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The 1968 model year Javelin was the first to offer AMC's optional "Go package". [9] The official name on the dealer vehicle order forms from AMC was "Performance Package", but it was described as a Go Package in the automaker's sales brochures and listed as such on the window stickers. [10]
In mid-1968, the new 390 cu in (6.4 L) engine was offered as part of the "Go-package" option with a floor-mounted automatic or manual four-speed transmission. "Its impressive 315 hp (235 kW; 319 PS) and 425 pound force-feet (576 N⋅m) of torque could send the Javelin from zero to 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) in the seven-second range."
The AMC AMX is a two-seat GT-style muscle car produced by American Motors Corporation from 1968 through 1970. [2] [6] As one of just two American-built two-seaters, the AMX was in direct competition with the one-inch (2.5 cm) longer wheelbase Chevrolet Corvette, [7] for substantially less money.
Jeep CJ; Jeep Wagoneer/Grand Wagoneer; Kaiser Jeep was purchased by AMC in 1970. The Buick 350 cu in (5.7 L) V8, AMC 232 I6, and AMC 327, 360 V8 engines in the FSJ Wagoneer and trucks used a 'nailhead' pattern TH400—also known as a "unipattern," as it was used by many other manufacturers (including Rolls-Royce and Jaguar) with an adapter ring—from 1965 to 1972.
The input on the transfer case can also be changed to match the output shaft spline count. Rear-wheel-drive-only transmissions all have the same spline count on the output shaft, only 4x4 models are affected by differing spline count. Gear Ratios for the AW4: 1st: 2.80; 2nd: 1.53; 3rd: 1.00; 4th: 0.75 (23-spline, 0.705 21-spline) Models that ...
The AMC V8 engine was enlarged to 390 cu in (6.4 L) in 1968, [61] which produced 315 hp (235 kW) and was first used in the 1968 AMC Rebel SST, [62] AMC Javelin Go-package, and AMC AMX. [63] [64] AMC was a car manufacturing company that made these two incredible cars. AMC only made small economy cars until they hired Dick Teague as a designer ...
The 1974 Gremlin was the third VAM car not to bear the Rambler name since the 1968 Javelin and the 1972 Classic (Matador in the U.S.) models. Moreover, the Mexican market continued to use the Gremlin model name for VAM's version of the AMC Spirit sedan from 1979 through 1983, several years after the Gremlin nameplate was withdrawn in the U.S ...
By the end of 1968, AMC dropped out of funny car racing to concentrate on its new Javelin pony car in SCCA Trans Am road racing, while Proffitt retired from racing for a few years. [ 67 ] In 1968, Ron Rosenberry drove the King Rebel of Ted McOsker using a blown fuel Chrysler Hemi engine and had a known best of 9.58 seconds at 148.02 mph (238.2 ...