matador x coupe

Ok, The reason I asked is, I happened to watch a TV show where they were getting a late mode (73/74)l "E" body Mopar Cuda / Challenger back up and running for a couple . It was small block (340/360) with console floor shift. The mopar shifter looked identical to the AMC Matador coupe one. It would take some like Ross to know the difference. Caveat in the TV show you only see the top part of the shifter, so no idea if the bottom part is the same or even close. But I'm betting that is it close if not the same. Most of this stuff , specifically low volume stuff is done by an out side supplier / contractor. Lot of stuff AMC used was used on other cars of the period or very close too it. Probably made by the same out side company just AMC version or Mopar version. The reason I state this is while the AMC version is unobtainable the Mopar version is available. I was hoping to get a look at the Mopar one but all the car shows so far this year have been cancelled. LRDaum

The Matador coupe was compared to the Jensen Interceptor , that probably the English car your thinking of. It's too bad AMC gave up on big cars due to the Arab oil embargo. I think a four door and a station wagon with the coupe styling would greatly improved sales for at least a couple year s. Then just when AMC drops all the big cars in 1978 , then the big cars start selling again! Bad timing unfortunately. The styling is love it , or hate it. But based on what other intermediate cars that were out there at the time , well the Chevy Laguna does have much of a following either ! As do most of the mid 1970 intermediates.  I like the Matador Coupe styling myself, enough I bought one also two years ago. LRDaum

Awsome,  Marador cupe is on my wish list

Were the bumpers painted like that new?

CamJam wrote: What a great project-- if you can get all those hard-to-find Matty coupe parts that is, lol.   BTW, I'm from NZ originally, My dad was from Otane, my mother from Napier and they lived in Hastings when they were first married.  Later they moved up north to Warkworth, where I was born.