Print Page | Close Window

Gucci Sportabout

Printed From: TheAMCForum.com
Category: American Motors Corp., its history and more.
Forum Name: The Member Companies and Products of AMC
Forum Description: What AMC produced, when, production numbers, companies owned, bought, sold.....
URL: https://theamcforum.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=100659
Printed Date: Apr/23/2024 at 3:48pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.03 - http://www.webwizforums.com


Topic: Gucci Sportabout
Posted By: V8Mart
Subject: Gucci Sportabout
Date Posted: Jun/22/2019 at 12:55am
I have a 73 V8 powered Gucci Sportabout in E6 fawn beige. It appears to have a mix of option packages, D/L wood side trim , full tinted windows, sporty steering wheel, heavy sway bar and marks on the rear quarter that suggests it may have had "X" emblems placed after the sportabout emblems. Is there a way of finding out how many were produced/sold like this?



Replies:
Posted By: 73Gremlin401
Date Posted: Jun/22/2019 at 1:53pm
Originally posted by V8Mart V8Mart wrote:

I have a 73 V8 powered Gucci Sportabout in E6 fawn beige. It appears to have a mix of option packages, D/L wood side trim , full tinted windows, sporty steering wheel, heavy sway bar and marks on the rear quarter that suggests it may have had "X" emblems placed after the sportabout emblems. Is there a way of finding out how many were produced/sold like this?


One of the better sources for production numbers is the 'Standard Catalog of American Motors' - which is reasonably accurate.  The problem in the AMC hobby is always trying to figure out specific combination of options or equipment production numbers, and AMC was notoriously poor at either keeping this kind of information, or if they were keeping it, really poor at letting outside sources have it.

According to the book, there were a total of 44,719 Sportabout wagons built - in any engine/transmission or trim combo. There is no breakout (at least in this book) of V8, or specific trim orders.  Others here on the forum may have additional information.  The Gucci option was listed in this book as retailing for a mere $142 in 1973.


-------------
73 Gremlin 401/5-spd.
77 Matador Wagon 360/727.
81 Jeep J10 LWB 360/4-spd
83 Concord DL 4-dr 258/auto



Posted By: V8Mart
Date Posted: Jun/23/2019 at 2:14am
For a while, my research lead me to believe my fawn beige was a special order as it was not one of the 4 listed gucci colours but recently I discovered that in 73 the yuca tan was dropped and silver and fawn beige were added to the line up. I know that the V8 option only made up for around 12% of the gucci production, total gucci production  was around 5,300 over the 2 years, but after that Ive reached a dead end. It would be good to know how many survive




Print Page | Close Window

Forum Software by Web Wiz Forums® version 12.03 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Copyright ©2001-2019 Web Wiz Ltd. - https://www.webwiz.net