# Am i crazy? i'm thinking of buying a '78 AMC concord

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**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [November 11, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/am-i-crazy-im-thinking-of-buying-a-78-amc-concord/21941 "2008-11-11T02:09:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/am-i-crazy-im-thinking-of-buying-a-78-amc-concord/21941/21 "2008-11-11T20:39:11Z")

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I owned 3 American Motors cars in this time period: 1) 1965 Rambler Classic 550 with the 199 cubic inch engine; 2) 1968 Javelin with the 232 cubic inch engine; and 3) 1975 Pacer with the 258 cubic inch engine.

All three engines were derivatives from he same basic block and all of them ran well. As I remember, the Concord was a rebadged Hornet. IMHO, the AMC 6 cylinder engine was as good as the Chrysler slant 6 and possibly better. These engines had 7 main bearings. Nash, which merged with Hudson, had produced a seven bearing 6 cylinder overhead valve engine even before WW II for its Ambassador models. I would bet that some of this design carried over to the later 6 cylinder engines from American Motors.

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**Author:** ![mrs.jones](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mrs.jones/32/1036_2.png) [@mrs.jones](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mrs.jones)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/am-i-crazy-im-thinking-of-buying-a-78-amc-concord/21941/22 "2008-11-12T01:02:27Z")

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less than $2,000.

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**Author:** ![mrs.jones](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mrs.jones/32/1036_2.png) [@mrs.jones](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mrs.jones)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/am-i-crazy-im-thinking-of-buying-a-78-amc-concord/21941/23 "2008-11-12T01:04:51Z")

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i am told by the seller that the milage on the title is 27K.

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**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/am-i-crazy-im-thinking-of-buying-a-78-amc-concord/21941/24 "2008-11-12T02:41:43Z")

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Well, hard to go wrong for $2000. This car sounds amazingly like a 78 Concord that recently sold on Ebay for about the same price, same miles. Interesting…

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