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Money No Object: A Revisit On The Dirt-Tracker AMC With This 1968 AMX?


Money No Object: A Revisit On The Dirt-Tracker AMC With This 1968 AMX?

In 2009, one of the earliest exploits of the fledgling BangShift.com involved a 1968 AMC Javelin that had been built into some kind of dirt-track race machine of some kind that had changed hands a few dozen times. Freiburger owned it at one point, Lohnes owned it after a relay dubbed “The Red Ball Express” went down that was composed of readers and forum members ferrying the derelict AMC eastwards, and at one point I know I was bidding on eBay to buy the car…and as history reveals, it was probably for the better that I wasn’t the high bidder, because that would’ve been a financial shitshow of epic proportions. But there was a draw to the battered Javelin: the red/white/blue paint scheme, the white wagon-spoke wheels, the “rollcage” that probably belonged to someone’s sink piping or maybe came off of a junked Chevy truck’s exhaust…it was a ton of bad ideas rolled into one car but I always thought it should’ve been finished up and turned into something psychotic and rowdy, and certainly dirt-oriented.

If I hadn’t gotten lucky enough to find one of the maybe three pictures still left of the old Dirt Track Javelin, I would’ve sworn that the last ten years had been incredibly kind to it. But we had a Javelin, not a legitimate AMX, and without knocking over a small bank, we would’ve never had it this nice. Other than the nice street car vibe, this AMX has it going in our eyes…360, what sure looks like a four-speed to us, everything. It’s not perfect but that just means we’d be more than willing to take it out on drives and show it off at every turn. We’d have to find wider front wheels and match up the tires, but why mess with anything else?

Facebook Marketplace link: 1968 AMC AMX (#6620)


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One thought on “Money No Object: A Revisit On The Dirt-Tracker AMC With This 1968 AMX?

  1. ksj2

    Red Ball Express was so much fun to take part in. Took awhile but it finally arrived at the Lohnes Estate. Then he sold it.LOL.

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