ID Numbers

All 1968-70 AMXs have a 13-character VIN Number plate under the hood on top of the right front wheelhouse panel, and a unit body data plate riveted to the driver's door below the latch mechanism (as did all 1968-75 AMC cars). These two plates indicate the car's original engine, transmission, color, and trim level. The exact meanings of the codes vary from year to year.

VIN and Paint Code decoders:

1968-80 VIN Decoder
1968 and 69 Javelin and AMX Codes: VIN and unit body number plate

1968 AMC Paint Codes
1969 AMC Paint Codes
Paint Codes 1960-70

More decoders and technical information are on the Technical Information page.

Dash Plaques

All 1968-70 AMXs came from the factory with a special dash plaque. The plaque appeared originally on the center dash pad, and on the first 50 or so cars it was engraved only with the letters "AMX". A five digit number was then added, and the plaque moved to the glove box door after a few hundred cars, only to return to the original location after a few hundred more rolled off the line. It remained there through 1969, but for 1970 the dash was redesigned, and the number was redesigned with blue and red trim and moved back to the glovebox.

AMC did not install numbers 00001-00100 on the first 100 cars, reserving them instead for special celebrities like the Green Bay Packer who got number 00003.

The numbered plaque was a good marketing trick (it has been suggested that AMC's ad agency came up with the idea), but because the numbers were not tied to the VIN or to the actual production sequence, it is little more than a fun gimmick. The highest plaque number released was more than 5,000 too high, and many plaques made their way onto assembly line worker's lunch buckets, lockers, etc.

For more details and stories about the AMX plaques, see Tom Benvie's post to the AMC-List.