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#2 2009-07-02 8:00 am
- Daddyo
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Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
Thank God.
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Stack it!#4 2009-07-02 10:07 am
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Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
Ah, the AMC Pacer, one of the ugliest cars ever to drive American roads.
I always wanted to seal one shut, fill it with water and fish and drive around in a scuba suit.
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#6 2009-07-02 3:50 pm
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Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
Pithecanthropus wrote:
Ah, the AMC Pacer, one of the ugliest cars ever to drive American roads.
I always wanted to seal one shut, fill it with water and fish and drive around in a scuba suit.
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around the 5:30 minute mark
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#7 2009-07-02 4:40 pm
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Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
Like I mentioned other thread, try dropping a Boss 429 in one, or maybe a 426 Hemi. More Pacers left than Hornet AMXs.
All that glass makes it easy to see what you're crashing into. "Who was that blue hair in the fishbowl?"
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#8 2009-07-02 7:41 pm
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Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
Weren't those available with an optional 409ci V8?
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#9 2009-07-02 8:06 pm
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Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
I don't think AMC made a 409.
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#10 2009-07-02 8:21 pm
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Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
Ah, yeah. Should have said 401 and no, the pacer was not offered with that.
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#11 2009-07-02 9:13 pm
Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
A Gremlin X, however, could have been ordered with a 304 V8.
As for the Pacer's styling, I feel that was the least of the car's troubles. In fact, I think it's kind of neat looking, in a retro-future way. I recall one magazine cover (Car & Driver, I think) celebrating the Pacer's introduction with a full-on view of the car's schnoz and a headline reading, "Suddenly it's 1980!"
Just think of the Pacer as an extremely tall, slow Porsche 928.
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#12 2009-07-03 12:19 am
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Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
Pariah wrote:
Weren't those available with an optional 409ci V8?
Way before its time even if AMC- for some reason Bren wants a '77 or later Hornet-based AMX, not AMC's late-'60s pony/musclecar.
The 348/409 was the first big-block Chevy V8, basically a truck engine, available thru '63. In '64 Chevy engineers reworked the head design and lo, in the second half of the '65 model year was born the 396, followed in '66 by the 427- tho due to GM regs, the limit for mid-size and smaller cars was 400ci, save the Corvette.
Bren wrote:
Just think of the Pacer as an extremely tall, slow Porsche 928.
...without the handling.
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#13 2009-07-03 12:47 am
Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
There's no "or later," 'cause the Hornet AMX existed for just one year. 1978 saw the Hornet restyled and renamed "Concord," which did lead to a Concord AMX, which also lasted for just one model year. 
Then came the Spirit AMX, which was gone by 1981, I think.
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#14 2009-07-03 11:25 am
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Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
I have one of these dying in my back yard
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#15 2009-07-03 11:40 pm
Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
So do the right thing and restore it! If money's a problem, just tell your landlord you're withholding rent because he's got a broken down old station wagon in your yard.
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#16 2009-07-03 11:53 pm
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Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
Beelzebub has a devil in his sack for me.
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#19 2009-07-04 4:34 pm
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Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
Bat wrote:
"Who was that blue hair in the fishbowl?"
Bren.
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#20 2009-07-04 6:47 pm
Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
Heh,
Back when I had blue hair, I was walking down the street one day, wearing my Shrine Borg Coat, and I happened to see an elderly gentleman in a dark trench coat walking towards me. It was like looking in a mirror.
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#22 2009-07-04 11:15 pm
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My daddy had one of them '76 Chevettes with no back seat. It'd originally been used by the USPS to deliver mail. We found a back seat in a junk yard and installed it, along with some very embarrassing wheelcovers, an air dam, and other aerodynamic aids from the JC Whitney catalog.
And blacked out or shaved trim.
And red-on-white RS/SS style hood stripes.
Complete with sheepskin seat-covers and a CB radio, that car was some piece of work.
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#23 2009-07-04 11:31 pm
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Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
The car was some piece of work?
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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#24 2009-07-05 12:08 am
Re: They sure don't make 'em like this anymore.
Hey, I was just a kid at the time. I may have provided the inspiration, but if somebody failed to exercise an adult's good taste and customizing restraint, that's all on my dad's shoulders.
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