What's your motor vehicle history?

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I worked for a buddy one time in college doing some plumbing work.  (Yes, this is an 'old barn' story)  We did this repair job for an older gentleman which turned out to be a lot bigger than any of us thought.  The bill came to more than he could pay (not by a lot).  My buddy was a good guy, so he was just going to let it go.  The guy was pretty old and lived alone.  Well, he was having none of that...he was determined to pay the bill (dammit!).  Said he had an old car sitting out in the garage my buddy could have if he wanted it.  Said his son left it there like 20 years before and then disappeared.  Long story short...we went out to is barn and he yanked the car cover off of a showroom new '69 AMC AMX, one of the ones with the old 397 GO-PAC engines in it, and 4 spd Hurst trans, complete with the Sidewinder exhausts.  WOW!  That car was worth a metric sh**-ton of money as it sat, and despite my buddy's efforts to pay this guy for the car, he was having none of it.  Said he just wanted rid of it because it reminded him of his long lost son.  Even though it was 100 miles from his shop, we went got a trailer and went and picked that car up that afternoon.  No kidding!

True story too.

P.S. - I'm never this lucky!!!

This is why I love talking cars, I never knew AMC had a muscle car, so cool and I bet it is rare AH too. Was the AMX a Javelin?

I remember the Gremlin, Pacer vaguely the Javeline never knew AMC had so many models. Here in the south it was Ford, Chevy 

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