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Killer eBay Find: A One Off Late 1970s AMC Road Racer With Trans-Am History


Killer eBay Find: A One Off Late 1970s AMC Road Racer With Trans-Am History

Naturally when BangShifters think about the AMC brand and road racing, thoughts of Mark Donohue and company wheeling Javelins around in the late 1960s and early 70s jump to the front of their minds. With the discovery of this neato race car that began life as a 1977 Hornet AMX, there’s something else to think about. Raced from 1978 until the mid 1990s in various series and classes, this is one totally unique race car. 

What started life as a Hornet AMX in 1977 was changed into a Concord body just a scant couple years later to keep current with the field. Power came from a Traco racing engines built 366ci AMC mill. Only the cylinder heads from that engine are left, but that’s the gold anyway. It wouldn’t be much to stick a nice short block together and bolt those unobtanium heads on it.

While the whole car is intact, it has not seen action since the mid 1990s. Luckily it has lived in dry California storage, so any decay has not been significant. Make no mistake, the whole shooting match will have to be gone through, but the beauty is that it is all there to start with.

It raced in the SCCA Trans Am series, IMSA GT series, Kelly American Series, and a bunch of SCCA regional road races during a long career. We didn’t see a lot of wins of podium finished in the past, but at this point, just having a machine that literally no one else has would be well worth the adventure of getting the car back into race shape.

This is one odd, and totally awesome AMC!

Thanks for the tip HotRodCharlie!

(AMC Concord Trans-Am Racer) 

AMX Dyno sheet

AMC Road Racing

AMX carving corners! 


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