The 1970 AMC Rebel Machine is mainly recognizable due to its tri-color patriotic color scheme, but the muscle car was also available in solid paints.

While the American car market was booming in the '50s, independent carmakers were struggling in the face of the financial might of GM, Chrysler, and Ford, with Packard shutting down for business by ...

Matt Nelson is an automotive journalist with nearly a decade of experience in all things cars. He's spent years working at dealerships in sales, finance, and service. He's since traded in his pens and ...

Chad has been a muscle car and classic truck lover since he could walk. The classic vehicles from the '60s and '70s are the best in his eyes, but he is more than willing to give the new technology a ...

The Rebel Machine by American Motor Corp. was a muscle car for someone who did not want to blow their entire savings on a vehicle, but still wanted bang-for-your-buck muscle. Despite the Rebel Machine ...

Q: I enjoy the nostalgia articles in my hometown newspaper The Gainesville Sun. The recent Cars We Remember section was really fun to read, and I enjoyed the AMC history of high performance. One AMC ...

The AMC Rebel Machine arrived at the height of the muscle car wars with the power, attitude, and engineering to run with ...

That authoritative shout-out was created by American Motors' advertising agency, Wells, Rich, Greene, to draw attention to AMC's new youth-oriented high-performance intermediate. Like the phenomenally ...

Produced from 1967 to 1970, the AMC Rebel was a rather short-lived nameplate. But it spawned a few cool muscle cars, the most famous of which is the Rebel Machine, AMC's halo performance car for 1970.

The American Motors Corporation would be considered an afterthought, except not that many people remember them. They were always in last place behind the Big Three American automakers, and then were ...

Q: I enjoy the nostalgia articles in my hometown newspaper The Gainesville Sun. The recent Cars We Remember section was really fun to read, and I enjoyed the AMC history of high performance. One AMC ...