Throughout NASCAR’s 75-year history, there have been brand names on the front grilles of cars that have competed in the elite Cup Series. Today’s young crowd of fans quite possibly have never heard of ...

The story of the 1974 AMC Matador begins, like most of AMC’s great leaps, at the crossroads between audacity and desperation. By the early 1970s, American Motors was outnumbered, outspent, and ...

I remember AMC Matadors quite well from my childhood because I had a Scoutmaster who had one, and I remember that, as a small 12-year-old Boy Scout, I could sit very comfortably on the Matador's front ...

The AMC Matador Barcelona occupies a tiny but fascinating corner of 1970s American car culture, combining personal luxury styling with the contrarian instincts of American Motors Corporation.

The successor of the iconic Rebel-based model with the same awesome name, the 1971 Machine, was a high-performance intermediate forced to fly under the radar by rising insurance costs. Follow us: ...

DURING the 1971 model year, American Motors Corp. manufactured 11,000 units of the big Matador station wagons. The AMC Matadors were four-door wagons, with 6,800 units powered by the six-cylinder ...