Amc Musclecars

11/03/2025

So it looks like my AZ AMC Restorations shop will be taking on the restoration of a Commodore Blue, 390 4 spd with factory AC 1970 AMX as an in house project as the owner has decided he does not want to continue the restoration on the car. It is doubtful that I will be keeping this one, so we will be looking for a new owner who wants a 70 AMX with bullet proof forged rotating assembly factory 390 engine with around 370 HP which is where our mostly stock 390 builds end up. With any luck the car will come in at a lower cost than you would have to pay to have one you already owned and wanted us to restore it. If anyone is interested, feel free to contact me. The first picture is the state of how the car is now and the other pictures and video are of an auto tr**ny equipped car that we are just now finishing up

10/06/2025

I had some fun setting up a little more garage art Sunday afternoon. I wonder if anyone will notice when they come for a visit! LOL

09/22/2025

I have a question for members. As a background, I suspect most of you were aware of my RWB AMC collection that made it onto the cover of the May 2024 Hemmings Muscle Machines magazine. And perhaps some of you were also aware that I sold the collection later in the year due to uncertainty regarding my longevity due to the discovery of a medical issue that signficantly limited my ability to drive them which is now thankfully behind me. But at the time I made the decision to sell the collection, the outcome of my medical condition was unpredictable so I made the tough decision to sell the collection but only to someone who wanted to keep them together. Part of the sale was an agreement to put a fresh and date code correct 70 390 engine in the TA Javelin (it had the typical warranty service block replacement engine) and repaint the engine bay plus refresh the engine and clean up and repaint the engine bay in the Rebel Machine as well. The buyer contracted a carrier that he knew from his business who made two trips with his covered flat bed tractor trailer in early 2025 to pick up all 5 cars. Knowing the the collection would soon be gone, my darling wife got permission from the article's author and the magazine's editor to have the cover reproduced so she coule give me a large size framed picture of it as a surprise Christmas present which is now hanging in my garage. I had been looking to display all the custom license plates that I had for each car together with the framed picture and today I finally got around to putting them all together.

So here is the big question I welcome feedback on. I can either leave the plates as shown with good alignment of each plate near the appropriate car OR should I move the picture over to one side or the other so the plates can be positioned in the exact order show in the picture rather than split them up on each side of the picture. What is your opinion? Do you recommend leaving it as is or should I move the picture over to one side so the plates can be next to it in the same order and alignment as the cars in the picture? They are in effect already aligned like the picture but they are separated which is different from the picture. Your thoughts and opinions will be much appreciated.

09/18/2025

The Commodore Blue 390 auto AMX is nearly completed. This one had a ton of tin worm damge which literally required a couple of hundred hours of metal work throughout the body plus installing multiple patch panels, but it is drop dead gorgeous now. We still have to get the new R134A compatible hoses made (it goes in next Monday for that work) and have the white C Stripe installed. Pluse we use a crusty old shop owned driver's seat until the car is ready to go home but it is otherwise done.

07/22/2025

We always try to do a final photo shoot on every car we restore. This one is a particularly interesting restoration in that it was a bare chassis with no doors, no glass, no hood, no fender and no interior when we started. It also has a full 3" X pipe with electric dumps plus Ultraflow welded mufflers and sounds great. It came out really nice!

05/26/2025

Now that we have the Cordoba Brown 73 Javelin AMX up and running and looking pretty good with its silver wheels it is time to give it a paint job after which it will be officially offered up for sale. We can paint it in either its factory original Cordoba Brown with a gold hood stripe or do a color change to something like black with a new vinyl and metal door tag (add $1500 for a color change - black would look amazing!). It can be had with the 727 auto tr**ny it was born with or the current T-5 (we have installed a shorter shifter handle than what is shown in the pictures) for $50,500 or with a TKX for $55.5K . The car now has a 100% rust free body and the reamaining paint and bodywork will be done to perfection just like all the other cars we restore at AZ AMC Restorations. This engine is scary powerful with a balanced and blueprinted, fully forged rotating assembly .045 over 401 for a total of 409.82 cubic inch displacement. It also has Edelbrock aluminum heads, Wisco forged piston and Scorpion roller rockers, Summit 8601 cam with Crane pump down lifters (similar to the old Rhodes lifters) for a fairly smooth idle yet it pulls like a frieght train. It also has an Offy 360 single plane intake with functional cowl induction and big tube full length headers at roughly 500HP or perhaps even a little more. The rear end is currently equpped with Calvert Racing monoleaf rear springs but those can be replaced with factory style leaf springs if desired. It also has Caltrac traction bars, one piece axles and Wilwood Racing front disc brakes with factory rear drums with all new hard and soft brake and fuel lines. All suspension has new Prothane bushings and it handles and drives amazing. If you already owned this car and brought it to us to do the work already done on it, the cost would exceed the asking price so whoever buys this car will basically get the car itself for free.

04/19/2025

04/17/2025

If anyone needs a car or truck open transported between Phoenix and LV, Nevada, I have an open trailer goint there next week. I have a removable diamonplate fairing for the front of the trailer that can be put back on for the trip

If anyone needs a car or truck open transported between Phoenix and LV, Nevada, I have an open trailer goint there next week. I have a removable diamonplate fairing for the front of the trailer

04/17/2025

The 73 Javelin AMX with a killer balanced and blueprinted 500+ HP 401 and World Class T5 needs to find a new home and is for sale wtih a 100% straight and rust free body for $34,500.

Here is a 1973 AMC Javelin AMX with a killer balanced and blueprinted aluminum head equipped 401 engine with a T5 transmission (or a choice of a T-10 or eve...

04/10/2025

These two look pretty good together and the shortened 70 ram air hood (closed off) on my 68 AMX with the crossram cam intake came out pretty darn nice!

04/07/2025

The brown 73 Javlin AMX is looking much better after an orbital buffing machine job as shown in the walkaround video: https://youtu.be/Bp1sQ-HD6FQ

04/06/2025

The end of a nearly 40 years obsession with RWB AMC cars has drawn to a close. The last one left for a new home today.