Editing AMC AMX (section)

===AMX-R===
[[File:Car show view from Gilmore bus 9 (1143620025) AMX-R.jpg|thumb|AMX-R at the 2007 Gilmore Car Museum car show]]

The original AMX's "Ramble" seat idea was considered for possible production.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Strohl |first=Daniel |title=Ramble(seat) on |magazine=Hemmings Muscle Machines |date=November 2009 |url= http://www.hemmings.com/mus/stories/2009/11/01/hmn_feature7.html |access-date=26 June 2010}}</ref> A working prototype was built in 1968 from a regular AMX by James Jeffords, a designer-customizer, and was named the AMX-R.<ref name=amx-r>{{cite magazine |url= http://www.hagerty.com/lifestyle/hobby_article.aspx?id=34642 |last=Peterson |first=West |title=1968 AMX-R |magazine=Hagerty Lifestyle |date=1 May 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110721013126/http://www.hagerty.com/lifestyle/hobby_article.aspx?id=34642 |archive-date=21 July 2011 |access-date=21 March 2012}}</ref> Jeffords was also head of the Javelin Trans Am Racing Team for AMC.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mitchell |first=Larry G. |title=AMC Muscle Cars |publisher=MBI Publishing |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-7603-0761-8}}</ref> Together with industrial designer [[Brooks Stevens]], they decided to also "plush up" the interior, add custom paint treatment and hood with Jeffords's name in badge form, as well as a modified suspension as part of their plan to offer an optional Ramble seat for 500 production cars.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Let's Hear It For Javelin! American Motors tries to become king of the hill |magazine=Car & Driver |year=1968 |volume=14 |number=3 |page=104}}</ref> The prototype was prepared by Dave Puhl's House of Kustoms in Palatine, Illinois.<ref name=amx-r/> However, numerous problems prevented serial production, including safety and [[product liability]] concerns, AMC's refusal to sell him the cars to modify, as well as the adverse reaction from [[Ralph Nader]] to the exposed exterior seating idea.<ref name=amx-r/> The AMX-R's special blacked-out hood treatment would later be offered as a "shadow mask" option on 1970 AMX models.