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     | 151. This is Eddie Stakes' famed 1978 Pacer X Planet Houston AMX swap meet car. As of December 1999, it's for sale for $750. "[It] was used in a national commercial for a electronic tax return company, real funny commercial; it aired in the midwest and towards the Pacific. I have a tape with the whole finished commercial in English and Spanish; which was used for Spanish tellys like Telemundo." -Eddie Stakes |
 | 152. "Noted customizer Darryl Starbird's last creation with a bubble top. He is notorious for customizing cars with bubbletops. His museum is located in Oklahoma, and this Pacer can be viewed there!" -Eddie Stakes |
  | 153. From the September 1998 issue of Car Craft magazine, is the "AMC Pacer: Center of the Known Automotive Universe". Sure, it took Car Craft two decades to figure this out, but we Pacer people knew it all along... |
 | 154. A late model year white sedan that visited the AMC Southwest Regionals '99. If you are the owner of this car, please 'fess up! (Photo: Eddie Stakes) |
 | 155. An early model year baby blue sedan at the AMC Southwest Regionals '99. If you are the owner, please let me know, so I can give credit where credit is due. (Photo: Eddie Stakes) |
    | 156. Dateline June 1999: "'Homer' needs a new lover! I'm headed back to school full time and can't take him along. He has 39,000 original miles with 258-SIX, Auto, AC, Pwr Str, New Brakes & Tires, Battery, SMOG Pump, EGR Valve, Radiator and Heater Cores Rodded & cleaned. The vehicle is in original condition, interior as well as exterior. Some minor rust at the rear wheels and a few small body dents." -Richard Crawford Editor's Note: This same car is featured earlier in the archives in photos taken during the time that it was owned by Woody Gray, from whom Richard Crawford purchased this car. Unfortunately, the car was not in the described pristine condition, but Richard invested a great deal in the car after the purchase. (From Richard Crawford, through Tim Hansen) |
     | 157. "Original owner Texas titled 1978 Pacer, 304V8, AT/floor, AC, PS, PDB, tint, Khaki exterior, white interior. 100K miles. Currently being customized. Will be dropped, limoed, shaved, Canary Yellow next time you see it..." -Eddie Stakes |
 | 158. "Tim Theodos' rendition of [my] Pacer in action (1988)." -Harrel Lamkin |
 | 159. "Wastin' rubber & lovin' it! Cajun Nats Bracket finals, 1990." -Harrel Lamkin |
 | 160. "Anna Beth with Dad's race car, 1995. Best ET-10.85 @ 123 with 1.44 60 ft. at 2900 lbs. Sold car to Larry and Barbara Ann Schmidt from Kenosha, Wisconsin." -Harrel Lamkin |
 | 161. "Gettin' air at Cajun Nats Bracket finals, 1990." -Harrel Lamkin |
 | 162. "From Goodyear Motorsports Club magazine Challenge, 1977." -Harrel Lamkin The caption reads: "Take, for example, the new AMC Pacer. A great new outlook. Style with a new flare. A car built for four foot tall Martians, grown taller to accomodate mere mortals! A little slow, a little overweight perhaps, but a definite step in the right direction. A great small car; rack & pinion steering, smart interiors, overdrive, plenty of visibility, actually fun to drive! Buy it! Show American Motors they're right! When yours is worn out, there'll be something even better!" Editor's Note: How we Pacer lovers wish this were so... |
 | 163. "I stumbled on your site a few weeks ago. @Home had it featured that week along with other 'ugly car' sites. You've done a great job. I thought you might like this Pacer Pic. It's from a 1976 Car Craft Magazine and features the Pacer X." -Murray Taylor |
 | 164. A Corgi Pacer toy model in original packaging. Photo borrowed from an eBay auction description. |
 | 165. "Pacer Farm II." Randy Baker rescued several AMCs from the crusher in September 1999, at his Junket Heaven. |
  | 166. An orange 1976 sedan, one of the Pacers rescued by Randy Baker's Junket Heaven. |
  | 167. An aqua 1979 sedan, one of the Pacers rescued by Randy Baker's Junket Heaven. |
  | 168. A maroon 1977 sedan, one of the Pacers rescued by Randy Baker's Junket Heaven. |
   | 169. "I was at my first national meet and saw the pacer you once owned. The car has by all appearances has gone a long way. I do not know if you were there, but I was able to place my car with the rest. I had one of four pacer's in the show. "It was a very enjoyable event, if you haven't been you need to go! The other part of my trip was to learn even at a national event, my car is seen less than most. You see, it is a Pacer D/L Wagon. I thought there would have been more, oh well. "I became the proud owner when my father gave me the car during my last divorce. The car was bought by my Great Aunt from a dealer in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. They kept the car garaged for the fist winter then drove to CA. My father