Gremlin XR

Wow....now that is something different!  Very cool indeed and the same goes for the two Javelins parked nearby.

I tried to buy a Gremlin X with a 304 in 1972. I was twenty years old. The salesman wouldn't take me seriously! I had to convince him AMC had made the 304 available. Once he found it to be true, he told me I was "too young" to order a car. I wasn't surprised when AMC had to fold! 

@jkuvakas LOL.....what a salesman!  Maybe he saw an opportunity to direct a young man away from a car that might be just too dangerous???

Lots of folks laughed at the 'lack of rear end' on that car. But the XR with that 401 may give you ONLY the vision of the rear end, as it disappears!

I used to see this Gremlin at car shows alot.  Don't know if it was a Gremlin X, but I thought it was cool.  Also found a picture of a Gremlin X.

Here is some Wikkipedia history about this odd looking little car with the mother of all "C" pillars; which IMHO was much better than its Ford and GM competition.  In my area back in the day, these are the 3 colors most frequently seen on the Gremlin X.  My favorite was the black/gold version.  The "X" version was so much more attractive than the standard Gremlin (pic #1)

The AMC Gremlin (also American Motors Gremlin)^[1] is a subcompact automobile introduced in 1970, manufactured and marketed in a single, two-door body style (1970–1978) by American Motors Corporation (AMC), as well as in Mexico (1974–1983) by AMC's Vehículos Automotores Mexicanos (VAM) subsidiary.

Using a shortened Hornet platform and bodywork with a pronounced kammback tail, the Gremlin was classified as an economy car and competed with the Chevrolet Vega and Ford Pinto, as well as imported cars including the Volkswagen Beetle and Toyota Corolla.^[5][6] The small domestic automaker marketed the Gremlin as "the first American-built import."^[7]

The Gremlin reached a total production of 671,475 over a single generation. It was superseded by a restyled and revised variant, the AMC Spirit produced from 1979 through 1983. This was long after the retirement of the Ford Pinto that suffered from stories about exploding gas tanks, as well as the Chevrolet Vega with its rusting bodies and durability problems with its aluminum engine.^[8][9]