and rust was nasty. Interior finishes were super chintzy - that package shelf rattled so bad I took it out. Nice memories as my first car but it was really junky.
you sound like you've had a very different experience than most Hornet Owners, we owned many in our family living in the NE part of the USA with salted roads....we never had issues with rust....but we did get our cars rustproofed.....that was something normal to do in the North East, if you wanted your car to last.
We bought our Hornet hatchback in Omaha, Nebraska in 1973. I can't remember if my dad sprung for Ziebarting, but we never did have rust problems with ours. I learned how to drive in that car. 3spd on the floor, 258, Levi's interior. It was hard to look cool in a Hornet hatchback, but I gave it my best.
One major problem was that the front fenders had no liner. Worse yet was that a large shelf was there above the tire between the monocoque frame and the inside top of the bolted-on fender. Dirt and water collected there and mine rusted thru at three years old! DOH!
I'm surprised that AMC would attach the Hornet name to a compact since the original Hudson Hornet (AMC was formed from a merger between Nash and Hudson) was not a compact.
Customer Loyalty, Rambler, Ambassador, Hornet...all former Nash and Hudson names.....My Great Uncle owned Ambassadors and he owned several Ramblers in the 60's and also a new Hornet in 1970. He was Loyal to AMC. After he died, my Aunt bought a Chevy Chevette, I was shocked! I've got family photos back to the 40's and 30's with Nash's in them.
sadly, because that's all there is, that's the only thing left of the film. Who ever had this film before I purchased it cut it up, it was a much larger film that someone cut up into pieces
Chrysler had a 360 in it's line up.......AMC had a 360 in it's line up too, they were both making a 360 at the same time but they were different engines. When Chrysler Acquired AMC in 1988, AMC's 360 were still in production used in the Jeep Grand Wagoneer and Jeep Pickups, but Chrysler's designed 360 was long gone. So with the deal, again, technically, the AMC 360 was in production when Chrysler acquired AMC. The 258 of AMC was in production by Chrysler until 2004 I think?
not really.....The car became the Concord in 1978, it had a minor body facelift. The Eagle was based on the Concord and due to the higher road clearance for the 4WD system, body cladding including fender flares were added to make the car appear lower. The Hornet evolved into the Eagle and continued thru 1983. The Eagle was marketed separately specifically as an SUV and sold up until the 1988 model year.
I purchased a new 73 Hornet Hatchback with 258ci and Auto trans. I drove it for over 70k miles without ever returning to dealership for any type of service. I performed normal scheduled oil changes and lubes for the day, and never had a problem. The person that purchased it as a used vehicle claims that he drove it to over 175K without any repairs except for brakes and tires. To this day I believe it to be the best vehicle I have ever owned.
My cousin bought a Hornet base model new--still had vacuum wipers I recall. Black rubber floor mats over the metal floor pan. I am lovin' your vintage auto ads
I have to say, I wish I had vacuum wipers and weather eye features today. I like base. There was a one owner base Saturn for sale. A young lady was going to buy it until she found out that it has manual crank windows. Fortunately that's exactly why I liked the car and bought it several years ago. I only wish it had cruise control, but it's cheap to operate and changing the plugs is easy. They are right in front and I like simple cars. Less options less problems down the road. Oh, and it gets super milage.
@@walterweddle7644 Base is always neat to see. Thanks for the reply. Let's hear it for crank windows...
Bought a new '76 Hornet with the big 6.That engine was bullet proof.Very quiet.Wish I kept it longer.
These Hornets were 10 times better than those trouble plagued Ford Pintos and Chevy Vegas.The Hornets were reliable,nice looking and priced right.They chopped off the back and made America's first subcompact Gremlin.I loved the Spirits,Concords and Eagles that followed.I am not a big Pacer fan but they were popular back in the day.I miss AMC,todays cars all look the same,AMC's products always had their own look.You never confused them with a Ford or Chevy.Richard Teague was a stylist second to none. Even his Sportabout wagons looked sharp !
They really didn't just chop off the back of the Hornet to get the Gremlin, the Gremlin was planned and built before other Hornet models even were created. The Sportabout wagon came out in 71, the Hornet Hatchback in 1973. The Gremlin and Hornet were planned and designed from the get go, it wasn't an afterthought. The Sedans were introduced in Fall of 1969 and the Gremlin in April of 1970, a mere 6 months later. AMC's plan was to intrduce a new car ever six months....it didn't end up that way, but almost did.. The entire wheelbase is different and so is the suspension in the rear. The only thing they share is the doors and windshield and the cowl forward.
