History has been unkind to the AMC Gremlin, but the truth is that the strange-looking subcompact was a great little car for its time. It’s a terrible car that wasn’t actually terrible.

Beginning in 1973, AMC offered a 304 cubic inch (5.0 liter) V8 in the Gremlin, which was powerful enough to get the nearly 3,000-pound car from 0-60 mph in 8.1 seconds.

AMC Gremlin 1970-1978. ... It was an awkward upside-down fishbowl with a passenger door 4-inches longer that the driver door and an engine compartment designed for a Wankel engine.

This 1974 AMC Gremlin got a V8 engine swap to ape the special-edition Randall-built XRs of the day. The Takeaway I haven’t driven a lot of cars from the Malaise Era, and never really wanted to.

1973 AMC Gremlin. Current Value for a #2 Condition Example: $20,400. X package, 258 I-6. ... As far as collectibility, the two-door and four-door sedans are at the bottom of the barrel.

The AMC Gremlin is possibly the most oddball car of the late 20th century. To some, it has a face only a mother could love, and, to others, it is endlessly endearing.

The AMC Gremlin remains one of the most intriguing production cars to come out of North America in recent decades, thanks primarily to its odd two-door shape. Between 1970 and 1978, AMC built a ...

2-door, 2-4 passenger, front-engine, RWD sedan. L x W x H: 161.3 x 70.6 x 51. ... AMC fitted the Gremlin with four-wheel drum brakes and a three-speed transmission that lacked a synchronizer for ...