JohnRosa@JavelinAMX.com
The following are the pictures I've collected recently, trying to detail the differences between the 6 or 7 existing AMX/3s. Your opinions and observations are welcome and invited.
Note that I call each car by an arbitrary number I alone have assigned each. Hence, the car I call '#1' is not suggested to be the first AMX/3 built, nor the best one built. It's simply my way of tracking the pictures I have more easily. In fact, the numbers were assigned simply in the order I received them....no brainer.
Comments from John Mahoney:
#2 was fully operational with Italian (La Spezia)-built OTO Melara transaxle properly-mated to AMC's Machine 390, and -most likely- (though questions on this point remain, and it's possible that #5 really was the initially blue- painted "BMW" car...) was the car tested by Bizzarrini and Italian engineers from the Turin Polytechnic Institute on various public Alpine roads, by BMW staff members in the Munich labs, test track, and on the Nurburgring, where ex-race car driver Bizzarrini reportedly got the AMX/3 to a lift-threatening 145 mph (certain sources claim the car briefly saw a 160 mph top), as shown above Rosa's text "This picture could be of '#2' prior..." After shipment to the US, #2 went from AMC to an owner in MI, disappeared, and resurfaced near Indianapolis. It was offered for sale some years back for ~$200k. #2 is reportedly in less-than prime physical condition, lacks numerous original parts, and has been somewhat incorrectly modified. Since I can't call up his big color photos, I'm unsure if some of Rosa's pics depict this car at different points in its life (at one time -two- AMX/3s were owned by collectors in Indiana, to confuse me more), but Jack Cohen of Plainfield IN did own the car shown with Torque-Thrust wheels, raised wing, and unique badging that Rosa sites after "been seen with."
This picture could be of '#2' prior to it being painted red.
Some attributes to make note of for this car are the vertical side-marker lights and
brake scoops ahead of the rear tires, and the extra centered hood scoop.
The above pics show the car minus any 'AMX/3' side markings, and wearing 'Torque-Thrust D'-style wheels.
The above pics show the car wearing the unique AMX/3 wheels and minus any 'AMX/3' side markings,
while the rest show 'Torque-Thrust D'-style wheels and large, white 'AMX/3' side markings it has also been seen with.
JohnRosa@JavelinAMX.com