All the variations were developed from Dick Teague and crew's cool 1965 "Cavalier" concept car which was a four door. The "Sportabout" was developed from that, followed by the "Gremlin', the "Cowboy" pickup prototype and all the others, until 1988. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Cavalier
The sportabout didn't get created or exist until 1971, after the Gremlin. The Gremlin came first ahead of the Sportabout. 25,000 Gremlins were produced before the first Sportabout even existed
First car in 1986 was a 1977 AMC Hornet that was a government issued vehicle. It was easy to drive and plenty of room hauling my high school buds.
Now I want a 360 hatchback with the optional wheels and stripes. Didn't know this car existed.
AMC was an amazing car company . Very inovative ideas and very much ahead of the curve in styling thanks to Richard Teauge . Took my drivers road test in a 1974 Matador Coupe with the 232 cid Six .
I took mine in a 1973 Hornet with the 258ci six and 3-speed manual.
The 258 was a great engine as well . I'm also a big fan of the 3 speed manual trans . Column mounted or floor mounted . I have a 1964 Plymouth Valiant V 200 4 door I bought 30 years ago and it still looks and runs like new . Has the push button A 904 Tourque Flite in it .
Buelligan88 k
Driver test memories--I passed my test in our baby blue '61 Galaxie convertible--with the top down, of course.
@@patrickrogers9499 lucky you! I would be happy with a 62 Plymouth Savoy, or a Valiant slant six. No computer issues..
I had a 77 sedan, brown as hell. Lol. I loved it, though. It was passed down to me after my father passed. It had the 258ci I6. Miss that damn car.
I had the '78 Concord, which was an upgraded Hornet. That 258 was a seven main bearing work horse. Wish I still had it.
This is actual a AMC Dealer Training film. Quite neat to see how many of them survived in some fashion. Many of them thru the late 60s/mid 70s were filmed in one take, and filmed from a trailing...American Motors car.
The 1973 Hornet hatchback was the only year that the hatchback was available with the smaller rear bumper, lower mounted license plate, and exposed gas cap, Before a larger rear bumper was required for crash ratings, the license plate was moved between the tail lights covering the gas cap. You can literally see how the rear bumper doesn't quite fit the mold out of the body for the larger bumper they knew they needed to put on the car in 1974 and forward. Amazing car
My third car was a '73 4-door Hornet - with my CB Radio antenna on the roof, everyone said it looked like a "Narc" car! I had it until it got t-boned by a red light runner 6 years later.
I remember narrator Mason Adams as the editor in the Mary Tyler Moore spinoff "Lou Grant". He had that comforting, "Ward Cleaver" personality. Speaking of cleavers, the clowns weren't such a good idea.....
Hornet Hatchback is one of the best looking cars of the '70's. And debuted years before GM offered compact hatches.
That's actually not true, sorry, the first year of the Hornet Hatchback was 1973, the same year Chevy offered a Nova Hatchback. It was the last of the body styles introduced on the AMC Hornet/Gremlin platform. 2 and 4 door in 1970 model year, Gremlin on April 1st 1970, then the Sportabout was introduced in 1972 and then the Hatchback style was introduced in 1973
Novas and Omegas and Venturas and Apollos all had hatchbacks available, not to mention the Vega and Monza, Sunbird, Skyhawk, and Starfire.
@@OsbornTramain yeah, they were looking at a compact truck (AMC Cowboy) but they only had capacity to introduce one more body style and settled on the hatchback.
Had a 71 Hornet
My first car when I got my license 6 banger 4 door, drove it from 77-79 Great car
I had a 70 hornet once. that car was so simple to work on !
My mom had a 1973 Hornet. Bought it brand new and used drive it a lot when got older by 1980. My mom got rid of it in 1986.
I hada 73 Hornet Sportabout when I was 16,I miss good old American cars with any options you choose.
I like that 2 door hatch.
Really cool archives , compliments .
There was a form of harmony in this compact car - I wish I had one, either the four-door sedan or the Sportabout wagon, for these were truly good cars, as far as I know.
Cool 70s video, but it stopped in the middle of the front safety bumper demonstration! I've always liked the Hornet. It's such a compact, harmonious design.
Yep, sadly, that's life in the big city. We could restore the color on the film the best we could and only what was left of the film.....the remainder of the film is lost. These uploads are created off the original film, not copied videos.....so....what you see is all that we have.....I'll be uploading a Javelin Film too but it's also not complete and in the next few days, (it willl actually take 48 hours to upload because the file is so large) an AMC Rebel film in absolutely beautiful condition and color from 1967
How i miss AMC, VAM in Mexico.
