The 1970 AMC Rebel Machine Made 340 Horsepower and Scared the Big Three — AMC Killed the Name a Year Later Anyway by Jack Harmon AMC’s 1970 Rebel Machine packed 340 horsepower and a patriotic red-white-and-blue paint job into a company nobody expected to beat Detroit’s best. Only 2,326 were built before AMC pulled the plug on the name for good.
