Re: [AMC-list] matador machine

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I saw a white one come and go on Tewell's lot in Uniontown, Pa.
Back around 78-79.
It was already rusty at that point, pretty sure it is a soup can by now :(
Yes, I wanted it, no I did not have a job yet.
Big old white two door with the 401 badges on the fenders, sigh...
Oh, almost forgot, it also had a massive tow hitch on the rear, equalizer bars were in the trunk and all!
Somebodies tow rig for sure!

Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"

----- "Ken Ames" <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: "Ken Ames" <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Rambler AMC, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:53:59 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] matador machine
>
> AFAIK there were 133 1973 Matador 2door 401s. I have 1 and years ago
> saw the
> remains of another.
> 
> Ken 
> 
> 
> Quoting Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > Hi Larry, yes, there are 3 known to still exist, I need to update
> that file
> > on my site, 
> > and am updating a mess of files on my site, just finished the SC/360
> Registry
> > for instance 
> > (was 14 hours!).
> > The fellow who owns the Wnek Matador Machine
> > 
> > http://www.planethoustonamx.com/stuff/matador_machine.htm
> > 
> > that Brad restored, and changed to red after rotisserie years ago,
> not only
> > does he own 
> > the cars Larry mentions down below, but also James Garner's Baja 4x4
> Hurst
> > SC/Rambler;
> > 
> > http://www.planethoustonamx.com/press_photos/baja_scrambler1.jpg
> > 
> > http://www.planethoustonamx.com/press_photos/baja_scrambler2.jpg
> > 
> > 
> > (mentioned), a few years ago bought the Bonanza SS/AMX (the one that
> appeared
> > in the CHiPs 
> > series with Ponch & Jon)
> > 
> >
> http://www.planethoustonamx.com/amx_photos/69_ssamx_bonanza_garage.jpg
> > 
> > this is the Vignale many AMCers call the AMX 1
> > 
> > http://www.planethoustonamx.com/press_photos/66amx_1_color.jpg
> > 
> > and the prototype AMX/2
> > 
> > http://www.planethoustonamx.com/press_photos/amx_2.jpg
> > 
> >  which for many years, was stuck on top of a pole at a used car
> dealership in
> > PA. 
> > Interesting story there, I believe I have some photos of that on my
> site, but
> > if anyone 
> > wants to see it perched way up in air at Cal Worthington & his dog
> Spot (or
> > whatever 
> > cheesy old car used car lot it was) email me.
> > 
> > Back to Matador Machines......you could still get a 2 door sedan
> Matador with
> > 360 or 401 
> > in 1972, but no mention of the 'Machine' package. Something I have
> never seen
> > is the 
> > NASCAR Matador package from 1973 though. AMC used to give out big
> decal sets
> > at major 
> > NASCAR events so people could slap on their 71-73 Matador 2 doors. I
> have
> > never seen it. 
> > Know it exists, but just never seen it! Sort of like those big Trans
> Am
> > Javelin fiberglass 
> > scoops AMC passed out at big events in late 68 and then 69 for
> Javelin. Some
> > of those 
> > still remain, had a chance to buy a NOS one about 10 years ago, big,
> bulky
> > thing.
> > 
> > http://www.planethoustonamx.com/Photo_Gallery_press/magazinead1.jpg
> > 
> > I believe I still has set of NOS instructions to install one here,
> not that I
> > would want a 
> > scoop the size of Pacer passenger door on my 68-69 Javelin hood, but
> that is
> > what AMC was 
> > using in Trans Am racing,
> > Eddie Stakes
> > 713.464.8825
> > eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > www.planethoustonamx.com
> > =====================
> > Larry From The Desert Mentioned:
> > "Pat Wnek sold his Matador Machine many years ago. It wound up on
> the East
> > coast under 
> > going
> > a complete redo as it needed a new floor. The car cost a fortune to
> redo and
> > wound up
> > in Canada painted RED in the collection of the very wealth man who
> has an
> > AMX3, the 4WD
> > 1969 Sc/Rambler and who is redoing the 1966 Vignale AMX. His Matador
> Machine
> > was in a
> > copy of Hemmings Muscle cars a year plus ago. Interestingly all
> these rare
> > AMCs are his 
> > daily
> > drivers to save ware and tear on his storage buildings full of
> Million dollar
> > Ferraris and 
> > Lambos.
> > Terry Gale at the rambler ranch may have another 71 Matador Machine,
> an
> > automatic so there 
> > many be 3. LRDaum"
> > 
> > 
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