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The Graveyard Part Three
1970 AMC "The Machine"
The 1970 AMC Machine was a limited production version (1,936 or 2,326 units, depending on the source quoted) built off of the intermediate-sized Rebel platform. It was AMC’s delayed reaction to the back-to-basics muscle cars like Plymouth’s Road Runner, appearing in 1968. It was the successor to the equally audacious 1969 S/C Rambler. Like the American/Rogue-based S/C Rambler, the Machine was developed from a collaboration between Hurst Performance and AMC, but unlike its compact counterpart, there was no official connection between the two parties once production commenced.
The Machine was equipped with the hottest V-8 ever to be offered in an AMC car, a 340-horsepower (gross) version of the 390 V-8 mated to a close-ratio Borg Warner T-10 4-speed with Hurst shift linkage. This was part of the 290/304/343/360/390/401 family of modern V-8s developed by AMC in the mid-sixties. With 430 foot pounds or torque, it could move the 3905-pound Machine (cited in Illustrated AMC Buyer’s Guide) from 0 to 60 in under 6.8 seconds and could cover the quarter mile in 14.49 seconds with a top speed of 93 miles per hour according to the February 1970 issue of Hot Rod. As a point of reference, a 335-horsepower, 383-equipped Road Runner went from 0-60 in 7.1 seconds and covered the quarter mile in 15 seconds flat.
Like the S/C Rambler before it, the Machine sported AMC’s distinctive white paint with red and blue reflective graphics. Unlike the S/C Rambler, after the first 1,000 units were built, the Machine was available in any of the solid colors AMC 1970 colors with a flat black section of the hood and no stripes.
This paticularly rare car is slowly disintegrating into the dirt behind a body shop. Hasn't been registered since 1984.
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1967 Mustang Fastback V8
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1964 Mustang Coupe
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1964 Plymouth 'Cuda
This '64 is behind the same body shop as 'The Machine'. It also hasn't been registered in quite awhile. Has what appears to be a factory added Hurst shifter. |
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Mystery early 50's fire truck
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