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Old 08-10-2019, 01:38 AM
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Default '69 AMC Javelin, Big Bad Blue

Neat car, originally a 290ci with a 3-speed manual trans. Needs a lot of love but at least it's a clean Southwest shell....

Link to 1969 AMC Javelin auction





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Old 08-11-2019, 12:33 AM
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I love that car. In the early 70's a friend of mines dad had the same car. BBB & Mod package. He had an AMX as well. I've wanted both ever since.

Do they repop all the parts for those cars? The one in the add needs almost everything other than possibly sheet metal.
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Old 08-11-2019, 01:17 AM
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When I was looking at an AMX a few years back, I couldn't find much that was available in the aftermarket. I think you'd have to start with something pretty decent and complete to avoid having to source a parts car.
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I have heard that the tail lenses are nearly impossible to find and, when you do, they're extremely expensive
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I love this body style and always wanted one in orange with a 390/4-speed. $550.00 for a grill, hardly any repo sheetmetal, etc cooled me on a project car. I cant think of a neater car than a Mark Donahue Javelin. GLWS and I hope the buyer gets this neat car back on the road.
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aftermarket support is catching up..lenses and tail housing are repopped and are very good...its the plastic stuff thats hard to find like grilles and dash housings etc..but they are getting more attention
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I'm the high bidder. Reserve not met.

I hope I can stop myself from bidding again. I have 6 projects in line already. I'm turning into a hoarder.
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Didn't meet reserve at $3,104.

That is a hard car for me to resist. I'm not sure of the value on these cars but I wouldn't feel bad at 5-6k.

I bought a '69 Firebird convertible project from a member here a couple months ago.
The first night I had my first car in the street in 1978 I got pulled over for street racing(stop light drags) my friend in his dad's BBB Javelin(I may have told the story before and said AMX, but their AMX was in gray primer. The Javelin was in BBB paint).
By that time I had moved to Decatur(Decatur High), he was still in the Shamrock High district and ran across each other cruising in Tucker(Tucker High).
I hadn't seen him in a few years and never saw him again. We didn't even speak that night. Just pulled up next to each other at a light and it was on.
He easily pulled away and I got caught by a train and then DeKalb PD. No tickets but he pulled my drunk buddy out of the car for running his mouth(the cops actually said "Outa the car, mouth."). I must have said "Shut up Dixon!" ten times before the cop stormed around to the passenger side of the car.

The cop told me to get some better mufflers and gave me a pass.

Dixon was my best friend. He had a '70 RAIII Trans Am. I told him I wanted a Formula(T/A) steering wheel for my Firebird and I would get his when he totaled the T/A since I couldn't find one in a junk yard. They were either bent or already gone.
Sure enough, he got drunk and totaled the T/A. Since he owed me $400 he gave me the T/A and we called it even.
It needed a right front fender and a right front suspension. Since this was 1980, I pulled the steering wheel and RAIII 400 and put them in my Firebird, parted the T/A out and got like $30 for the rest of it from a wrecker driver. The "rest of it" was almost the entire car.

My boy Dixon went on to total a Skylark, Celica, Toyota truck and probably 1 or two others that are lost to time. He went through rehab several times and finally made it out the other side clean. He's a great guy but doesn't have much memory of the stories I tell him from our wild past.

Sorry for the long boring story, but I guess that's why I like the cars I like. They're a time machine to go back 40 years for me.

Thanks for posting up the link Scuncio!
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