Tuesday, February 13, 2018

the 1965 AMX concept car


starting with the Vignale AMX, worked on by the Torino Carrozzier for display at the 1966 New York Auto Show. It's now owned by Fred Phillips of Canada






and one is in the Crawford Auto and Aviation Museum


notice the gas filler door and door handle are different


about half of these photos I've posted before but with the new ones popping up, I figured it's time to post them all together http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=amx+rumble

http://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-494#post-3110962

2 comments:

  1. Very nice looking design, except for the rumble seat. That's a bit weird.

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  2. The AMC clay model started it all. The first displayed concept was the AMC mockup push-mobile in fiberglass (the Crawford museum car) at the Chicago Auto Show. This display was so popular that AMC commissioned a running version in steel from Vignale in Italy for the NY Auto Show (now owned by Fred Phillips) and it has an AMC 290. You are missing the third prototype, the 1966 running fiberglass model known as the Dom Jairdine prototype. AMC had 2 or 3 running fiberglass prototypes produced as a test to see if the production car could be fiberglass instead of steel but this proved impractical. 1 or 2 cars were destroyed at the AMC Proving Grounds and Dom Jairdine purchased the last remaining fiberglass prototype. It was still owned by the Jairdine family but may have been auctioned in 2015. It has a prototype AMC 343.

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