This third-series AMC V8 engine was available in 304, 360, and 401 cubic-inch sizes. Let's take a closer look at this family of long-lasting and powerful motors. The first AMC vehicles to be ...

AMC also offered a one-year-only Machine Go package for the 1971 Matador, available with the 360 cubic inch V8 or the then-new 401 cubic inch V8. This $373 — around $2,900 in 2024 — package ...

Machine Go buyers with the 360 CI V8 also received dual exhausts and a four-barrel carb. AMC quickly dropped the Machine Go option but kept the 401 until 1974. Police Matadors remained available ...

Another advantage both the 390 and 401 share is a steel crankshaft, compared with the nodular iron crank in the 304 and 360. The '70 tall-deck AMC 390 has a unique piston-and-rod combo that makes ...

When AMC decided to make the 304 V8 available in the Gremlin, Randall decided to take it one step further. Externally, the Gen3 tall-deck 304 had the same dimensions as its 401-ci (6.5-liter ...

Our big plan was to swap in a 390 or 401 for a little street-machine fun ... that too when the Jeep guys divulged the secret of the AMC 360. No, it's not a Mopar engine, it's all American Motors ...

For the SC/360 model that was only available as a two-door sedan, AMC engineers figured that the Gen II tall-deck, 360-ci (5.9-liter) that used to be the standard motor in the 1970 AMX would fit ...

I can’t really talk about this 6.6-liter V8, four-speed tribute 1974 AMC Gremlin 401-XR without talking about the original, and we can’t talk about the original without talking about the basic ...