The Beginning of the 1968 AMX Restoration Project

Note: I'm only going to add very short descriptions with pictures right now. I'll get actual journal-type posts in later.

At the beginning of this project, I knew next to nothing about classic cars, or cars in general. Still don't know much. Information about different stock market/investment strategies sticks in my head great, but stuff about cars never seems to quite as well. Hopefully that obvious mental deficiency gets fixed over time. Anyways, I got into this project because the engine was very shiny, I've always

liked projects, and the package deal of $4500 for everything seemed too good to pass up. So, here's a photo of the AMX in Jim's driveway. As you can see, he'd been trying to shade-tree mechanic his way through the restoration. The suspension, frame, and engine were the only parts of the car that appeared to have been restored. After his wife had taken my dad and I on a tour through the garage and two sheds, we had determined that most of the parts were there, except for some small bits, the seats and the hood. The seats had oh so mysteriously disappeared when shipped off to an upholstery shop, and since the driveway was open to the back alleyway, I deduced that it had "walked off". After paying, we took our

trailer, loaded up everything over the course of a few trips, and brought all the parts home. When loading the car body, everyone in the family got to help push/pull it onto the trailer, while Dad used the come-along to add some extra tugging power. We attached the come-along to the core support, which you AMC lovers will know tends to damage it. Guess what happened?

I got to figure out how to store all the parts in either the garage or that shed you can see in the background of the picture. For the next year, I went out a couple times a month to figure out how to sort parts in a somewhat neater fashion, and looked online for a shop. I had no clue what I was getting into.

I'm just going to add some other photos down here of the car and engine here.