Pick the Winner of the 2018 Muscle Car Match-Ups (1968 Edition)

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They are not who we thought they were.

This is not the championship match-up we expected to see in the finals of the 2018 Muscle Car Match-Ups (1968 Edition). And we love you for that.

Surprise!? It’s the AMC vs. the Plymouth.

Awesome!

It’s time to crown this year’s winner. (See how the voting is done and learn why we chose 1968 vehicles here.)

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1968 AMC AMX Go Package 390 vs. 1968 Plymouth GTX 426 Hemi

AMX vs. GTX

(Image/OnAllCylinders – Deana Johnston)

And we’re down to two.

Raise your hand if you thought the AMC AMX Go Package 390 was going to mow through, in order:

  • Chevy Chevelle L78SS 396
  • Pontiac GTO Ram Air 400
  • Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds W-45 455

(We’re not raising our hands.)

What a run, AMC. Just one more to go. Too bad it’s not going to be easy.

On the other side of the bracket, sits the gorgeous and mighty Plymouth GTX 426 Hemi.

It’s victim list in this tournament is no less impressive than its AMC opponent.

To reach the championship round, the GTX dispatched the:

  • Chevy Camaro Z/28 302
  • Chevy Corvette 427 L88
  • Dodge Charger R/T 426 Hemi

There’s no pre-defined criteria on which you should be measuring these vehicles. It’s not about which would win a drag race, a road race, or a show-car competition.

It’s about which one you like the most, and you’re allowed to use any reasons you want to do that.

And it all comes down to this.

The AMC vs. the Plymouth. Just one champion.

It’s time to crown one.

MCMU 2018 bracket - championship round

(Image/OnAllCylinders – Deana Johnston)

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  3. Mike Moneypenny
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    In 1975 I owned a beautiful, stock 1969 Hemi Dodge Super Bee hardtop. I also had a 69 AMX 390. I kept the Hemi for 6 months, I’ve owned the AMX for over 48 years, I’ve gotta go with the AMX.

  24. Dean Walker
    Reply

    AMX ! I was a teenager when these cars were new. I was around them all. I was most impressed with the AMXs then and that’s what I own now.

    • Joe Long
      Reply

      AMX lives! My 71 was given to me in 1975, my very first car, I have owned it for 43+ years. I have plucked the feathers of many many big boys of the big three for years.

  27. Doug Noland
    Reply

    After reading some of this there is the idea that the AMX was not a muscle car. I bought a new 390 4 speed AMX in 1968 and outran every “muscle car” in Atlanta I could find. I was never outrun in that car. It went low 14s in the quarter and I could drive the snot out of that car. So it wasn’t a muscle car it was a MUSCLE CAR !

  36. Mike Watson
    Reply

    AMX of course. AMC built great cars. My friends derided them as “Ramblers”, until I took them for a ride in my AMX.

  39. Mike Reiminger
    Reply

    390 AMX’s WERE BAD ASS. The 390 ci. was the fastest motor AMC ever built, especially the 1970 model.

  59. James w Ditty
    Reply

    I have had my 1968 AMX for 42 years ,had it in West Germany when stationed there ,Ran it wide open on the Autobahns ,Gota Love it

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