Saturday, August 3, 2013

Junkyard Find: 1982 AMC Eagle SX/4 Sport

08 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee MartinThe AMC Eagle may have disappeared from public consciousness decades ago outside of Colorado, but Eagles are still all over the place in the Mile High City. I can think of a couple of daily-driven Eagle survivors within several blocks of my house (not to mention several VW Vanagon Syncros, but that's another story), and fallen Eagles show up in Denver-area self-service wrecking yards with great regularity. In this series, we've seen this '79 wagon, this '80 coupe, this '82 hatchback, this '84 wagon, this '84 wagon, and this '85 wagon. As for the very rare AMC Spirit-based Eagle SX/4, we've seen just this Iron Duke-powered '81 prior to today's find.
11 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee MartinA two-door, quasi-sporty car with four-wheel-drive… put out by a company that, by 1982, was obviously doomed. Still, some SX/4s were sold.
02 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee MartinWith the good old bulletproof AMC 258 straight six, this car had all the torque it needed to unstick itself from mud and snow. Fuel economy wasn't so great, but gas prices dropped quickly as the mid-1980s approached.
01 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee MartinChrysler stuck with the AMC six well into our current century, but axed the Eagle just a year after its 1987 takeover of American Motors. Confusingly, Chrysler made the Eagle name into a separate marque.


Did this car really get 32 highway MPG? Maybe at 47 MPH, downhill!

01 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 02 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 03 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 04 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 05 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 06 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 07 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 08 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 09 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 10 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 11 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 12 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 13 - 1982 AMC Eagle SX4 Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com




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