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Re: A picture a day....
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« Reply #811 on: February 13 2012, 09:55:02 PM »
You wait till I find a Buick picture to complain?  :chin:
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« Reply #812 on: February 15 2012, 10:07:05 PM »
1970?


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« Reply #813 on: February 16 2012, 02:26:03 PM »
It's a 70 model alright Dave. :rock:
 
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Widely considered as the best AMC design of all time, a third-generation AMX concept car, the AMX/3, debuted at the 1970 Chicago Auto Show. Engine-less and fashioned in fiberglass, the original AMC/3 prototype was a show car only.
American Motors placed an order for 30 operational cars. The AMX/3 body mold was sent to Italian GT maker Giotto Bizzarrini, whose Turin facility hand made drivable mid-engined, steel bodied cars. Built on a 105.3-inch (2,675 mm) wheelbase, the Bizzarrini prototypes used the AMC 390 cu in (6.4 L) V8 and an Italian OTO Melara four-speed transaxle. Road testing was done by BMW, which declared the AMX/3's chasis one of the stiffest and most neutral handling they had ever tested.
The steel Italian cars differed from the original AMC design in having fewer but functional rear decklid louvers, louvered hoods, and, in some cases, hood scoops to direct fresh air into the heating-A/C system.
Five completed cars were produced before the US$2,000,000 program was cancelled. Escalating costs and pending bumper regulations put a stop to the mid-engined AMX/3. The remaining extra parts were used to assemble a sixth car
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« Reply #814 on: February 16 2012, 03:04:54 PM »
Cool!
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Re: A picture a day....
« Reply #815 on: February 16 2012, 03:23:55 PM »
Longgggg time ago.



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Re: A picture a day....
« Reply #816 on: February 16 2012, 10:17:28 PM »
We need the story that goes with that Dan.
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« Reply #817 on: February 17 2012, 08:07:07 AM »
It was at that time.  427 Cobra I owned and almost owned. Had a new 70 Mustang Mach 1 Cobra Jet. Found this Cobra (my dream car at the time) an was suppose to pick it up the next day. It needed a lot of work.  Next morning woke up an someone had stolen the Mustang. I was beyond pissed. So I passed on the Cobra at that time. 5 years later I end up with the same car BUT it was fixed up a little.



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« Reply #818 on: February 17 2012, 09:43:08 AM »
if we knew then what we knew today, we would have barns full of what were unpopular new cars then.  though the Cobra was popular, at least in the mags.
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« Reply #819 on: February 17 2012, 09:56:27 AM »
hahahaha... Bad case of the woulda, shoulda, coulda's  :rock: 2/ 70 Mach 1 CJs, 65 396/425hp Vette, 57 T bird with a BB Ford in it, 68 GT 500 KR convertible, and a few more Shelby Mustangs along with the 427 Cobra. Still have a 66 Shelby GT 350 convert.

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« Reply #820 on: February 17 2012, 11:01:52 AM »
My friend bought a 396/425hp hard top convertible vette in '65.  He is one of these guys that is always smarter than anyone else when it comes to what is the best buy, best deal, etc.

He sold it for $2500 a few years later when his first child was born because it was not practical.  He is O-C and the car was absolutely perfect.  Each time he tells me what I am doing wrong, I take great delight in telling him what the cars are selling for at auction now.
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« Reply #821 on: February 17 2012, 12:10:03 PM »
I have a little more respect for you now Dan. Sorry you didn't keep that car for the future though. However, I could see you throwing a turbo Buick engine in it now. :rolleyes; LOL
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« Reply #822 on: February 17 2012, 12:39:48 PM »
I have a little more respect for you now Dan. Sorry you didn't keep that car for the future though. However, I could see you throwing a turbo Buick engine in it now. :rolleyes; LOL

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« Reply #823 on: February 17 2012, 03:56:52 PM »
I wanted to do a Cobra kit car with a Buick motor. BUT then old age kicked in and I started to think what would happen if someone hit me.  Ill stick with my 88 RX7 Buick powered roller skate thats built like a tank !! I am SERIOUS !!

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Re: A picture a day....
« Reply #824 on: February 17 2012, 09:44:45 PM »
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