acquired the car from there estate and then gave it to me. "When I got the car I had NO Idea, so many different type of people would comment, good and bad. Not letting that bother me, I to just told myself it is a car it was free, and drove VERY nice. When I got tired of having a rear main bearing leak I decided to repair it and add a chrome valve cover. "One would think that this would be a simple task, HA! I ended up doing a ground up restoration, the only thing I didn't do was re-paint the car! After many dollars I drove the car to St. Louis. What a wonderful trip, I also received a Silver award! That was the first award from the restoration, my then fifth award, I now have six! I love taking this car to shows and display my work! "I don't now if you do any traveling, but there are at times here, in Phoenix AZ 'rust free' Pacers for sale. If you get ready to find Pacer #2 and can deal with the plastic from AZ, you may get a good shell. The next National show this car will be at is gonna be in TX in 2001. Our club is holding a Regional meet 4/01/2000 and we hope to have a good showing. "The first [photo] is when I got the car from my Dad, gave it a wax and received my first trophy. The second is what it looked like prior to restoration, the third is the four of us in MO." -Eric Groskopf, August 1999 |
 | 170. A two-page advertisement for the Pacer, taken from an eBay auction, presumably from 1976. |
 | 171. 1975 Pacer X publicity photograph. Borrowed from Wolfgang Mederle's site. |
 | 172. 1976 Pacer D/L sedan publicity photograph. Borrowed from Wolfgang Mederle's site. |
 | 173. Pacer with basket weave interior publicity photograph. Borrowed from Wolfgang Mederle's site. |
 | 174. Mike Glasgow's Pacer drawings. |
 | 175. Mike Glasgow's photograph of the Wayne's World Mirth Mobile at King's Island in Cincinnati, Ohio. |
 | 176. "76 the both are, equiped with the smaller block (232). Oddly enough they also share a common mileage reading of about 94,000. They have brought me much joy and when my petty standings have broke for way I shall indeed do with them as a force beyond a vidy back had intended." -Rob |
 | 177. Sheldon Rody worked at the AMC Dealership in Ft. Wayne, Indiana from 1975 to 1977. This is a picture he took at the Ft. Wayne Auto Show in 1975, when the Pacer was introduced. |
    | 178. Sheldon Rody's then brand new 1975 Pacer X, when it had only 10 miles on it. |
  | 179. Red and blue Pacer keychains from eBay auctions. |
       | 180. This 1979 Pacer Limited wagon was sold by Paul Jeffreys of Whittier, California to Tom Bork of Richardson, Texas in September 2000. In Paul's words, "He took one look at the car and said, 'What a beauty. I will buy the car.'" Paul was the original owner of this car, and had approximately 50,000 miles on it at the time of sale. Paul originally submitted this picture to the Pacer Page photo archives in December 1999, when he put the car up for sale. |
  | 181. Pat Patterson's first Pacer. |
  | 182. "I was just surfing the net the night before I went back to school, and I decided to look up some stuff on my first car. About one month ago I got a 1979 Pacer as a surprise. But as my parents and my older brother were bringing it home from a town about 150 miles away, it threw a piston arm out of the bottom of the engine :(. Not too big of a shock because it had 154,000 miles on it. Now it is sitting at the repair shop waiting for a new engine. I found one, but I am still waiting for it to put in the car. The paint job is terrible on it, so I am going to repaint it like the Pacer on Wayne's World. "I have already heard the comment 'You actually paid money for that?' [even though I] have never driven it. Look at the pictures and you will see what I mean about the paint." -Jon Rice |
 | 183. "I found your site, and it brought back memories of my parents' '76 Pacer wagon. It handled surprisingly well. Anyway, I was 18 and my parents told me to take the car up island (Vancouver Island, BC) to pick up some paperwork, and I took my camera. :) "I showed my Mom this picture about ten years later (hoping that there was a statute of limitations on stupidity); she wasn't impressed." -Mark Sumner |
  | 184. Two angles of a Pacer promo model submitted by Kevin Murphy. |
      | 185. Stills from Disney's 1995 movie, A Goofy Movie. Images captured by Bob Wilson and mirrored from his site. |
 | 186. "Here's an interesting photo I found in the October 3, 1999, Parade newspaper magazine. Here's the quote that came with the picture: 'My love for the '70s led me to purchase a '76 Pacer. And being a music buff, I got all 26 No. 1 singles from that year and affixed them to the interior roof, merging two artifacts of a bygone era.' The car belongs to Kenny Tucker of Chalmette, Louisiana." -Jason Bowler |
