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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums1978 AMC Model Lineup
Sigh. This makes me want to go home and turn on an episode of CHiPs.
As usual, I can't link to the image at Jalopnik. Here is the catalog:
A Pacer wagon at the thoroughbred farm. Sure.
Ohiogal
(32,006 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,489 posts)by Rob Sass on Thursday, June 26th, 2014
The Crown Vic was the most widely used police car and taxi in the U.S. and Canada, and although theyre starting to give way to the Dodge Charger, they still show up in the rearview mirrors of speeders everywhere
The cop show genre goes back to the pre-TV days of radio (where you had to imagine what black and white your favorite cop was driving).
Here are some favorite full-size, rear-wheel-drive American cop cars from 60 years of the best cop shows:
Adam 12 (1972 AMC Matador)
Although it was shot in the 1970s, in many ways, Adam 12 was a throwback to 1950s cop shows in which gangs, heroin dealers and street snitches didnt exist and officers Reed and Malloy played by Kent McCord and Martin Milner rarely drew their guns, let alone actually capped anyone. In seasons five through seven, they drove an AMC Matador. In actuality, the LAPD was always a strong supporter of underdog American Motors; they owned more than 500 Matador black and whites at one time.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)He literally had trouble keeping the front wheels on the ground if he hit the gas at a stop light.
Eventually, he did that too often and tore the rear axle right off the car.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)He drove a 1969 Javelin AMX and spent thousand and thousands of dollar customizing and tweaking the muscle car.
Blue Owl
(50,425 posts)What's the difference -- like 4 sq. feet?
Time has not been kind to the design of these cars...
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I used to live (less than a decade ago) in a neighborhood where there were two Eagles. I would take walks just to look at them.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,489 posts)The world's first sport-utility wagon. Back in, what? 1991, maybe, I saw one driving through an abandoned railroad tunnel.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,489 posts)I thought they couldn't take that.
They could be 10-mph crash bumpers. It varied.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Also, I'm pretty sure they bought that car with the intention of modifying it, so they could have started with the bumpers. Even before the modification began, though, it was impressive!
To me the Eagle always looked way better than say a Subaru. They just look tough. To be honest, though, I don't know how good AMC engineering was. They could have just fallen apart.