Having campaigned it successfully in 1970, with racing powerhouse Mark Donohue under the stewardship of Roger Penske no less, AMC wanted to extract that last bit of performance from the car.

While electric cars are an obsession for a growing number of Americans, few of them have ever heard of the AMC Amitron concept car. Built in 1967 as a subcompact electric vehicle, it never did become ...

Regarded as one of the most underated vehicles of the golden muscle car era, the 1970 AMC Rebel Machine is also a rare classic.

“They were really fantastic cars,” he told the Free Press recently. “Nothing flashy, but roomy, reliable as heck, as AMC products tended to be.” It’s natural to be a fan if you grew up ...