The AMC Gremlin is possibly the most oddball car of the late 20th century. To some, it has a face only a mother could love, and, to others, it is endlessly endearing. Regardless of which side of that ...
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The AMC Gremlin goes on sale in the U.S. April 1, 1970, competing against imports such as the Volkswagen Beetle and Toyota Corona, and beating the Chevrolet Vega and Ford Pinto to market by five ...
The AMC Gremlin, a fast and colorful Jolly Rancher of a car, was the result of reduced gasoline supplies in the late 1960s (which played a role in the 1973 oil crisis), and the nation’s sudden ...
Few cars have more ignoble roots than the AMC Gremlin. It was named for the mythical creatures said to be responsible for crashing airplanes and breaking machinery. It was introduced to the public on ...
Nelson Ireson October 4, 2007 Comment Now! The 1970s was a wild and revolutionary period for America. The cultural tsunami of the Summer of Love was sweeping across the nation. Concepts such as ...
Introduced in 1970 as AMC's take on the subcompact segment, the Gremlin went into the history books as one of the weirder designs of the 1970s. And while most early 1970s American cars are remembered ...
View post: Nobody Wants Fiat’s Quirky SUV, So Dealers Have Slashed Prices By Over $14k Was it some kind of April Fool’s joke by American Motors Corp. when it unleashed the Gremlin on an unsuspecting ...
It’s hard to think of a car that more perfectly encapsulates the seismic changes that would shake the American auto industry in the 1970s than the AMC Gremlin. Like some sort of walking fish, it ...
Robert has been an auto enthusiast his entire life. He started working on cars at a young age, learning the basics from his father in the home garage on the weekends. Over the years, he learned as ...
The seller of today's Nice Price or No Dice Gremlin says it was their mother's car and that it has so far been held onto for sentimental reasons. We'll have to decide if it's priced to make potential ...
The history of the American Motors Corporation, or AMC in short, ended abruptly in 1988 when it was renamed the Jeep Eagle Corporation. Two years later, it merged into Chrysler, thus putting an end to ...