 | 187. "Bob [Wilson] (ArcticBoy), who lives not too far from me in Massachusetts, referred me to a great guy who owns a body shop a few towns away and who came over and didn't laugh at Joel-Judy Pacer, or at me for wanting to restore him! "When we opened the hood, two mice scurried out. And there are lots of dead bees and bee hives all over, inside and outside of Joel, who has been out of service for about eight years. "But he said he would do it!!!! And this is a guy who loves cars and doesn't look at it as just another job. We haven't even made an official agreement as to price and the et ceteras, but he sent for a tow truck to come and get Joel today. I took a digital photo of Joel as he was being pulled onto the flatbed, and here it is. "I never thought I would get as emotional as I did. Now I'll be relying on you folks to keep me apprised of available parts as he needs them. "I will be leaving Massachusetts and heading to Las Vegas maybe by next month and may not see Joel again for two years, but at least he's now in line for the loving care he deserves. YAYYYYY!!" "Joel-Judy shows up well in that photo, but in actuality is severely rusted. The sheet metal along the bottom edges of the whole car is badly rusted. The rear bumper has a hole in it. The plastic inside is all brittle; the entire driver's side door panel, on the inside, is broken in a million pieces, and everything is discolored. There are rust spots throughout the whole car, and Joel has been sitting outside all his life in Massachusetts. The engine hasn't been turned over in eight years, so we expect extensive mechanical work will need to be done. The brakes were rusted locked when the guy started pulling it onto the flatbed, and the back wheels weren't turning, but they suddenly released when he started pulling it. The paint all over is ready to flake if you touch it the right way, and the sun has discolored the paint all over the car. "I find myself wondering what will be left of the original Joel when he's all restored. I have been hesitant to join the registry in case I was not able to get someone to take Joel in before I left here, although if I had ended up having to junk him, I think I would have crawled inside him to die along with him. :-)" -Diane |
 | 188. An old AMC Dealership in New England. "You can just make out the large American Motors sign on the roof. I wish my friend had taken the shot from a different angle! The building is located in Amesbury, MA. I don't know anything more about it. My friend said that this was his first clue that his new hometown is a little behind the times." -Leon J. Doneski |
    | 189. "Here are a few photos of the '76 Pacer I recently finished(?) restoring. It was a typical $700 Michigan car when I got it: plenty of typical rust...and was also painted the typical burgundy body color. "Over the course of less than two years I stripped it down to a body shell to repair everything the best I could. I've rebuilt most everything on it and replaced most every rubber part on it inside and out. I've added a few somewhat unique touches, while still maintaining the Pacer image: Body colored bumpers "It's far from a 100 point restoration, but the intent is to make something I can drive instead of creating a piece of garage furniture!" -Brian Bradcoski |
 | 190. "My 17 year old daughter is the principle daily driver of this 1977 Wagon with like-new original leather interior and very little rust, 110,000 original miles. "[The car is] yellow with woodgrain, which I purchased in July 97 with 90,500 miles on the odometer. My 17 year old daughter drives it to school and work on a daily basis and just today returned from a 200+ mile round trip to Columbus, Ohio (I live in Dayton). My son just got his 'temps' so it looks like the venerable Pacer will be performing extended duties. According to the warranty in the glove compartment, it was purchased by a woman in Peachland, North Carolina on 22 February 1977. It now has almost 111,000 miles on the odometer with very little rust. I repaired some rust on the rear fender under the gas cap. It is almost impossible to fill the tank without having gas splash back out and run down the fender. "I pretty much grew up around AMC's. My earliest memory is sleeping on the parcel shelf under the rear window in my Dad's Hudson Hornet on long trips (you wouldn't think of doing that now). He traded that in on a midnight black '59 Rambler wagon with a red stripe down the side and those BIG tail fins. That was traded in on a '62 Rambler Classic wagon which he had until I went into the Air Force. "The interior was filthy when I got it, but it was in really good shape after a good cleaning. Shortly after I bought it, I had to have the transmission replaced along with the exhaust system and starter. Work I performed myself included F/R brakes, wheel cylinders, shocks, rack & pinion assembly, valve job, rocker arms & pivots, timing gears & chain, rebuilt carb and new master cylinder. After reconditioning the head, I had an exhaust leak between the exhaust manifold and the head. The heat had warped it and, since there is no gasket, I had to take it back off and have the manifold milled. I also have an ongoing exhaust leak between the exhaust and intake manifolds." -George Colleary |
