Re: RE:Javelin/AMX

From: Jon Steiger (stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 17 1998 - 19:11:58 EST


At 06:22 PM 12/17/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, if it was an AMC it did not have a 440 in it. The best AMC had to
>offer was a 401, I believe around 360HP in the best version. Or, are you
>telling us it had a 440 Chrysler engine in it? That would be cool! AMC used
>Chrysler Torqueflite trannies though. A real good automatic, if there ever
>was one. My old shop teacher in HS had a brand-new '74 Javelin AMX with the
>401 and a 4-speed. Periwinkle blue, black top and interior. Sharp car. All
>us kids were drooling! -Bill
>

  Yep, it was a Chrysler 440. (Very few of the cars at this place were
anywhere near stock.) There was a big sheet attached to the windshield
with all the mods that had been done to it, along with the engine specs and
stuff. The car originally came with a 401, but someone put a 440 in it.

                                               -Jon-

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