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The Gremlin Modified Stocker model kit is set to be released by Round 2 for the first time. Last available in 2008, this Gremlin is a great project for any experienced modeler. Add it to your collection today! This kit has many of the same great features that you’d see on the weekend racetrack. Features such as a Tobias tubular chassis incorporating a full roll cage, a Frankland quick-change rear end, ATL fuel cell, and a two-point link suspension with Koni coil over shocks. The engine is a 427 big block Chevy V8 4-speed trans modified Hurst shifter, with an Edelbrock “tarantula” high-rise manifold, Holley four-barrel carb, Vertex magneto, Stahl headers, and a full-flow radiator. Also, the kit includes pad-printed racing tires with Halibrand wheels. With a set of ALL NEW water slide decals that are loaded with options and enclosed in AMT’s vintage packaging.

Features
1:25 scale, skill level 2, paint & glue required
113 parts
Molded in white and some chrome-plated parts
Black vinyl tires
Built size: 6.75 inches long

The AMC Gremlin (also American Motors Gremlin)[1] is a subcompact automobile introduced in 1970, manufactured and marketed in a single, two-door body style (1970–1978) by American Motors Corporation (AMC), as well as in Mexico (1974–1983) by AMC's Vehículos Automotores Mexicanos (VAM) subsidiary.

Using a shortened Hornet platform and bodywork with a pronounced kammback tail, the Gremlin was classified as an economy car and competed with the Chevrolet Vega and Ford Pinto, as well as imported cars including the Volkswagen Beetle and Toyota Corolla.[5][6] The small domestic automaker marketed the Gremlin as "the first American-built import."[7]

The Gremlin reached a total production of 671,475 over a single generation. It was superseded by a restyled and revised variant, the AMC Spirit produced from 1979 through 1983. This was long after the retirement of the Ford Pinto that suffered from stories about exploding gas tanks, as well as the Chevrolet Vega with its rusting bodies and durability problems with its aluminum engine.

The idea for the Gremlin began in 1966 when design chief at American Motors, Dick Teague, and stylist Bob Nixon discussed the possibility of a shortened version of AMC's compact car.[10] On an airline flight, Teague's solution, which he said he sketched on an air sickness bag,[11] was to truncate the tail of a Javelin. Bob Nixon joined AMC as a 23-year-old and did the first formal design sketches in 1967 for the car that was to be the Gremlin.[12]

Ford and General Motors were to launch new subcompact cars for 1971, but AMC did not have the financial resources to compete with an entirely new design.[13][14] Teague's idea of using the pony car Javelin resulted in the AMX-GT concept, first shown at the New York International Auto Show in April 1968.[15] This version did not go into production, but the AMX name was used from 1968 through 1970 on a shortened, two-seat sports car built from the Javelin.


1971 AMC Gremlin X, 1972 Ford Pinto Runabout, and 1973 Chevrolet Vega GT

1978 Gremlin X
Instead, Bob Nixon, AMC's future Chief of Design, designed the new subcompact based on the automaker's Hornet model, a compact car. The design reduced the wheelbase from 108 to 96 inches (2,743 to 2,438 mm) and the overall length from 179 to 161 in (4,547 to 4,089 mm), making the Gremlin two inches (50 mm) longer than the Volkswagen Beetle and shorter than the Ford Pinto and Chevrolet Vega.