 | 191. "This will be the strangest Pacer photo in your archive. This car hauler was for sale in Oklahoma (the same place that Darryl Starbird's Spacer Pacer is in his museum) and asking price was $45,000. I understand it was on a Peterbilt platform, and you enter thru the rear hatch. I'm sure it could haul all the wrecked cars that had accidents doing a double take as this beast..." -Eddie Stakes |
 | 192. "[This] is from the 1974 American Motors Annual Report, which was sent to stockholders, dealerships, and others who were of importance to the company. This book is tough to find, but Annual Reports do occasionally pop up at National Meets. And while they are usually reasonable in price, they are worth picking up to see what went on behind the scenes at AMC." -Eddie Stakes The cover reads: |
 | 193. An ASCII art Pacer provided by Bob Wilson. The image is a GIF; you can find the text file here. Be sure to view the text file version in a fixed-width font. |
 | 194. This is Wendy Martin's former metallic lime green 1976 Pacer sedan. She wrote a fabulous story about how she acquired it, had it painted its distinctive color, and later had to part with it. You can find the story in the Pacer Stories section. |
 | 195. This 1977 woody wagon, located in Pendleton, Oregon, was listed for sale on eAuto Classifieds in March 2000. |
  | 196. These pictures come with a story from the Pacer Page WebChica. Thanksgiving weekend 1999, on the road from Sunriver back home to Portland, Oregon, I was driving along at quite a nice clip, when I spotted, out of the corner of my eye, this Silver Pacer Wagon parked in front of a very run-down roadside motel. I managed to scare the living daylights out of my victim-passenger boyfriend (now husband, so I guess this didn't traumatize him too badly) as I tore off the road and skidded into the gravel parking lot. Although the Pacer was missing four hubcaps and otherwise shoddy in appearance, it was still clearly road-worthy, which certainly counts for something! In my excitement, I took some very off-center photographs, which you see displayed here. |
 | 197. Another shot of the AMC dealership pictured in archive number 188: "This is a dealership that is about 45 minutes from my house. The photo of the dealership and my 78 Pacer was taken back in September. The building was built back in the 1920s as a modern gas station and garage. The owner's dad bought the garage and turned it into a dealership. I think it was a Willys Jeep dealership back in the 40s and 50s. They dropped the Jeep line and took on Rambler and Land Rover. Land Rover was dropped in the erly 70s. They had AMC up to the very end. There are no parts or literature at this dealership due to the fact that I bought them all. The building is currently being used as a car repair shop by the owner of the building. He still has a CJ2A Jeep from the 40s inside." -Steve Submitted 20 January 2000. |
 | 198. "So here's our '79 wagon, 6-cylinder. Looks good, drives even better. We've had it for a year now and never want to get rid of it again. One thing: Our hood ornament was stolen some time ago and we feel sort of naked without it now. We drive it daily, even with the fuel prices here in the Netherlands, which are $6 per gallon now! Engine: 6-cyl. 4.2 litre, automatic transmission Extras: PS This one was in a garage for 5 years. In and outside very dirty and dusty. Now we are glad to be able to wash it clean. Owner: Ton & Diana Tol Location: Scheveningen, The Netherlands" -Ton & Diana Tol Submitted 21 January 2000. |
 | 199. "Weird" Harrel Lamkin wrote to share a picture of his new Pacer: "Live long and drive a Pacer! I thought that one up myself! How are you doing? A friend of mine I hadn't seen for years, came by last week and gave me [a Racing Champions diecast]. I guess I'm still remembered for my Pacer race car. I found another one - It will be a street driven car. Here is my daughter giving it a wash." -Harrel Lamkin Submitted 25 January 2000. |
 | 200. "I enjoyed so much visiting your website loaded with phantastic pacer photos. If you like you can add my 'still sleeping' project to your gallery. I own a '79 V8 Pacer Limited. After driving it a few years, it has been stored 14 months now (after an engine crackdown) and waiting for my busy hands. Unfortunately I haven't got enough time, cause there is too much work in my own business as a freelance architect." -Joachim Haider (from Berlin, Germany) Submitted 27 January 2000. |