the AMX3 in clay

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7157724324254125&set=gm.566567495581051&idorvanity=304298828474587

AMX 3 was pulled out of storage and put up for sale on Facebook Marketplace, and sold for $400,000 in less than a day

only five of the nine (two of which are not even complete cars) are in private hands.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/37194/ultra-rare-amc-amx-3-concept-sells-for-400000-on-facebook-marketplace-of-all-places

AMX 3 pulled out of storage to be displayed at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, and thenClassic Design Concepts will conduct a top-to-bottom restoration of the car.

looks like along the way, someone swapped tires and rims on either the front, or the back, as the rims don't match

https://www.wxyz.com/news/rare-amc-amx-3-prototype-found-in-michigan-barn
https://amx3.weebly.com/

First I've ever seen of this green AMX 3... photo from 1972

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2771621962853234&set=g.674239962722623&type=1&theater&ifg=1

first time I've seen a blue AMX 3

http://carmechanicfails.tumblr.com/post/161791800429/justrolledintotheshop-amx-3#notes

I've posted every AMX 3 photo and article I've come across, as I think it's one of the coolest car designs, but I've never seen any color but red and yellow

Paul knew of it! It was on Ebay in 2015

This car was shipped to Indianapolis and driven 1000 miles before being put into storage. It was recently pulled out of storage and a full rebuild was started, including stripping all of the paint back to bare metal.

(You know what happened then - lack of resolve, funds, or commitment)

The owner has now had a change of heart and has decided to sell this car in the condition it is in presently. It is complete, ALL parts are with the car. The pic of the car on stands in bare metal is a current pic.

Reserve was higher than the 236k that was bid. No doubt, the reserve was ridiculous and around 600k. 

Auction results, AMX3, Tucker #44

$891,000.

When they went publicity crazy in December to hype this car, I posted the story about it. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/12/at-auction-next-month-recent-best-in.html

Another AMX 3, a red one, went for about the same price a couple years ago... so, that's the going rate for a Bizzarini/BMW/AMX concept car - prototype.

$1,347,500

Not bad for pulling it out of long term storage because it was never in good enough condition to run reliably.... but when #43 went for about 3 million, well, that was all it took for Tucker owners to loosen their grip on the cars they never drove anyway, and it was flatbedded around for publicity the 2nd half of last year.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a30105/an-ultra-rare-3-million-tucker-48-was-discovered-in-an-ohio-barn/

http://www.automobilemag.com/news/2017-bonhams-gooding-co-rm-sothebys-scottsdale-sales-eight-highlights/

at auction next month, the recent Best In Class winner of Pebble Beach's Bizzarrini class, the AMX 3 prototype that went over 160 mph at Monza. Incredibly rare, extensively documented from new, and freshly restored to elite concours-winning form, someone will SCORE when they buy this

http://www.sportscardigest.com/pebble-beach-concours-delegance-2016-report-photos/13/

Designed by Bizzarrini, engineered by BMW, Italdesign, and Bizzarrini.  Built at Autocostruzione ‘SD’, and  taken to Munich-BMW for static tests, then it was returned to Livorno, where it began its road tests, which ended in Monza with the accomplishment of a lap time of 1 minute, 59.8 seconds.”

It debuted in Rome, the day before the Pantera.

Following cancellation of the AMX/3 program, the car remained in Italy. But American Motors agreed to sell an AMX/3 to a consultant and friend of the president of AMC.

It was restored at Bill de Carr’s famous hot rod shop in Bellfower, California, in preparation for the '90 Pebble Beach

In 2014 it was restored again, this time by the finest experts in Germany. Following completion of the first stage, the AMX/3 was shown at the 2015 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, followed by the second, more involved stage, in preparation for the car’s display at the 2016 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in 2016.

http://blog.caranddriver.com/yes-theres-an-amc-car-thats-worth-a-million-bucks/
http://www.goodingco.com/vehicle/1969-american-motors-amx3/

an AMX-3 is for sale for about 800 thou

it was at Pebble Beach in 1990, and has been in a private collection for 25 years. info at http://mycarquest.com/2013/08/amc-amx3-by-bizzarrini-for-sale-a-bizzarrini-developed-super-car-powered-by-american-motors.html

the San Diego Auto Museum has one of the 6 existing AMX 3 concept cars, head over and see it for yourself!

in 2007 Jeff Teague who now owns this (the #3 of the 5 made) brought it to the all AMC car show at Irwindale and an interview was caught on youtube starting at 2:40

Thanks to Marisela and Chris for their time and effort to allow me to photograph the AMX 3 so well!

The variety in the few AMX3 concept cars made, 10 total I've read, but interestingly not alike in tail lights, and rear deck

Above image 2007 Meadow Brook Concours

Above images 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed by Ilya Holt and from 2007 Meadow Brook Concours

Above 4 images were taken in 2004, at the Bizzarini Expo in Brussels by Dirk de Jager and all the above photos are from http://www.supercars.net/cars/2982.html

Notice the above museum car has a side marker light behind the rear wheel that only one of of the following do.

Please notice that the car in this magazine article, is an AMX 2 not a 3

Lower door racing stripe and AMX 2 callout looks really good, and the rear deck styled partition with air foil over the tailights

Really don't like the above rims.

images from my many posts on the AMX 3... I hope you take a moment to see the differences in these different models, the bottom one having the coolest looking wheels, but I bet it's a mock up with no real car parts, and it looks like the model is in the design studio for a photo op.

Notice it doesn't have a gas cap like the yellow model directly above it, and the rocker panel is black with the AMX 3 call out looking really nice. Different tailights too.

From the Supercars website story on the AMX 3:
Giotto Bizzarrini, of ex-Ferrari fame, was specifically responsible for making a production worthy AMX/3 out of the show queen AMX/2. What would have been a challenging build for AMC, was easily handled by Bizzarrini who was very familiar with race car design
and construction, particularly on a tight budget.

Bizzarrini's final AMX/3 featured the hallmark of sports engineering, a mid-mounted engine and rear transaxle. The Italian firm Melara developed the new gearbox while BMW completed final testing on the roadworthy AMX/3. It seemed AMC was serious about production. From a design standpoint, the AMC/3 was remarkably similar to Ford's DeTomaso Pantera which debuted just one day after the AMX/3. Such timely releases made it unclear exactly who copied who, but in any case, the casual observer can easily mistake the AMX/3 with a Pantera.

Due to the successful launch, and low price of the Pantera, AMC scrapped the AMX/3 project. Bizzarrini was ordered to destroy all six cars, which he, of course, did not.