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1976 Matador.... front seats folded down to make a full bed.. I slept better in that car than my own bed. Don't get me started on date nights...My car had a modified bench seat because it was an column automatic. I loved this car.

[PLMerite]

I swear I don’t know who they had designing AMC cars but they needed to give them better drugs. Aside from the Gremlin and the AMX/Javelin they were some really odd-looking cars.

[Brother Cracker]

Hornet Hatchback

Sleeping in your car isn’t anything new, but it was AMC’s predecessor, Nash, that capitalized on the practice by offering seats that folded down into a bed as early as the late 1940s. At the same time, Nash also made window screens available that would in effect turn cars into mobile tents, but the idea of offering an actual tent package seemed not to materialize until sometime after American car manufacturers began to build hatchbacks in the early 1970s, and AMC was right there with the Hornet Hutch Mini-Camper Kit. Available through the Group 15 accessory catalog, the Hornet Hutch (part number 8993019) debuted in 1973 with the Hornet Hatchback. Dealer cost was $61.15, and according to Eddie Stakes, it was available through 1980, about as long as the Hatchback body style lasted in AMC’s lineup, on both the Hornet and its replacement, the Concord (the Spirit, while considered by many a hatchback design, was formally called a Liftback).