Built from 1968 to 1970, the AMC AMX is an oddball muscle car due to ... series event. Essentially a Javelin with a shorter wheelbase and rear-seat delete, the AMX was one of only two American ...
With the goal of shifting (no pun intended) the company's perception from economical to performance, AMC decided to unveil a sportier version of its Javelin and call it the AMX, which stood for ...
As with AMC's other 343-equipped cars of the 1960s, the Javelin switched to the 290-hp, 395 lb-ft 360 cubic inch V8 for 1970.