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    1970 AMC AMX

    Jul 27, 2022 6 minutes
    WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEFF KOCH
    RESTORATION PHOTOGRAPHY BY JIM FELTON

    “AT FIRST I JUST WANTEDto get it together, get it running, and have fun. It wasn’t going to be anything to bring to a car show. But the more we worked on it, the better it got — it was turning out a lot nicer than I thought it would.” — Jim Felton

    Despite what you may see on any number of hokey made-for-cable car-resto TV programs, restoring a car properly is a time-consuming endeavor. Nothing happens overnight. You need time. You need cash. You need talent.

    You need a plan. And though it was too early for him to be swayed by such programming, Jim Felton, now retired and living in Phoenix, Arizona, fell short on all of these. This explains why this Big Bad Green ’70 AMC AMX took more than two decades to get into the shape you see here.

    An AMX might seem an odd choice for

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