This is the rare AMC Hornet wagon with a dash of Italian high-fashion glam.

1973 AMC Hornet X Gucci Sportabout Is Today's Find on Bring a Trailer This is the rare AMC Hornet wagon with a dash of Italian high-fashion glam. By Brendan McAleer Published: Jan 14, 2024 Save ...

This AMC Hornet Sportabout has been fitted with a larger 5.9-liter V8 featuring a four-barrel carburetor, chrome valve covers, and a three-speed automatic transmission driving the rear wheels.

Pierre Cardin was a visionary fashion designer who saw the potential in partnerships and licensing—witness the 1972–1973 AMC Javelin, a funky-cool trendsetter.

The AMC Hornet was, in most cases, a sensible and fairly uninteresting American compact car of the 1970s… but in 1972, AMC hired Gucci to add some style to the Hornet Sportabout hatchback, and ...

By 1978, AMC was on the rocks. As recently as 1974 they’d been going gangbusters, with production of 509,496 cars—an all-time high. Though the model year was extended until November of ’74 ...

America’s twin obsessions—being yourself and driving yourself—have given us the Hummer and the Prius, generational tides of nodding dogs and fuzzy dice, the Gucci edition of the AMC Hornet ...

One trick that AMC utilized was linking a famous designer to a car, starting with the Hornet X Gucci Sportabout. And, at the height of the 1970s personal luxury coupe mania, it slapped Oleg ...

The AMC Hornet supplanted the long-serving Rambler at the start of the 1970s. The Sportabout was the wagon version, which offered a dose of extra practicality. This example, however, also adds a ...