#1 is stored at the Gilmore-CCCA Museum in Hickory Corners MI and
would require more of a "reconstruction" than just full restoration.
Significant errors in dimensional design drawing caused by faulty English/
Metric conversions meant that it never was driveable and though correct in
appearance and equipment, it has always functioned only as a prototype
showcar; in effect, a fully-outfitted steel-bodied pushmobile.  #1 appears
in the first of Rosa's "The four above shots could be..." photos on p. 5
It carried a different transmission (by the German firm ZF) than those
sourced for intended first-year production of 24 cars.  While plans for
5,000 unit production quickly vanished, as late as mid-1970 the AMC board
was agreeable to building two dozen image-boosting AMX/3 sportscars, so at
least 34 transaxles were custom-built to AMC specs.  At one point in the
early '80s Dick Teague owned 30 of them when, after his dire need to find
a unit (one car he bought from AMC lacked -any- tranny, its casing having
been whacked during a drive on public streets not far from AMC's Detroit
styling studio) led then-AMC CEO Gerald Meyers to locate and sell Teague
the entire Genoan cache of 28 for payment of AMC's accrued years of storage
costs.  Not a bad deal to get 28 specialized trannys for ~$4k!  Teague may
have used two, sold one, and donated a fourth to Gilmore for car #1, but
disposition of the remaining 24 is yet unknown (at least to me ).

Given sufficient funds, a firm like RM could probably succeed in rebuilding
car #1 (they did so not long ago with an incinerated Packard aero coupe that
had languished as "hopeless" for nearly 50 years...), and folks like Joe
Bortz have orchestrated similar miracles for several "lost cause" one-offs
showcars maybe more basket-case than the Gilmore AMX/3.  Whether that car
could then do anything more than straight-line self-propel from trailer to
show berth is debatable (and Teague believed it might not be massaged even
to do that much), but at least it ought to be able to turn over, roll, and
-look- as good as it did at the European press unveiling (3/23/70 in Rome),
to US media eyes (at the Waldorf on 4/3/70), and to the motoring public on
Petersen Publishing's "Wonderful World..." stand at the NY Auto show which
opened the following day.

The #1 car...

Came from Italy stripped.  As in, no motor, transaxle, brake system, 
wheels, and some other miscellaneaus interior stuff (gauges..hint hint).

Car was an ugly pee soup green.  When my Dad got it back in the early 70's
(I don't know exact dates, but my dad might....maybe) he painted it yellow as
it still is.  My Dad got a blueprinted 1970 390/315hp from AMC engine
buildup.  The motor was originally built for some exec, who had a car with
the 390 and a  history of grenading motors(my dad knows who the guy is).
The project was promptly halted as their was no transaxle, and none to be
found.

So it sat, and then in 1981 when my family moved to Alaska from Lansing, Mi
my Dad made arrangements with Gilmores car museum to store the car. And 
they had permission to restore it cosmetically so they could display it.  This
never happened, so the car sat for another 18 or so years in the bottom of a
barn.  This christmas break while I was out of college.  My Dad and I went 
to Kalamazoo, Mi with the 85 Eagle and flatbed trailer and hauled the car back.

While the car was at Gilmores we heard rumors that Dick Teague(good friend
of my dad) had donated a transaxle and bellhousing.  We had called the 
museum in previous years and they denied receiving any pieces.  Well when we
went to pick the car up we where informed that the museum had a transaxle and
bellhousing that they weren't going to use. (gee, how nice..can we have
them?)

Best part of this deal is that the bellhousing that was included was one that 
my Dad had broken in previous years on another '3 of Teagues and it had
been professionaly welded. Kind of neat that Teague had such a sense of
humor.

Well when we got the car back the motor was missing the oilpan and 3
pushrods.  All of which misterously disappeared( and they took 2 Machine
wheels holding the back of the car up also....those silly AMC fans will go
to all means for parts I guess).  The motor has never been run, and now 
after all of those years never will.  Since the oilpan was missing I was able 
to see the wonderful IronOxide that has formed on the cylinder walls.  But 
everything else looks good (including the white camlube goop).

The underbody of the car has surface rust.  And it is in dire need of a
respray.  But this car is going to get the red carpet treatment (don't expect
to see it in any show for many years. As this is going to be another father
son project.  Have I told you how long the other ones took?).

The main problem that we are going to run into on the restoration is the
braking system as that is completely not there.  And the people who made 
it disapear didn't leave part #'s or descriptions.  That and the fact that it
was a custom system built be ATE, who then became Teves, who is now 
a part of Continental.  The problem is going to be in the record keeping, 
if there is any from back in the day of this project.