Rebel Alongside A Prom Date: 1974 Amc Matador Coupe

Bathed inwards Hai Karate cologne together with looking for a fight. You odour him earlier you lot come across him. The guy taking your immature lady to the prom. He drives the red AMC Matador, parked inwards your spot, inwards the driveway. Pimples, sideburns together with a polyester leisure suit. Unassuming, but he's got no practiced intentions. He smiles, a scrap equally good assuredly, equally he thinks of the fun times ahead.
  Your confront reddens together with the low-cal that glows inwards the dorsum spot of that Matador is all you lot tin intend about. "My innocent daughter inwards that ..." 
  Get a grip, man! That flashback to 1974 was simply a dream. You know that all the AMC Matadors accept gone to hell, or a junkyard.

The AMC Matador coupe was produced from 1974-1978.

Defining style, sales 
  Advertisers volition say you lot that "newer is better." That mantra helped sell the new-for-1974 Matador coupe. The ambitious form of the Matador did non catch buyers for the long haul. The bulk of all AMC Matador coupes were sold inwards its commencement year, amongst 62,269 of the nearly 100,000 built during its five-year production run. The "new" wore off fast on AMC’s flagship mid-size, luxury coupe. The unmistakable styling, lured, together with thence repulsed buyers equally sales dwindled to 2,006 units during the 1978 yr model. 

AMC spruced-up the dash amongst woods grain on the confront of the gauges.

Matador parts rare, need low 

  It was non surprising when nosotros learned our characteristic car, spotted at Gibbs Salvage in Ridgeville, Alabama, was a 1974 model. The bold, Trans-Am Red AMC pigment clinging to the Matador wasn’t the exclusively affair that caught my eye. The  funky, quarter windows together with circular tail lights accept simply plenty European-flavor, to brand you lot squint, if your non familiar amongst the Kenosha, Wisconsin-built Matadors. 

  This junkyard bullfighter was missing its drivetrain, hood, radiator together with grille. All these wear/crash items are perhaps helping to consummate 1 of the rarest together with financially negligent restorations of whatsoever kind. The Matador. 

– Jody Potter, junkyardlife.com

We promise the hood, grill together with engine of this Matador were sourced for projection cars. No prom dates were harmed piece writing this story. 

Back spot mood lighting courtesy of Matador’s forward-thinking pattern team. Every fathers' nightmare. H5N1 house to speak or read or...

AMC’s Matador wheels characteristic middle caps that extend good beyond the border of the rim. Reminds me of the wheels used inwards the moving-picture present "Grease." Remember the Scorpions’ Mercury had blades on the wheels? 

AMC Matador coupe production numbers.

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