AMC To Resume Production!

Okay, so it’s admittedly kind of weird that the magazine world’s wonky publishing timetable requires that Hot Rod be putting out its April Fool’s issue now—but then, this is one prank I didn’t want to have to wait for. The mag claims that American Motors is refurbishing its old plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and returning as "a full-line, full-service car company to do battle with the domestics and imports in the highly competitive North American marketplace." AMC will be churning out everything from a pillarless luxury sedan (the revamped Ambassador) to fuel-efficient compacts—that’s right, the retrostyled Gremlin and Pacer, below! I don’t care how much everyone claims to hate these cars—if they really did bring these back, they’d sell like crazy.