If the AMX was the unique and aggressively styled face of American Motors Corporation, the cars upon which the Rebel Machine was based were fairly unremarkable. The intermediate-sized Rebel series of two-door coupes, four-door sedans, and brat-hauling station wagons are largely forgettable, except for the Rebel Machine, a two-door variant with a rakish fastback profile and a tri-colored white paint job accented with red and blue stripes. Which had, by 1970, become a bit of an AMC theme. Most were ordered in more conventional colors, but all were powered by the biggest AMC engine, the 390 ci V8 that made 340 hp, but an impressive 430 lb-ft of torque, grunt more normally associated with a big-block motor, which technically, the 390 was not. With only 2,326 examples produced, these Rebels are worthy outliers in the AMC—and muscle car—pantheon.
From the article by Robert Ross, Bryan Hood, Erik Shilling
