We see a lot of AMC Eagles in this series, as well as the occasional Spirit or Encore or even an Oleg Cassini Edition Matador, but today's Junkyard Find is our first-ever AMC Concord. Here's an amazingly brown '81 sedan for some Malaise goodness.
Under the hood, we've got an Iron Duke four-cylinder, which made 86 mighty horsepower. That's just 12 more than the 2015 Mitsubishi Mirage (which weighs 864 pounds less than this Concord), a car much maligned by automotive journalists for its allegedly intolerable slowness. This Concord's poor abused Duke had to drag 32.78 pounds with each of its gasping horsepower, while the new Mirage — which I say isn't bad at all, for the price — has a much sprightlier 27.41 pounds-per-horse ratio. Think about that next time you hear some angry geezer complaining about cars being better in the old days.
This car came with AM and FM on the radio dial, all the better for listening to some of the year's better music on KALX (if you had AM only, you were stuck with far schmaltzier stuff, though you might have lucked out into one of the better 1981 AM hits now and then).
Think about this: the AM/FM radio option in this car was $192 ($556 in 2015 dollars), while opting for the 258-cubic-inch six-cylinder engine was just $136 over the cost of the standard Iron Duke. Priorities!
American cars of this era tended to have headliner-hanging-down issues. I see this staple trick frequently in junkyards.
Luxury.
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