The best known special editions were AMXs modified for AMC by Hurst to meet NHRA Super Stock class drag racing regulations. This was AMC’s offering to the muscle car horsepower wars of the era. The infamous “69 AMX SS” — perhaps the best (race setup) — Detroit ever offered in a production vehicle.

2014年3月6日 · According to Hemmings, S/S AMX owners were notified in May of 1969 that their cars were the base for a successful drag car and suggested more modifications (like a bigger camshaft and drag-ready wheels and tires) be done by the owners or dealership of their choice to make the car into a viable competitor. AMC also stated that “a ready-to-drag ...

2016年12月5日 · Shirley was a gifted driver who started her racing career driving Chevy and Mopar before moving to the AMC stable in 1969. She quickly got up to speed driving a Super Stock/D SS/AMX to a number...

2023年4月12日 · Nobody expected sleepy little American Motors to offer a factory drag car, but the 1969 AMX Super Stock quickly proved to be a winner. In the late ’60s, American Motors was still laboring to shed its granny-car image.

Hot Wheels offered a 1969 AMX custom in 1:64 scale, and in 1971 issued the AMX/2 show car model. [140] Newer models in 1:18 scale diecast were issued, including the Playboy Pink version in the "Best of the Best" series, as well as the modified "Drag-On Lady" race car.

In NHRA SS/D and SS/C classes of drag racing, the cars began to slay all comers with mid ten-second runs, and track records began to fall to AMX Super Stock runners on a weekly basis. Today, only 40 of the 52 cars are accounted for and rarely hit the auction block.

This 1969 AMX came from an unlikely source: ultra conservative American Motors Corporation, the little number 4 to Detroit's “Big Three.” During the mid-sixties, AMC tried to shed its economy-car image by clawing into the luxury market, only to get left in the dust of the muscle-car boom.

2015年4月22日 · In early 1969, 52 cars were pulled off AMC's Kenosha assembly line and sent to George Hurst's facility in Michigan, where they were prepped to race in NHRA's Super Stock classes.

2016年3月31日 · From their place of manufacture in Kenosha, Wisconsin, 52 1969 AMXs were shipped as basic, 390-powered bodies-in-white right down Detroit's famed Woodward Avenue to Hurst's facility in Ferndale,...

In the summer of 1969 the AMX was the official pace car for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb. Ten to twelve AMXs, all Frost White with red stripes and red interiors, were used as courtesy cars by select participants of the race. Only one of these cars is known to still exist and is documented as being used by Bobby Unser during the week prior to the race.