Couldn't be that hard, many people think, to slam an AMX and a Gremlin together to re-create the long-lost 1968 AMX GT concept car, right? Except that nobody has ever whipped up such an automotive portmanteau, given it the requisite red white, and blue paint scheme, and rolled it out to see the light of day-until now.

We first got word of the project through reader Mikel Smithson, who chimed in following our recent rundown of all the cars carrying the name AMX. He spotted it at Bill Borneman's Blast From the Past shop--what has since been passed on to his son Dave and is now known as Borneman's Blast From the Past Restoration and Customs--in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and put us in touch with the Bornemans.

Will this mash-up be an instant classic, or an automotive Frankenstein's monster?