While never managing to quite muscle itself into the conversation of joining the big three American car manufacturers, namely Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler, at the top of the tree ...

AMC tended to keep things simple with its range of V8 muscle car engines, only offering differing sizes built on the same block throughout its relatively short history. It preferred to develop ...

Capable of running the quarter-mile in 14.3 seconds right off the showroom floor, it was quicker than most established muscle cars of the era. AMC produced 1,512 units in two paint schemes.

At the same time, muscle cars were built as drag cars ... and other authoritative sources, including AMC, Chrysler, and Ford. Drag cars are in chronological order.