Amx s/s

[Bob Rice]

Here's what a former owner had to say about the car.

This is my old car. I bought it in the mid 70s from CA Cox AMC in Wollaston,
MA. after the owner of the dealership passed away. The owner's son Bruce raced
this from 1969 until he was actually killed at the track racing another car in
early 70s. The car sat for a few years when I bought it, and kept it until
2004. I met a lot of people at various events that knew the car well, to include
people there the day Bruce was killed. These cars were consistent low 10,
occasional 9 second cars from the factory, and the SS/E records were held by
Pete's Patriot and Shirley Shahan's Drag-On Lady cars for ET and MPH. AMC made
53 of these cars at the Hurst facility in Ferndale, MI with 52 sequential VINs
and an earlier prototype. (Garrett Ghezzi owns and still races the prototype
car). Some other cars were made by Hurst out of sequence, but nobody knows how
many but one is documented-the Canadian Honker, still owned by the original
owner but not raced in years.

When I bought this car it had a lot of paperwork from Hurst that was sent to the
owners of the 52 cars. As a matter of fact, this car had more paperwork than any
other car except for the VIN specific stuff, like bulletins, updates, etc.
Probably not done by Hurst but certainly a period correct car that did have all
the correct part number stuff:

The all metal hood scoop, hammered out and not stamped.
Correct carbs-Holley made the #4584 carbs just for this car, so not a lot out
there. I traded the original part numbered carbs to ken Freeman who raced an
AMX and lived down the cape not far from me. He needed a correct set of carbs a
lot more than me, and it was in the late 80s when the old race cars were really
not worth a ton of money like now. Aris Asdorian currently owns and races Ken's
old car. It does not have the correct forged axles, but when I bought it the car
had the nodular case Ford 9"-kind of a no brainer as it bolted right in without
any mods at all. I gave that rearend to a friend who was restoring a Shelby
Mustang and put a stock AMC rear with the 4.44 gears. Otherwise it has the
correct block-off plates, intake, wiring, battery relocation, distributor, etc.
etc.

Unfortunately the AMC crowd is very narrow minded and feels if it is not an
original VIN sequenced car built by Hurst it is worthless, and there have been
so many discussions on the AMC forums about everything wrong with the car that
the reserve is actually almost met. (And a real Hurst AMX, #3, is currently for
sale for $135K. The #29 car recently sold for $150K).

For more info on the Hurst Super Stock AMX program be sure to visit my website:

www.superstockamx.com

Thomas M. Benvie
5 Sachem Rock Ave
East Bridgewater, MA 02333