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Got a Gremlin? Mad about Matadors? Harmonious with Hornets? Rabid about Ramblers? Joyful about Javelins? If you said yes to any of the above, then mark your calendars now to attend the 2006 American...
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My old pals over at Johnny Lightning have been working overtime to create some really intriguing new models in 1:64 scale. A couple of old favorites look grand in new paint schemes – the black ’65...
View ArticleGremlin ad
More vintage advertisement goodness from YouTube – this time a 1977 Gremlin ad. (via)
View Articlea photographic safari into the deepest corners of Hershey
so this guy always sets up right across from the Hemmings tent in the Chocolate field with cool old Ford bodies that I lust after, but will never have enough moolah for. In this case, it looked like he...
View Articlechopback – the Gremlin’s introduction
Every now and then, you just gotta go back to the dealer intros for a fresh perspective on an old car. Like it or not, 1970s cars will continue to rise in popularity over the next several years as...
View Articledon’t they know what day it is?
Ya gotta wonder. I mean, I know that the manufacturers have time schedules, and they usually prefer to introduce cars on weekends versus weekdays and there must be a billion other reasons for it. But...
View ArticleAmerican Flava: the Levi’s Gremlin press release
A supersecret source friend of ours (thanks, Ian!!) recently posted these scans of the June 20, 1972, press release announcing the Levi’s edition Gremlin on a supersecret source, and we thought them...
View ArticleAlways call those ads
Joseph Cargagna, Jr found this 5,000-mile all original 1971 Gremlin in his local newspaper’s classifieds. It pays to follow up on promising-sounding leads… Did you ever read the classifieds in your...
View Articlesnipers shouldn’t drive orange Gremlins
Just a little bit of advice for would-be disgruntled members of society who decide to go on sniper-style shooting rampages: Don’t drive orange Gremlins. One would think that an obvious bit of advice....
View Articlelet’s save the world – with green Gremlins!
Frequent commenter Marc Tyler pointed out this recent video for No More Kings’ song “Michael (Jump In),” noting that this seems to be a Gremlin day, what with our post earlier about the infamous...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1979 AMC Spirit
Of course I’m going to highlight any 1979 AMC Spirit that comes through the Hemmings.com classifieds, especially a 1979 Spirit sedan such as this one. The sedan was by far less popular than the...
View ArticleAd of the Week: The Gremlin of 1970
It’s hard to forget this two-page spread from American Motors that ran in just about every automotive magazine in 1970. Sure – go ahead and laugh. To be honest, I did as well when my dad brought one...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1957 Lincoln Premiere kiddie car
Much like the 1959 Fury Junior that we profiled back in the April 2009 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, this 1957 Lincoln Premiere-aping kiddie car for sale on Hemmings.com appears to have been lovingly...
View ArticlePacer and Gremlin in Cars 2!
Oooh, in the trailer for Cars 2, there’s both a Pacer and a Gremlin X! Too bad they appear to be bad guys… UPDATE (17.November 2010): Here’s the video from Youtube, for those of you who don’t want to...
View ArticleMeet the Pacer and Gremlin that modeled for Cars 2
Following our sighting of the Pacers and Gremlins in the Cars 2 trailer the other day, we heard from Ross Guistino of Rohnert Park, California, who informed us that it was his friend Nolan Dehner’s...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1973 AMC Gremlin
From hanging around AMC nuts for a few years, we’ve noticed that Gremlin owners really like themes as a way to make their cars stand out from the crowd – as if it took anything more than simply being...
View ArticleBoomerang: The only Gremlin exported to Australia returns to the United States
Brian Moyer was a little perturbed. For Saturday’s car show at the AACA Eastern Regional Fall Meet, show officials had listed his 1971 Gremlin as an AMC even after he thought he had made it clear on...
View ArticleGetting the Gremlins out
A few more from the Milwaukee Public Library’s online photo archive that I couldn’t pass up. First, a shot by George R. Cassidy of the assembly line in Kenosha, dated January 31, 1975, showing a...
View ArticleThis is why you don’t feed them after midnight
I spent part of this past weekend defiling the AMO National car show in Andover, Massachusetts, with Project HMX and noted quite the proliferation of small-body AMCs there. Aside from my heap, there...
View ArticleAMC racer Wally Booth among International Drag Racing Hall of Fame’s 2013 class
Photos courtesy Eddie Stakes. The International Drag Racing Hall of Fame, an adjunct of the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala, Florida, has named its 2013 class of inductees. We’ll give you...
View Article“What’s wrong with this picture?” The AMC Gremlin takes on the VW Beetle
While American consumers dozed fitfully in their suburban homes at the close of the 1960s, the country was quietly being invaded by foreign cars. Dealers for brands like Datsun, Opel (which was really...
View ArticleLost AMC Dealerships: High Point, North Carolina
While discussing other important AMC matters, Jonathan Tucker thought he’d share the above photo of his father’s (Jerry Tucker’s) drag-race Gremlin in front of the former Bob King AMC on Main Street...
View ArticleFor late model owners
Remember laughing when you saw a Gremlin show up at an AACA meet? Next year, 1984 Chrysler minivans could appear as well, which means that the once common late-model Chevy Malibu was eligible a long...
View ArticleTeague designs Gremlin. But not that Teague, and not that Gremlin
In the Jeff Teague AMC revival sketches we presented last month, the son of the famous AMC design chief had fleshed out his AMX 4 design in 3D software, but he’d also sketched a few other modernized...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1976 AMC Gremlin
Yes, 50 years ago today saw the introduction of the Plymouth Barracuda, but at least a couple other vehicles debuted on April 1 as well, including the half-a-Hornet Gremlin, so let’s dive into the...
View ArticleThe AMC Gremlin X: Because different is good
1971 AMC Gremlin X. Images courtesy of ProductionCars.com. By the late 1960s, it was apparent that America’s appetite for small, inexpensive and fuel-efficient cars wasn’t going to disappear. To...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1972 AMC Gremlin X
Except for a few rare examples, nobody’s gonna buy a Gremlin just to sock it away in a climate controlled bubble and never drive it again. That doesn’t bode well for their survival rate, of course,...
View ArticleAMX GT redux – popular concept car in the midst of re-creation
Photos by Mikel Smithson, except where noted. Couldn’t be that hard, many people think, to slam an AMX and a Gremlin together to re-create the long-lost 1968 AMX GT concept car, right? Except that...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1977 AMC Gremlin X
Probably one of the things the general public remembers the most of Seventies AMCs is the Levi’s interior package; some folks even seem to expect that every Gremlin or Hornet had it. This 1977 AMC...
View ArticleTeague’s trophy: The Gremlin XP prototype returns to the spotlight
Photos by the author. Akwardness, really, was the Gremlin’s main calling card. Some people still can’t see past that aspect of AMC’s subcompact, others embrace it wholeheartedly, but even the latter...
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