78% of our readers say that , but what happens when we look at a no-joke classic machine from the Golden Age Of The Musclecar?

Even non-AMC freaks appreciate the original AMX (reviews are much more mixed for the ), but the days of snapping one up for cheap are decades in the past. You want a really nice two-seater AMX, you must pay. But must you pay $45,000? That's what we're dealing with here. The car looks great: original California car, stripped and repainted, all the original accessories down to the canned spare-tire air, etc… but it's not a 4-speed and that price is a real jolt. What do you think?

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