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Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper
You are joking right? AMC never used a Ford engine. They did however buy 4 cyl engines from BMW late 70s. I was buying up as many as I could find ripped out the motor and sold them at twice what I paid for the car .
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Not joking. We were sitting on the porch talking, and I thought my neighbor could not be right, no way. But I saw it with my own eyes. He opened the hood. There were Ford Motor Co tune up and emissions stickers and stamped plates with cubic inches plainly displayed. He said and I believed him that it came that way from the factory, and he bought it new for his wife. The car was not really all that old at that time. All the usual emissions stuff was there and looked very boring, typical, and factory to me, except for how big then engine was. We were wondering while standing there together and talking what on Earth a small car like this needed such a huge engine for. He had no idea why but said it would leave just about any other car in the dust. It was definitely a Gremlin. We figured AMC could have outsourced the engines, and I thought for years after that perhaps all of them were that way, but I haven't seen very many Gremlins.