Get a Mopar man. To identify that --- good or gosh-awful --- thing! >> but remember tex smith's xr-7, with a rare aluminum slant six - '63/4 iirc. he was playing with asymmetry and the slant fit the bill. << ...but he was playing with a deck dealt earlier by Ex and Ghia (and, FWIW, in the dustbin of AMC history, revisited when the silver-blue customized AMX-Gremlin one-off that everyone seems to have forgotten was built by AMC as well) If it were a 340 or 440 and didn't have Valiant badges, I'D be there. If it's a Monica [ya never heard of?] or a Monteverdi, it's VALUABLE. If it's a Ghia mule for a Plymouth or Dodge showcar, it's A TREASURE. http://www.shorey.net/Auto/American/Chrysler/Plymouth/Explorer/1952%20Plymou th%20Explorer%20Ghia%20Sport%20Coupe%20green=i.jpg And if words do not turn into images, it's time for your IMAGINATION. Low nose? Mopar motor? European coachwork? http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B33443.jpg in particular, the one model bodied by Fissore http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B7257-2.jpg http://www.tobiasullrich.de/monteverdi/cars/hs375sfi/img6.jpg that evoked a Duncan McRae-altered Packard Hawk http://postcardsfromtheroad.net/images/58hawk.jpg and an Albrecht Goertz-involved Datsun Fairlady http://www.nissannews.com/multimedia/nd_50_anni/800/production_1969_fairlady %20z_s30_.jpg (of whose history Nissan is PROUD) http://www2.nissan.co.jp/Z/top.html (a bit more than DC is of its AM heritage) that Goertz did --- or DID NOT --- design. http://zhome.com/ (Click around in "The True History" to learn more); why, oh why, can't the AMC experts do comparably exhaustive --- and interesting --- work? Uncommon European-American cars from the '60s? Go, Go. http://www.carphoto.ch/diverses/monteverdi/DSCN1366.jpg http://www.carphoto.ch/diverses/monteverdi/DSCN1369.jpg or the example currently for sale --- in California http://www.bdmclassiccars.com/Monteverdi375SSII.html http://www.tobiasullrich.de/monteverdi/market/375sfi.html (and for more AMC content, the later three built that were almost proverbial spitting images of what woulda coulda shoulda been the AMC AMX/3:) http://www.movit.de/images/monthai0.jpg http://www.movit.de/images/monthai.jpg http://www.autosrapidos.com/superautos/m/monteverdi-hai450ss.htm If you've done a full Monte, dance another Mopar V-8 with Monica http://pages.infinit.net/amphilot/monica/monica.htm http://www.oldtimersweb.be/jansartikelen/kleinemerkenmonica.htm http://www.histomobile.com/1/Monica/1972/350_.htm?lan=1 She, too, is waiting (in California) for your call. http://www.bdmclassiccars.com/Monica.html And finally, if you need any more proof that American --- not just American Motors' --- fans should set their goalposts sosmewhat higher, visit http://pboursin.club.fr/autohi3j.htm http://pboursin.club.fr/auto0.htm in awe. Its fiberglass page, alone http://pboursin.club.fr/pdgcarr2.htm could shame Americans into reality. We're second-rate car lovers! Third rate when we lose what little info is known. 6/10-15 posts? Ralph asked for volunteers; that AMC knowledge bin is still empty. Someday, there may be no new info to lose: AMC dead/AMC fans dumb? When the Dodge Challenger returns (as it will for MY 2009), "Javelin" will be mostly one word in the press release about pony-muscle-era roots. That Mercedes Mopar (with, of course, available V-8 HEMI) will join Mustang (~200,000 units for 2005) in making money on nostalgia. And as AMX/Javelin/SC/Rambler/Machine/SC/360 prices continue to rise, AMC fans will be happy. "Camaro" will be revived; "T-bird" will again fly. Life in America will be exactly like it was when AMC was alive. In our imagination. Time to drive home in my new 2005 Pierce-Arrow --- one of the best cars still built in Buffalo NY --- or in the world.