Everyone knows that I love loser cars. I seem to gravitate towards the odd, eclectic, underpowered and unloved. Well, there aren’t too many cars that are more of all of those things than the AMC Pacer! That’s why I was so stoked when I got my hands on the MPC ’78 coupe from Round 2 a couple of years ago. I’d seen the on the second hand market, and wasn’t about to pay what they wanted there.
It never occurred to me that there would come a day that we’d be able to actually go into a shop and CHOOSE between two different Pacer kits! However, when I saw the new AMT ’77 Pacer Wagon in a local shop, that’s exactly what happened! Two different kits, of two different body styles and two different years. It’s loser Nirvana!
While I don’t normally get too excited by AMT’s, there’s nothing not to like about this one. I mean, it’s a Pacer wagon and it comes with all kinds of crazy custom bits! Check out the newest addition to the Pacer model kit family out of box here:
https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/round-2-amt-125-1977-pacer-wagon-out-of-box/
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Re-released Pacer Wagon - out of box
Mechworker
Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 04:36 AM UTC
Scarred
Washington, United States
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Posted: Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 02:29 PM UTC
I actually learned to drive in one of those. Looked just like the one on the box down to the rims. It wallowed like a pig, had absolutely no power and on a sunny day you baked in it because of all the glass. It was like being in a rolling terrarium. One night, while practicing night driving, a rabbit ran in front of the car and I'm not sure but I may have ran it over or it laughed itself to death after seeing someone actually driving an AMC Pacer
jimb
New York, United States
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Posted: Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 05:11 PM UTC
Very nice review, Adam. I do remember seeing these on the roads back in The Day. We didn't have one, though. My Dad had a Ford Pinto wagon & my Mom had a Ford Maverick.
Jim
Jim