AMC AMX/3

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One of the AMX/3 prototypes, this example was used extensively for testing both at BMW and at Monza in 1969. Cooling turned out to be an issue, so additional radiator inlets were added underneath the headlights. During the tests, the car exceeded the 160 mph target top speed. In 1971, the development prototype as well as the Turin show car were sold to Jerry Werden, who was a friend of the then AMC president, Roy Chapin Jr. The test car was sold on to Werden's associate, a Mr deMichieli. He had owned the car for a year, and it subsequently passed through several hands before it was acquired by Walter and Diane Kirtland in 1989. They had the car restored and showed it at the 1990 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, where both Giotto Bizzarrini and Salvatore Diomanti were in attendance. They confirmed that this was the AMX/3 used during the successful Monza tests. After showing the car at a variety of events and a 25-year ownership, the Kirtlands sold the car to a German collector in 2014, who displayed the car at several other concourse shows until it went for auction via Gooding & Co in 2017