the first event of 1982 was the big bend bash rally in alpine, texas, with gene henderson and jim kloosterman taking production class in their amc eagle sx/4, "but even that car's four-wheel-drive couldn't save it from trouble in the deep water... they got stuck in the middle of a water-filled wash on stage four and had to be pushed and pulled out." the next event, the 100 acre wood rally saw "the production class battle was as exciting as the overall warfare with four production class cars finishing in the top ten, all within a minute and a half, after a full night of rallying." the henderson and kloosterman team placed their sx/4 third in the production class and ninth overall. the amc eagle of henderson and kloosterman "in the lead ... but that didn't last... on stage 10 the car rolled, ending wheels up on the stage" at the olympus rally in tumwater, washington. at the next event, the northern lights rally, the henderson and kloosterman sx/4 ended in sixth place in production and tenth overall. the budweiser forest rally held in circleville, ohio, put the henderson and kloosterman sx/4 in second place for production cars and eighth overall. the centennial rally was held in colorado with of many of the rally's stages at a altitude, but the henderson and kloosterman amc eagle sx/4 was just a minute and a half behind the winner with a turbocharged engine in the production class and placed seventh overall. the next event, the tour de forest rally in washington state saw the sx/4 of henderson and kloosterman finish in fourth place for production and eighth overall. the sx/4 took second place driven by henderson and kloosterman in the 1982 sno*drift production class in michigan. "henderson and his amc eagle used the car's 4wd to good advantage and chipped away at [the] lead[er] after the rains started early sunday morning. the rally ended, however, before henderson could pull it off" just 24 seconds behind first place.