We all knew one of those kids when we were young. You remember him — the ornery little runt that nobody messed with even though he was kind of a shrimp. He was a little crazy and a little bit off, but he was tough as nails.
That was the AMC AMX — the sawed-off little ruffian of the muscle car world in the late 1960s. What the pint-sized bruiser lacked in stature it more than made up for in guts and attitude, and the American automobile landscape has always been a little more colorful because of it.
The little AMCs were largely overlooked by the buying public during their 2 ½-year production run from mid-1968 through 1970. Only 19,134 AMXs were built in all, but there were a few guys like Gregg Pieczynski of Plover, Wis., who got on the AMX bandwagon early and never left. “When I was a kid I remember the first time I saw one of these. I grew up in Stevens Point [Wis.] and I was walking with a buddy of mine on Main Street on a Saturday afternoon, and I saw one of these and I said, ‘Whoa, is that one of those new Camaros?’ And my buddy said, ‘No, it’s a Rambler!’ I thought, ‘No way, they never made anything that sharp!’”
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Shit Head had left the wiper switch on... Had to re-spray the front clip and that was the last time that kid (in his late 20s at the time but stupid) was ever seen in the shop.
