AMC trivia

Closest I ever got to owning an AMC car ...

A few days before I found and bought my brand new off the carrier 73 Dart 340 Sport minutes I test drove a black 1971 AMC Hornet SC 360 auto on a dealers used car lot.
It was fast and drove good but it did have a blue tint to the exhaust and there was rubber in the wheelwells, it was definitely beat on. IIRC it was $2900. Sorry to say but the Hornet was faster than the A/C loaded and smog-ish 73 340.

Believe it or not the 1973 350 4bbl Buick Apollo was under consideration before the Dart purchase.

I got a ride in a "Machine" once but the owner didn't punch it out. Cool car for sure. He was an engineer for Hewlet Packard and also had a white Bird 440-4. Gave me a not so spectacular few miles slow ride. He had money, he had more cars, maybe 5 or 6 that I can't remember anymore, only the two I got rides in .... This would have been around 1989/90 time frame.