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dream a little dream; what might have been... the AMX 2 and the AMX 3

get over to the San Diego Auto Museum in Balboa park to see the only one on public display

AFX Marlin... never heard of it before

Preston Honea's

The AMX 3 is back! It's back at the SD Auto Museum

It's been gone for a couple of years now... get in to see it while it's there. If you're uncertain what an AMX-3 is, it was a prototype that wound up to be more expensive than the Corvette, so AMC scrapped the idea. The engine was a 390 mid engine mount, the design was from Dick Teague, and they made about 6 or so in Turin Italy with Bizzarini, scrapped a couple after shutting down the project, but Dick kept 2, and one was buried in a private garage and never seen again.
For the full history of the AMX-3: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/01/heres-background-story-on-amx3-love.html
For photos of the yellow one, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/beautiful-amx-3.html

Saturday racing at San Diego's Fleetweek Speedfest

Photographers are happy because we get to be feet away from racecars while they speed by, and we get really close up, like the photo below illustrates

The above wasn't zoomed in at all.