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===Breedlove AMX=== According to several sources, "Breedlove Replica" cars to commemorate the speed and endurance records were offered by AMC.<ref>{{cite book|last=Nicholls |first=Richard |title=Supercars |year=2002 |publisher=Tangerine Press |isbn=978-0-439-42465-3 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=RTy6wRNb1ZAC&q=AMC+even+made+50+Breedlove+specials+with+red,+white+and+blue+paint+jobs+to+celebrate |page=25 |access-date=16 November 2012}}</ref> The ''Standard Catalog of American Muscle Cars 1960β1972'' describes an estimated 50 "Breedlove" AMXs were sold featuring the red, white, and blue paint scheme along with the standard 4-barrel {{convert|290|CID|L|1|abbr=on}} V8 with four-speed manual transmission.<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=TwcOO2OxujYC&pg=PA15 |last=Gunnell |first=John |title=Standard Catalog of American Muscle Cars 1960β1972 |page=15 |year=2006 |publisher=Krause Publications |isbn=978-0-89689-433-4 |access-date=16 November 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> However, AMC historians argue there was no "factory literature, order sheets, advertising, photographs, or anything else to properly document any factory 1968 or 1969 'Breedlove Replica' AMXs."<ref name="mitchellreplica">{{cite book|last=Mitchell |first=Larry G. |title=AMC Muscle Cars |year=2000 |publisher=MBI Publishing |isbn=0-7603-0761-X |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JHVaQFDrx_MC&q=Breedlove+AMX+replicas&pg=RA1-PT23 |page=79 |access-date=16 November 2012}}</ref> According to historians a new car that a dealer in Canada ordered could not have been painted at the factory, but rather outsourced to local Kenosha [[Automobile repair shop|body shops]] to perform the final painting.<ref name="mitchellreplica"/>
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