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1972 AMC Javelin

It was a muscle car, yet not your traditional one. It was an anniversary, but not your everyday one… “For our 90th anniversary, we wanted to do something special. We wanted to build a car. So we approached the two guys that have been defying the norm their whole careers.” That is the basic back story according to Prestone about why they approached custom car builders Jim and Mike Ring of Ringbrothers, based in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

And the Rings had just the car for Prestone: a 1972 AMC Javelin AMX. Wait, build a custom Javelin? Exactly: “We always loved the Javelins and we bought a clean car

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