Want sick power from a basically stock engine? Try a 401. Using factoryheads on the portly 4.170-inch bore, you can build torque where itcounts and still make good power on top with a reasonable cam, ...

This 1974 AMC Gremlin got a V8 engine swap to ape the special-edition Randall-built XRs of the day. This 1974 AMC Gremlin got a V8 engine swap to ape the special-edition Randall-built XRs of the day.

I can’t really talk about this 6.6-liter V8, four-speed tribute 1974 AMC Gremlin 401-XR without talking about the original, and we can’t talk about the original without talking about the basic compact ...

While no supercharged AMC 401 buildup can truthfully be called a budget effort, the plan was still to avoid breaking the bank on the way to horsepower-hero status. So Larry's decided to retain the ...

American Motors Corporation was the biggest independent carmaker in the seventies, which is to say it was the other American car company at the time that mattered. And sometimes, it actually kicked ...

American Motors Corporation spent the muscle car era fighting with fewer resources than its Detroit rivals, yet it managed to put some of the lightest V8 performance cars of the period on the street.

Although it ceased being an independent carmaker 35 years ago, AMC lives on in muscle car enthusiasts' hearts for building impressive rides that offered more bang for the buck than any of Detroit's ...

AMC = not cool. At least that's what enthusiasts who follow any of the Big Three brands would like you to believe. Remember the Gremlin? Yeah, these people like to make fun of that poor thing. But ...