Editing AMC AMX (section)

=== Racing ===
[[File:AMC AMX Adkins burnout before dragrace.jpg|thumb|right|AMX dragracing [[Burnout (vehicle)|burnout]]]]
[[File:Two AMC AMXs dragrace takeoff.jpg|thumb|right|Two AMX [[drag racing|dragster]]s taking off]]

As an American-built two-seater, the AMC AMX was a high-performance car with few equals.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Cars & Parts |title=American Motors AMX |volume=29 |page=30 |publisher=Amos Press |year=1986}}</ref> They were campaigned with factory support and by independents in a variety of road and track racing series as well as being classified as [[grand tourer]]s.<ref>{{cite magazine|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=c1NWAAAAMAAJ&q=The+1970+AMX's+360-cubic-inch+V-8+pushed+it+out+of+Class+B+and+into+direct+competition+with |title=The AMX and the Javelin |magazine=Automobile Quarterly |year=1981 |volume=19 |issue=1 |access-date=9 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JHVaQFDrx_MC&q=AMX+1969+343+B/Production+five+first-place+finishes+closest+competitor+was+a+Corvette&pg=RA1-PT68 |last=Mitchell |first=Larry G. |title=AMC Muscle Cars |publisher=MotorBooks/MBI |year=2000 |pages=55, 124–126 |isbn=978-0-7603-0761-8 |access-date=9 March 2019}}</ref>

The cars were regular performers on [[dragstrip]]s across the United States. Drivers included [[Shirley Shahan]], better known as the "Drag-On Lady", and Lou Downy. [[National Hot Rod Association]] (NHRA) champion Wally Booth raced AMXs in both the Super Stock and the [[Pro Stock]] classes.<ref name="Discovery"/> Herman Lewis, often described "as 'the Godfather of AMC Racing' ... won 200 events in his hellacious red, white, and blue AMX."<ref name="Discovery"/>

The 1968 and 1969 AMXs with AMC's {{convert|390|cuin|L|1|abbr=on}} engines compete in contemporary [[Nostalgia Super Stock]] drag racing.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nssracing.com/rules/nmca-rules/ |title=Nostalgia Super Stock Racing Rules |website=nssracing.com |year=2012 |access-date=7 March 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131103055430/http://www.nssracing.com/rules/nmca-rules/ |archive-date=3 November 2013}}</ref> Owners have also modified AMXs to compete in modern Pro [[Touring car racing]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1080527_1969-amc-amx-defines-what-a-pro-touring-car-should-be-video |title=1969 AMC AMX defines what a pro touring car should be: video |first=Kurt |last=Earnst |publisher=Motor Authority |date=16 November 2012 |access-date=7 March 2013}}</ref>

The [[Sports Car Club of America]] (SCCA) classed the AMX in B Production for amateur competition, the same class as the Shelby GT350. An AMX scored second place in the 1969 SCCA national championship.<ref name="stuffworksAMX"/> Dwight Knupp drove his AMX just 1 minute and 14 seconds behind a Corvette's winning average of {{convert|102.385|mph|km/h|0|abbr=on}} on 30 November 1969, at the [[Daytona International Speedway]] with 16 cars in the B production class, and placed sixth overall out of the total of 28 A and B class cars competing in the race.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.virhistory.com/cars/arrc/1969-res.htm |title=1969 ARRC (Daytona) Complete Results |publisher=VIR History |access-date=7 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/Daytona-1969-11-30b.html |title=American Road Race of Champions – Classes: AP+BP |website=RacingSportsCars.com |access-date=7 March 2013}}</ref> The two-seat AMX was never eligible for SCCA Trans-Am competition.

A 1969 AMX was entered in the 1971 and 1972 [[Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash]], an unofficial automobile race from New York City and Darien, CT, on the US Atlantic (east) coast, to Redondo Beach, a Los Angeles suburb on the Pacific (west) coast. A team of enthusiastic brothers, Tom and Ed Bruerton, finished the 1971 competition in fifth place.<ref>{{cite book| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7SVr1lbOVbYC&pg=PA151 |title=50 Years with Car and Driver|first=Marty|last=Padgett |publisher=Filipacchi Publishing |year=2005 |isbn= 978-1-933231-00-6 |page=51 |access-date=11 January 2012}}</ref> They drove {{convert|2897|mi|km|0}} in 37 hours and 48 minutes at an average of {{convert|77.3|mph|km/h|0|abbr=on}}, with no speeding tickets.<ref>{{cite book |title=Cannonball! World's Greatest Outlaw Road Race |first=Brock|last=Yates |publisher=Motorbooks |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-7603-1633-7 |page=61}}</ref> Their AMX already had {{convert|90000|mi|km|0}} on the [[odometer]] and the brothers had previously taken it on numerous endurance rides, including "a rocky ride the entire length of the [[Baja California Peninsula]]."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bVO1N3N_UWkC&dq=AMX+90,000+miles+on+the+odometer+a+rocky+ride+the+entire+length+of+the+Baja+Peninisula&pg=PA35 Yates, p. 35.]</ref> They again entered "their battlescarred AMX one more time" in the 1972 run.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Irp9fHQKV9YC&dq=Tom+and+Ed,+were+returning+from+their+Sandy,+Utah,+haunts+to+run+their+battlescarred+AMX+one+more+time&pg=PA87 Yates, p. 87.]</ref> The brothers finished in eighth place, making the coast-to-coast outlaw race in 39 hours and 42 minutes at an average of {{convert|72.3|mph|km/h|0|abbr=on}}.<ref>Yates, p. 91.</ref>