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AMC's Awesome Malaise Compacts
When we told you about the possibility of a new Chevy-branded compact car yesterday, the howls of lamentation quickly followed, as long-repressed memories of awful bowtie-badged compacts bubbled back into consciousness. But if you think those old Chevettes, Toyota-based Novas, and Citations were bad, you're forgetting about the real champion of awesomely awful American hatchbacks: AMC.
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All A Pacer Needs Is a Little Love and a Jeep Engine
So what we have here is an honest-to-God AMC Pacer Family. Dad builds a 10-second Pacer with a Pontiac 455, then buys his daughter her first pager... at age eight (apparently driver's-license regs are more lenient in Louisiana than they are in the rest of the country). Now she's driving a purple '76 Pacer X with a 4.5 Jeep 6-banger (made by putting the crank and rods out of an '85 Jeep 258 into a '95 Jeep 4.0 engine), some subwoofers, and so on. See, the Pacer is no laughing matter! [Mopacer.com] -
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1976 AMC Pacer X
I'd been keeping my eyes open for one of these on the street in Alameda for quite a while (we see one in a driveway behind the '50 Pontiac Chieftan, but driveway cars aren't, like, on the street), so I had the camera out and shooting before you could say "defunct automobile manufacturer" when I saw this '76 on Alameda's main drag. Not only is it a Pacer, it's the coveted X model! And in great condition to boot.
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The '78 Pacer Wagon Makes You Smart!
It's too bad The General never was able to supply AMC with those rotary engines they promised they'd make, because the goofy styling of the Pacer would have made sense with a Wankel under the hood. In any case, AMC made the best of it, claiming that the Pacer was a small car with huge hauling capacity. -
novelties
Shitfaced, Johnny! Bad Student Car Ad Thing
While on the prowl for more vintage AMC goodness, we ran across this student project for Mr. Frisbee's Video Editing Basics class at the Art Institute of Dallas. We'll let the auteur — one "Noodlez" — explain his work here:"This is a funny car commercial I did in Video Editing Basics. The car I think is a 1977 AMC Pacer, and it's just a commercial about selling a car and what the car is about. I used a beat by Young Dai and it's a commercial with a beat, haha, enjoy....."
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SquadPacer!
Wow. We have no information on this car. We're not sure where Freetown is, but we have a feeling it must be something like Free Country, USA. But Freetown apparently decided to one-up Free Country's Gremlin and styled up a police-package Pacer. We're going to find this place and get arrested there, just so we can ride in it. More » -
retro
Why You Belfasties Gotta Poke Fun? The Telly on the Pacer
Last week we posted on a bit the Belfast Telegraph did on the history of the Proud Ship Studebaker. This time, they're taking on the Pacer, and their invective gats are loaded with hollow points: "The AMC Pacer is really America's Austin Allegro, a Seventies car that was so uniformly inept in almost all respects that it has passed into folklore and become perversely 'cool'." Dear Telegraph, the Austin Allegro will never be as cool as the Pacer. Is this series some kind of revenge tactic for James Cameron's Titanic? More » -
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But Does it Come With a Licorice Dispenser? Cad 472-Powered Pacer on eBay
Ah, only in San Berdoo. This 1976 Pacer features a stonking Cadillac 472ci mill, but it needs a bit of work, especially requiring "exuast from the Exause manafolds back," which would include cats and um, and an AMC motor, because despite what the seller thinks, 1976 cars are required to pass smog in California. Oh, if only we still lived in Texas. More »
