The year 1991 started off as a pretty good one for 25-year-old AMC fanatic Dave Goodwin. After four years of toil on his 1970 AM Javelin SST Mark Donohue Edition project, the potent pony car was ...

Granted, the Javelin never got a 400+ horsepower version to compete with the HEMI 'Cuda and the COPO Camaro, but AMC built a few cool limited-edition versions over the years—the Mark Donohue ...

but this 1970 AMC Javelin Mark Donohue Edition recently featured on Jay Leno's Garage shows why it should. The Javelin was AMC's rival to the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro, and Dodge Challenger ...

What Was the AMC Javelin Mark Donohue Special Edition? In 1970, legendary racer Mark Donohue and the Penske Racing team left Chevrolet to join forces with AMC, agreeing to pilot the Javelin in ...

The AMC Javelin, with its massive ... a mild 145HP inline six to the 401 c.i.d. V8 rocking 335HP. Driven by Mark Donohue and Roger Penske, the Javelin even won the Trans-Am championship in ...

AMC entered Javelin in SCCA’s Trans-Am series for ... sometimes fist to fist. Mark Donohue, Parnelli Jones, Dan Gurney and Peter Revson, along with teams called Penske, Bud Moore and Carroll ...

Mark Donohue took the championship ... Despite its Trans-Am dominance and limited production, the 1971 AMC Javelin AMX remains one of the most affordable ways to get into vintage muscle with ...

Driven by Mark Donohue, the 1971 AMC Javelin won the 1971 SCCA Trans-Am Championship with seven victories in 10 races that year. Upon Donohue’s completion of the race at Lime Rock in 1971 ...

See All 9 Photos That same year, AMC built two special-edition Javelin SSTs to homologate its Trans-Am participation--the Trans Am and the Mark Donohue. The Trans Am's equipment included the 390 V ...

Like most of its rivals, AMC entered the Javelin in the SCCA Trans Am series ... up for auction to promote the effort, as well as a Mark Donohue Edition in honor of Penske's star driver.

The year 1991 started off as a pretty good one for 25-year-old AMC fanatic Dave Goodwin. After four years of toil on his 1970 AM Javelin SST Mark Donohue Edition project, the potent pony car was ...

Jay Leno drives the Mark Donohue Edition, an often forgotten version of the Javelin, built to homologate the muscle car for the SCCA Trans-Am racing series. AMC joined the series in 1968 with ...