{"id":474320,"date":"2010-03-26T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=41667"},"modified":"2010-03-26T09:00:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:00:46","slug":"1969-amx3-the-greatest-amc-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474320","title":{"rendered":"1969 AMX\/3: The Greatest AMC That Never Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-41668\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/1969-amx3-the-greatest-amc-that-never-was\/amc_amx3_front\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-41668\" title=\"AMC_AMX3_Front\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AMC_AMX3_Front-500x314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks like it wants to slice you open at the shins, doesn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s the AMX\/3 prototype, a mid-engine super car designed by the legendary <a title=\"Wikipedia - Dick Teague\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_A._Teague\" >Dick Teague<\/a> in 1969. It was AMC&#8217;s answer to the Pantera\u2014a slick, lightweight sports car with wicked good looks and vicious acceleration.\u00a0There&#8217;s a thumping, roaring 390 c.i. V-8 under that sexy bodywork, producing the kind of torque and horsepower that gives tires nightmares. It handles, too. The chassis work was done by Giotto\u00a0<a title=\"Bizzarrini\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bizzarrini\">Bizzarrini<\/a>, the legendary madman known for stuffing 327 c.i. Corvette V-8s into sexy Italian bodies. Unfortunately, the AMX\/3 never made it to full-scale production; the Oil Crisis killed any hopes of making the gas-swilling American rocket ship. A total of five running cars were built. Only a few of them survive today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/QUe6gLyodQgMEvNby7GMVUPi6Yw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/QUe6gLyodQgMEvNby7GMVUPi6Yw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/QUe6gLyodQgMEvNby7GMVUPi6Yw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/QUe6gLyodQgMEvNby7GMVUPi6Yw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like it wants to slice you open at the shins, doesn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s the AMX\/3 prototype, a mid-engine super car designed by the legendary Dick Teague in 1969. It was AMC&#8217;s answer to the Pantera\u2014a slick, lightweight sports car with wicked good looks and vicious acceleration.\u00a0There&#8217;s a thumping, roaring 390 c.i. V-8 under that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}