The AMC Hornet was a compact family car built as a replacement for the Rambler American brand/model starting in 1970. Hornet production continued through 1977 when it was superseded by the AMC Concord and the groundbreaking AMC Eagle crossover utility vehicle. Todays example is a simple Hornet coupe, but it is covered in a cool […]
If you own one AMC Hornet, you might be a regular guy, but if you own two AMCs you might be an oddball, but if you own THREE AMC Hornets, you must be a collector. So it would make sense to buy all three of the Hornets that this next seller is trying to dump. […]
The metal door vin plate on this next car has one of the most awesome inscriptions I’ve ever seen on a door plate — it says; AMERICAN MOTORS ADVANCED UNIT CONSTRUCTION; Advanced Unit Construction combines body and frame into a single all-welded structural unit, deep-dip primer paint, galvanized steel sections, plus lustre-gard baked acrylic enamel protect against body rust. It just sounds amazing. It sounds like a car that will last for a hundred years with just regular maintenance…until you remember that American Motors is AMC…and this car was built in 1977, which has been scientifically proven to be the worst year of all time for cars to be manufactured, but paradoxically the best year for a movie to be made (Star Wars, A Bridge Too Far, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Kentucky Fried Movie, Jabberwocky, Saturday Night Fever, Speedtrap, The Spy Who Loved Me, and last but not least Slap Shot). Find this 1977 AMC Hornet AMX offered for $6,500 in Colfax, WI via craigslist. Tip from Picklefork.
The asking price might be a smidgen high for this next car..but then how often do you find surviving cars from the early 70s with a stock single barrel carb. Most of those cars have long since been crushed and the 4bbl equipped versions are placed on pedestals and at the top of the next […]
Tipper Rock On had this to say about DT’s newest project car, “Vince’s new wagon is very sporty, but this Hornet is not too shabby.” The wagon version of the Hornet was called the Sportabout which proves automakers were allergic to the term wagon even way back then. The Hornet here is about as rocking […]
You don’t need a fancy car to start with when you are building your own classic. You don’t need a bunch of fancy aftermarket parts either…or a fancy $8k paint job. But if you don’t have any of those things or a pile of money, you need skill…mad skills. Find this 1976 AMC Hornet offered for […]
If you heard “The Surfin’ Bird” (everybody’s heard about The Bird) by The Trashmen, you’d think that they were straight out of the southern California coast surfin’ scene. However, The Trashmen were from that early 60’s hotbed of instrumental surf rock of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kinda like this next surfy longroof with fake wood and a […]
America. The United States. These United States. Land of the free. Home of the brave. I don’t know what else to say, except that no other country in the world would inspire someone to build a mid engine V8 powered ’54 Hudson, much less permit him to drive it on public roads. Try that in […]
The first generation Hudson Hornet featured a unique step-down (quasi unibody, where the floorpan was sunk down below the main frame rails) chassis that gave the car a low center of gravity that allowed it to dominate early stock car racing. A classic Hornet is well loved, particularly when equipped with the original Twin H-power […]
The AMC Hornet was a compact family car built as a replacement for the Rambler American brand/model starting in 1970. Hornet production continued through 1977 when it was superseded by the AMC Concord and the groundbreaking AMC Eagle crossover utility vehicle. However, before the Hornet disappeared into the history books, it was produced as a […]