Clearly I don't know what I'm doing and need some help here, recently got a nice javelin and I'm wanting to keep the straight 6 instead of just switching to v8.

Can anyone help me find a good guide on what I'll need and need to do to achieve this?.

My dad has one of these 10 in x 4 in AMC Patches, I can’t find another one online for the life of me. Anyone have an extra and willing to ship? lol shoot me a message!

I have too many projects, this one isn’t inspiring me to work on it.

Just wondering if anyone knows any junkyards in California that have some AMC’s? I’m looking for some AMC pacer parts cars, specifically windshield and door panels.

https://youtu.be/N_O0ijvMx1I?si=2qISr7FpJgew56Bu

Today my credit card balance hit $0 so I could start to save for my first real hobby car. Hooray!!

I have gone around and around in my head about which hobby car I want to save up for. Ever since I was a teenager in the late ‘90s and first became obsessed with AMCs, a Matador Barcelona II coupe, in either two-tone pattern, has been at the top of my list.

But my garage is a small 1-car affair, so I’ve worries that something that big would be a huge pain to live with and work on. So I turned myself off the idea and started thinking about a late Gremlin or late Pacer. Maybe even an Alliance or Encore. I’ve cycled through ideas of Avanti IIs, Alfa Spiders, and even Lancia Betas.

But I just keep coming back to the Matador Coupe. Especially a late model and especially in Barcelona II guise. I look at that huge hood, those bug eyes, that silly loose cushion interior, the quad round taillights, clean flanks, and fastback rake, and feel like I’m still smitten after 25 years.

What should I look for and expect in my quest for a Matador Coupe? What trouble areas do they have? What parts are hardest to find?

My goal would be to keep it cosmetically standard, but maybe add an EFI kit if it’s a V8, or swap in a later 4.0L and maybe 4-speed auto if the car I get has a six. This would be a weekend car. I don’t need much speed or performance. Just usability and decent emissions as I live in Oregon and still have to emissions test it every 2 years if it’s a 1975 or newer.

What do y’all think? What do you recommend?

Hi! I have a rebel, and I'm wondering if anyone knows where I could get new front seats? Especially a driver's seat? I just got it not too long ago, and I'm trying to do a little cosmetic restoration

When I was growing up in the 80s my Dad had several American cars. His favourite was a Rambler Classic Convertible. It was pale metallic blue and had the same colour interior including a bench seat in the front. I was thinking about it the other day because we used to sit in it and pretend to drive. I don't think we ever drove it but the engine was good. Sadly we moved and my dad sold it really cheap. It must have been a really rare car in the UK back then.

I can’t find this spring anywhere online. I have found one for a Willy’s Jeep but says it won’t fit it. Not sure if this is true though.

Any help will be appreciated

Picture of our gremlin for attention, but has anybody ever re-did a 1960 Rambler American? Any big issues you’ve ran into/advice? Thanks!

This is the car that goes with the window sticker.

Found this in a drawer from my Fathers Eagle

My great-grandfarher bought this brand new in 1963. I still have the bill of sale and window sticker. 43,000 original miles!!

She runs great now!

Yeah I don’t know how I got here, but I have 2 now. A 550 and an 880.