My 1st car my parents bought me was a 1973 AMC Hornet...it was 1984 and I was 16 yrs old. I would have to spend 15 minutes to get it to start in the winter, and then let it run for 30 minutes so I would freeze to death on my ride to work. Sliding into the front seat on a cold winter morning was like sitting on a block of ice!
All that car needed was service. An old saying: Take Care Of Your Car And It Will Take Care Of You.
My dad traded his allegedly problem plagued 69 Vista Cruiser for a 73 Sportabout in December 72. It had the 360V8 2bbl with the 727 3 speed Trans. My dad hated the big cars of the day and welcomed the smaller proportions of the AMC Hornet and Gremlin models. In Jan 74 he bought a Gremlin with the 258 6 cylinder. I got to drive the Gremlin later and found the handling to be well balanced and sharp. I wish it would have had the v8. AMC built the best looking cars for sure
Ellie and I had one.....Nice car...I pulled a trailer hauling 2000 pounds of coal with it , when we lived in Jackson ohio , living in a house with two coal stoves. New baby ...we kept warm !
One of those songs was also used in an old Electric Company video cartoon--the one where a man brought up his 'bed' but ended it as 'deb'! Then 'deb' became bed!
... makes me want to go buy some Smuckers ®.
Is he alive or dead
Great reference! You must be of my vimtage!
Love that Gucci interior option!
hornet and the grimlen i was looking for a csr from the early 70s and those were my first choice i ended up buying a 73 comet i wanted something you no longer see on the road im glad i got my comet but old amcs are cool
I bought my first Gremlin a year ago for 450 bucks, the body and interior are done now so it's just some minor engine stuff....can't wait to get this one on the road soon, hopefully, by this Fall. Good luck on the Comet, they are one of my favorites too.....I'll be uploading a Comet commercial tomorrow that's already uploaded, but I've had the film restored and it looks great....keep an eye open for it.
LOVE IT
It was sold in Australia after being assembled by AMI in Melbourne from CKD kits.
I would take an AMC today. It would be fun to have one of the few in my area to drive in summer/fall. Park for winter. Maybe someday....
Luv the Hornets, I wish I could find a sportabout wagon..
I had a 74 Sportabout - total party car!
Can’t believe that it had the option of GUCCI seats
AMC was the first car company to offer these designer series of cars. As always, AMC had to be an innovator and niche player due to there smaller market share. AMC had the Gucci Hornet, Pierre Cardin Javelin, Cassini Matador and other Levi jeeps and cars. The other manufactures, particularly Lincoln jumped on the band wagon.....Lincoln had one requirement, no designer that did work for any other car company could work on their cars...that's why you don't see Gucci Lincoln or Cassini Lincoln but do see Bill Blass, Givenchy an Cartier. Cadillac did work with Gucci later on a Seville model.
Interesting that AMC thought of doing that. Personally, I'd rather have the base upholstery, whatever it be, that Gucci color combo was always a nasty site to me.
Always thought the hornet hatch was just as good looking as the javelin.
Really? I remember the Javelins at the AMC dealer when were picking up our new Hornet, blue with Levi's interior. I did not think our dowdy Hornet looked nearly as good as the sporty Javelins with their bulging fenders. Those Javelin AMXs were especially beautiful.
I only meant the hatch version. Their only real supercar threat was the SC rambler.They so easily could've done a 401 Hornet and didn't. I think HOT ROD got a Hornet 360 4bbl into the 14s though.
"Dowdy"? I don't think the Hornets are "Dowdy", never a word I associated with a Hornet. They are very sporty looking in my mind, SportaBout and hatchback specifically. We owned a new 1975 2 door and with the wheels and options, I thought it was sporty and that was when I was in high school...
Watching this video makes one look at AMC in a different way. They were the first ones to come out with the Gremlin, the Hornet was also a better car than the Maverick, even the Sportabout wagon was something that the Big 3 didn't have in the seventies until the Aspen/Volare wagons in 1976, plus how could we forget the Pacer. Is it any wonder why the LAPD had the Matador as cop cars, just watch Adam 12 reruns. They obviously had more interior room than any other intermediate car at the time, so call them ugly, I prefer them as unique
Pinto and Vega both had wagons at the same time as the Sportabout.
