Does this turn you on?

[Renew Deal]

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. YES!!!!!!

I love that stuff. I love monster trucks. Give me crunching metal and total destruction, a hot dog, a beer, and just let me watch.

Is that an old Maverick? I had one of those. Great car......

[HopeHoops]

2. Yeah, I loved my Maverick, but that looks more like a Pinto or a Vega.

[Zavulon]

10. That's an AMC car.

The round headlights are a giveaway. It could be a Matador, a Pacer, even a Gremlin.

[Orrex]

11. I say Matador because the low profile of the trunk

Even crunched up like that, the Pacer and Gremlin wouldn't have such a smooth line over the rear wheels.

[Zavulon]

14. That was my first thought as well, but

the Matador was a tank. I mean, that car was HUGE.

I realize we're talking about a monster truck crushing it here, but I'd have expected it to look bigger if it's a Matador.

Did AMC have another sedan of smaller size that I failed to mention?

[Orrex]

16. I only remember the Matador because we had one

Ours was the "Barcelona" version, which meant IIRC that the backseat passenger windows were smaller. If the one in the pic is a Matador, I think it's the other version, judging by the shape of those windows.

You're right, though--the car was like fifteen feet wide.

[Zavulon]

18. Here's a story about big cars.

My father had a 1971 BelAir which was a former Ontario police car; it had a much bigger and hotter engine than the typical 1971. That car was HUGE.

I did my very first driving lessons in a 1959 Buick (it should be pointed out that this is because Dad loves big and old cars; I'm only 45). That car was HUGE.

I took and passed my first stateside road teat in a tank of a car - a 1965 Caddy with a 472 engine. I actually did a really good job with the K-turn and the parallel park. That car was HUGE.

And despite all of that, the first time I ever drove a Matador, I found myself unable to properly park at a mall or at a supermarket. I had to pick the unoccupied areas at the far ends of the lots, and when I got out I discovered that I was hovering over both white lines - EVEN BACK THEN.

The Matador I drove was a monster, which is why I refused to commit to Matador in my guess. However, you and one other person in the thread did so, and you actually owned one, so I defer to your judgment.

Still, the Matador was a tank. A fucking TANK.

[Orrex]

21. Don't count yourself out yet--the 'other person in the thread' might have been me!

Force of habit--I always vote twice because I live in a Red county.

Incidentally, one of my older sisters took her test in our 1971 Pontiac Grand Safari, which I believe is the size of a diesel locomotive and got about 8 miles per gallon. She lovingly referred to it as "the sleek speed machine."

[Zavulon]

22. Oh, right, it was you.

Still, you owned one. I therefore trust your judgment over my own in this matter.

Do you remember if AMC had any other widely-sold cars besides the Matador, Pacer and Gremlin? Whether you're right or not, I think we can both agree the car in the picture is an AMC product.

[Monk06]

25. 1974 Matador looks like ........

[Wapsie B]

3. Getting a little moist here.

[Dramarama]

8. Yeah,*pulls out tissue*

[applegrove]

4. That is just hillarious.

[foxfeet]

5. I dunno. Is it circumcised?

[NightWatcher]

6. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. Tickets cost 12 dollars per seat BUT YOU"LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE

um, no

[Deja Q]

7. Ford Pintos were great at lighting ciggies for oversized metal robot godzillas

[Orrex]

9. What's Tranzilla doing to that poor Matador?!?!?

Or is that Truckasaurus? I can never tell!

[elshiva]

12. YES! YES! YES OH!

OH! OH MY GOOOOD! OOOO uuuuuuum oOOOO!
:smoke:

[BarenakedLady]

13. Not at all

[SPKrazy]

15. uhm no

why would it?

[Drunken Irishman]

17. I just jerked off to that photo.

[Orrex]

20. That's definitely TIM

[Drunken Irishman]

23. No, my name isn't Tim...

[bluedigger]

19. I need a tissue.

[MilesColtrane]

24. Meh

Now if it was a giant, mechanical narwhal crushing a car, I would have finished before I started.

[kentauros]

26. I'd say they're trying to immitate SRL

(Survival Research Laboratories) without any of the artistic merit or context.

;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5JhQCJBYdQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2fVjBd0xo4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f59s0x0UmQw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTsQxwWcqJI&feature=related