With the goal of shifting (no pun intended) the company's perception from economical to performance, AMC decided to unveil a sportier version of its Javelin and call it the AMX, which stood for ...

The cool thing about the PSMCDR series is that it can bring together classic muscle cars we rarely see on public roads today.

As with AMC's other 343-equipped cars of the 1960s, the Javelin switched to the 290-hp, 395 lb-ft 360 cubic inch V8 for 1970.