While never managing to quite muscle itself into the conversation of joining the big three American car manufacturers, namely Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler, at the top of the tree ...

Capable of running the quarter-mile in 14.3 seconds right off the showroom floor, it was quicker than most established muscle cars of the era. AMC produced 1,512 units in two paint schemes.

We're watching as a 1968 Pontiac Firebird RAM AIR II and 1970 AMC AMX go head-to-head in three rounds of drag racing action thanks to the following video.

At the same time, muscle cars were built as drag cars ... and other authoritative sources, including AMC, Chrysler, and Ford. Drag cars are in chronological order.

The best things often come in small packages, and apparently, so do huge V8s with bucket loads of torque, as this '60s AMC is eager to prove.