Manny Athans , a retired peace officer living in North Las Vegas, Nev., on his 1973 AMC Gremlin X Levi’s edition, as told to A.J. I would go to car shows and see these kinds of cars everywhere. One day, I decided that I wanted to gravitate toward the unusual. I wanted to stand out. Having grown up a teenager in the 1970s, I remembered the Gremlin.

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