I've ridden in a Hornet it belonged to my Aunt Lily..interesting '70s film huh??!!!!!..the Hornet was a neat little car, eh??????!!!....getting back to Aunt Lily her Hornet was brown and I don't remember if it was a coupe (2 door) or a sedan (4 door)
They were solid little cars. Too heavy to really be considered economy cars, but compared to the land yachts of the day, no doubt a big improvement. Decent cars for the time, and I think they actually got better through the 70s and early 80s, while the rest of the American cars were getting worse.
anyone uploaded the amc dealer 1973 amc gremlin promo videos on youtube yet??
Like the Gucci interior!
Michael St. Laurent Gucci Gang
I had a 74 Hatchback X - sheet metal was super thin on that and rust was nasty. Interior finishes were super chintzy - that package shelf rattled so bad I took it out. Nice memories as my first car but it was really junky.
you sound like you've had a very different experience than most Hornet Owners, we owned many in our family living in the NE part of the USA with salted roads....we never had issues with rust....but we did get our cars rustproofed.....that was something normal to do in the North East, if you wanted your car to last.
We bought our Hornet hatchback in Omaha, Nebraska in 1973. I can't remember if my dad sprung for Ziebarting, but we never did have rust problems with ours. I learned how to drive in that car. 3spd on the floor, 258, Levi's interior. It was hard to look cool in a Hornet hatchback, but I gave it my best.
One major problem was that the front fenders had no liner. Worse yet was that a large shelf was there above the tire between the monocoque frame and the inside top of the bolted-on fender. Dirt and water collected there and mine rusted thru at three years old! DOH!
Yes, my sister had a 70 Javelin. The carpet was just thrown in, and the dash was a flimsy abortion, but the car ran forever, and had nice lines.
I'm surprised that AMC would attach the Hornet name to a compact since the original Hudson Hornet (AMC was formed from a merger between Nash and Hudson) was not a compact.
Customer Loyalty, Rambler, Ambassador, Hornet...all former Nash and Hudson names.....My Great Uncle owned Ambassadors and he owned several Ramblers in the 60's and also a new Hornet in 1970. He was Loyal to AMC. After he died, my Aunt bought a Chevy Chevette, I was shocked! I've got family photos back to the 40's and 30's with Nash's in them.
The Hudsun Heritage carries on today with the new Dodge Hornet. FCA owns the rights to all the old Nash and Hudsun and AMC names.
Would have gotten a Hornet hatchback over a Gremlin. Basically the same car but the Hornet is better looking imo
front and rear ash trays!
The ash tray and cigarette lighter a must!
Why does it cut off??? Grrrr.
sadly, because that's all there is, that's the only thing left of the film. Who ever had this film before I purchased it cut it up, it was a much larger film that someone cut up into pieces
@@OsbornTramain well I can still appreciate it for what it is.
@@OsbornTramain I hate when people do stuff like that. If they need a clip, they should have reattached it for the sake of historical reference.
Was that 360 c.i. V8 a Chrysler motor, or an AMC engine?
yes
Chrysler had a 360 in it's line up.......AMC had a 360 in it's line up too, they were both making a 360 at the same time but they were different engines. When Chrysler Acquired AMC in 1988, AMC's 360 were still in production used in the Jeep Grand Wagoneer and Jeep Pickups, but Chrysler's designed 360 was long gone. So with the deal, again, technically, the AMC 360 was in production when Chrysler acquired AMC. The 258 of AMC was in production by Chrysler until 2004 I think?
@@OsbornTramain Thank you very much for your kind reply. I always wondered. Did AMC use the Borg-Waner trans up to the end of AMC?
This car was for sale 51 years ago
They added fender flares in 1980, called it eagle
not really.....The car became the Concord in 1978, it had a minor body facelift. The Eagle was based on the Concord and due to the higher road clearance for the 4WD system, body cladding including fender flares were added to make the car appear lower. The Hornet evolved into the Eagle and continued thru 1983. The Eagle was marketed separately specifically as an SUV and sold up until the 1988 model year.
hornet looks like i hit the t instead of the y when typing horney
They can’t use clowns in modern commercials. Too much association with knife murdering
And scars
Or Trump.
Or with Democrats.
A Gucci interior option?! wow
Another Citizen I think it was Emilio Pucchi option.
Sean Dougherty Thanks for the correction
No it was Gucci. You could also get a tilt-o-lift steering wheel and a console shift.
Front seats seem so thin.
Gucci Interior 😳
I liked AMC cars if you need parts just borrow some of the other big 3 hell they did
Gutti interior!