in the past week or so sense i got the car painted its been called
 
a pinto
a chevette
a citation
a dodge omni
a dodge pinto from some over served fool   who when i said ''its an AMC'' he said who makes it dodge  
only on friday night did someone get close and called it a AMC AMX so i kindly corrected them and explained that its just a regular spirit but they did make them AMX's also
 
there's no name badges on it anywhere except on the glove box door

I beat a speeding ticket, err, um, I mean traffic ticket, when the police officer wrote Dodge Coronet when I got stopped in one of my Machines back in the '70s

I would have thought Plymouth Arrow for the Spirit

I have a Viper yellow 79 Spirit with no badging on it and I get alot of "What is that?" I take it as a compliment just because in the car shows and cruise nights that I have been too and being surrounded by Camaro's, Mustangs, Chevelle's, Nova's, Corvette's and numerous "Fast & Furious" wannabe's it's great to have a car thats different. I bought this car to be different after being on the verge of buying a last generation Trans Am.  
Attending many car shows and cruise nights I have always enjoyed the cars that were off the beaten track of what is usually out there. These owners are generally are more creative and resourcefull which shows in their cars.
 
It's good to be different!
 
Derek

A bunch of years back, a dad was telling his kid all about AMC's at a car show I attended with one of our 79 AMX's. He told about the 390 and 4 speed his buddy had, and how fast it was and AMC made a 4x4 car, so the kid looks at the AMX, [with big huge N-50-15 in the rear, and some pizza cutter front tires]and says, so like this thing is 4 wheel drive then? To which his dad says yeah, my buddies was made the year before I just left well enough alone.   SH

So I'm at the gas station fueling up in my '73 Jav/AMX, which is always a real PITA. This guy pulls up to the traffic light on a loud ass Harley. While waiting for the light he sees me and starts screaming to his girl on the back of his bike...HEY...LOOK...IT...IT's...IT'SA...AAAAH...MATADOR!!!  MATADOR??? That's a first! Everybody else pumping gas is looking at me like why is this guy screaming at you?   So now he's sitting over there gloating because in his mind he remembered it like it was yesterday. My guess is yesterday, just like today, he was stoned!   Is a Matador considered even being close to a humpster? NOT! The flying brick, Oleg Cassini, and opera windows be darned! This aint no round tracker, don't he know this does more than turn left? My P-code won every Trans Am race single handedly?  I just shook my head. When his light turned green of course, he had to give me the pipes, which confirmed in my mind that he was an idiot. I supposed I got the pipes because I didn't run over there and give him a high five or something for nailing it! In hindsight, I really feel sorry for his girl.   She must have really bad luck picking men!

I hate the harley pipes.  If I drove around in my car with open pipes I'd be ticketed in a heartbeat.   I have, when driving by a harley, open the electric cutouts and hit it.
Just to get back for all the times I need to listen to those awful sounding things.

Quote from Ex-Government Rebel on 09/03/09 at 20:19:36:

 
too bad the 67 isn't a split window  
 
the split window was a 63, one year only  
 
390spirit