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1970 AMC Javelin

SST Mark Donohue
$183.6M for Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale
Saturday, 21 January - Sunday, 29 January
$77,000
Sale Price
No
Reserve
26 January 2023
Sold Date
680
Lot Number
#2-
Recent restoration
Barrett-Jackson
Auction House
Chassis no. A0C797X220412. Blue and white over blue cloth. 390/325hp, automatic, side exhaust, added air conditioning, pushbutton radio.

Evaluation: Restoration finished by an AMC specialist in 2021. The paint looks older than that, though, and all the window frames plus the exhaust surrounds are scratched up. The interior and engine look mostly restored. Mark Donohue Javelins numbered 2500 units fitted with a rear ducktail spoiler to homologate it for racing.

Bottom Line: Freshly pulled out of 30 years of storage in 2019, this Javelin sold as a barn find at RM’s Auburn auction for $3575. It’s not clear what the total bills were for the restoration, but this is still as good of a return as the seller could have hoped for. Even high-spec AMCs are typically cheaper than household name muscle cars, but this was well past our expectations. The last Mark Donohue Javelin to sell close to this was a $66k car sold out of a major AMC collection at Mecum Indy last spring.

by Andrew Newton
16 February 2023

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