The AMC Javelin made history as the first pony car used as a standard vehicle for highway policing by an American law enforcement agency. The Javelin was actually selected as a lower-priced ...

They found one in the 1971 AMC Javelin, a true muscle car. The cash-strapped Alabama police turned to AMC because their Ford prices had risen, and cash-strapped AMC was happy to earn the business.

1971-74 AMC Javelin AMX: +10 percent AMC Though the AMX started life as a two-seater, AMC pivoted for 1971 and made AMX the top trim level at in the Javelin lineup. A spruced-up interior, revised ...

For those who want something a little different from the usual Detroit Three muscle-car fare, this 1970 AMC Javelin SST Trans Am Edition will be part of an upcoming Mecum auction in Dallas ...

Among the rarest of the American muscle cars that went racing in the early Seventies — cars including the Camaro Z/28 and the Boss 302 Mustang — the 1970 AMC Trans Am Javelin SST may be the ...

The first police car made its debut as an electric wagon in Akron, Ohio in 1899. That was followed by the first installation of an in-car radio in 1928 in Detroit, Michigan. At the time, seemed pre… ...

The AMC Javelin 401 was simply too fast. Only 132 cars were ever built for the Alabama Public Safety Department, and the vehicles had a rough life (catching ‘shine-runners wasn’t a white ...

The idea by auto manufacturers to outfit base model cars with high-performance options to use as police cars gained traction in the '60s until it became a common part of the business. In the '80s ...

Gear heads probably have noticed the special cars in the show, like Nacho’s AMC Javelin. Some are classic or unusual cars, long gone into automotive history and forgotten.

One of the first big extractions was posted to Collier Motors AMC’s Facebook page, outlining the removal of a 1970 AMC Javelin whose rear fender had begun to be assimilated by a tree.

The 1968 AMC Javelin SST. American Motors Corp. announces on Aug. 22, 1967, plans to introduce the 1968 Javelin, joining Detroit's pony car wars dominated by the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro.

With names like Javelin and Matador, AMC cars of the 1970s had large V-8s with plenty of fins and flippers to attract America's youth. Here are the greats in no particular order. AMC Gremlin 1970-1978 ...