In the late ’60s and into the early 1970s AMC took on Detroit with sedans, wagons, and muscle cars, and the outfit even had an answer for the influx of compact, affordable imports: the Gremlin.

Does the AMC Gremlin really deserve its negative reputation, or perhaps it's being bunched in with competitors of the era like the Vega rust bucket and the Ford Pinto, which was a legitimate crash ...