On ebay with only 20 minutes to go and bidding at $4150, I feel that this 1980 AMC Spirit Liftback offered in Burton, MI is a sweet ride for a small price. See a better way to live the AMC 80s dream? tips@dailyturismo.com
Although it might have been the fastest domestic four-door sedan available in the USA for 1991, the Spirit R/T might not earn you accolades from your neighbors or country club members. Nevertheless, it holds the distinction of being Chrysler’s swiftest K-car ever manufactured, a title akin to being the winner of a burnt toast competition. […]
This next car is something special. It might have started life as a simple AMC Spirit, but it now sports some fighter plane style shark teeth and a propane powered 4.2 liter inline-6. The seller assures us that propane is “just like gas but clean and odorless.” Anyone who has played ice hockey will tell […]
The AMC Spirit was the successor to the outgoing Gremlin subcompact and was essentially a Gremlin without the funky styling…which when you get down to it is a pretty miserable formula for a car. A surprising quantity of Gremlins have avoided crusher because of style, but the Spirit was crushed en masse like a bunch […]
The AMC Eagle was a neat looking 4X4 compact crossover-car thing that beat the modern market to the compact crossover and defined traditional labeling of the time. The sedan/wagon/coupe versions were built on the AMC Concord chassis, but the 2-door SX/4, Kammback, & Sundancer models were built on the AMC Spirit subcompact chassis…but the important […]
When you think of Pony cars from the 80’s and 90’s the Dodge Daytona probably doesn’t come to mind. Camaro Iroc Z’s duked it out with Mustang 5.0’s for king of the street during this time period. Dodge slyly took over as primary sponsor of the IROC race series in 1991. The Daytona IROC R/T […]
If cars had spirit Animals, there are a few that are easy. The Dodge Viper is a poisonous snake, the Ford Mustang is a wild pony, any Lamborghini is an angry bull. But what about cars where the make/model name doesn’t make it so easy; Mazda MX-5 Miata is a domesticated house cat, the Ford […]
The pejorative term punk was adopted by followers of the alternative music scene from the mid 70s typified by bands like the Clash, Ramones, or Sex Pistols. Followers of the punk lifestyle sport mohawks, leather jackets, bad attitudes and (apparently) awesome AMC Spirit customs. Find this 1982 AMC Spirit offered for $2,000 in SF Bay […]
The original AMC AMX was a V8 powered 2-seat pony car sold on AMC’s junior cars platform as a competitor to the Mustang/Camaro/Challenger, but the name was revived for the 1979-1980 model years as a performance version of the Spirit. Find this 1979 AMC Spirit AMX offered for $4,500 located on Lincoln, NE craigslist. Tip […]
The AMC Spirit was the successor to the outgoing Gremlin subcompact and was essentially a Gremlin without the funky styling…which when you get down to it is a pretty miserable formula for a car. A surprising quantity of Gremlins have avoided crusher because of style, but the Spirit was crushed en masse, like…well…spirits being crushed […]