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Where to Show Your Hurst Pacer

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angliagt, when i lived in savn. ga. i had my tr-6 stolen, the only rental car i could find was one of those, the guys at work promptly began calling me "the boy in the bubble". :blush:
 
For their time, they weren't all that bad. We had a ton of people who bought those things for their kids in college and they ran them well over 100K miles.
 
coldplugs said:
I ~love~ it! It disturbs me, but Pacers and that ilk look better & better every year.

Warsaw Pact Class! I need a Wartburg!
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John, the Wartburg is a pretty decent little car, I knew a guy in the UK who had owned several of them. I'd drive one, but I prefer my two-strokes to be Saabs or DKWs.
 
Seems like they've dozens of different classes for these classless cars....
 
I'd love to go to that show. The overall lighthearted attitude is great. Many car shows are far too serious.
 
A car show where one of my cars might
be in "too nice of shape" to win!How cool is that?

- Doug
 
Banjo said:
I'd love to go to that show. The overall lighthearted attitude is great. Many car shows are far too serious.
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That may be true, but given a choice between looking at Pacers or scrubbing my bathtub, well, where's the brush?
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">Monterey County-Mandated Warning:</span> No wine, cheese, straw boaters, silicone-augmented cougars, or watercolors of pre-war Grand Prix races are sold at this venue.</span> [/QUOTE]
I thought it was illegal to sell cougars. :nonono: :smirk:

BTW, I haven't seen a Honey Bee in person in about 25 years. I'd be willing to bet a good one would be a rarer find than almost any regular production Ferarri.
 
I've PROUDLY owned 2 1969 Hurst SC/Ramblers - the "A" paint scheme with the HUGE red side panels, a 1970 Rebel Machine - one of the red, white and blue ones, a 1965 Rambler Marlin, a 1970 something Gremlin, a 1970 something Hornet Sportabout - aka stationwagon, a 1982 Jeep Cherokee Chief with a 401, a 1969 AMX - for the parts, it was a rot box, but the engine was good. I doubt I'll EVER see a Marlin sell for the 140,000 I saw a 1969 Mustang Mach One Cobra Jet sell for at a Meachum auction the other night. AMC's/Ramblers are much like LBC's - under appreciated, a lot of fun if you can "appreciate" their "character flaws" and usually more affordable than their contemporaries. :smile: Imvho!
 
I'd also love to be at that show... I get rather tired of seeing row upon row of old Camaros and Mustangs at shows... And all the 1950's cars that are so over-restored...

I just love an underdog :thumbsup:
 
meh. I used to SELL AMC cars. They sat in a showroom amid Lotus Europas and Alfa Romeos. :shocked:

Once had a fella order a Pacer with a spec'd bunch of options, to be delivered to his house on Christmas eve. A gift for his wife and kids. That was kinda fun.
 
I worked on and loved the AMC Eagles. If it weren't for them, all of the AWD cars that hit the market later on wouldn't have developed so quickly.

And those Scramblers would go like a bat outta you know where. If you stripped the smog junk off of the 401 AMX's and put a decent carb and intake on, you could make one fast car out of them as well.
 
I've rather a thing for old AMC's-they were just that much different than the usual suspects-stuff like the AMX or Javelin, the Matador, Rebels, etc. were pretty well standard American cars, but their idiosyncratic styling appeals to me. I also really like the last of the line AMC Spirit GT and Spirit AMX hatchbacks. I saw one at Road America last summer and couldn't stop talking about it.

I wonder if there's any truth to the rumors that there are guys all over Kenosha who used to work for AMC, and who have buildings full of spare parts, full 401 blocks, body panels, and so on.

-Wm.
 
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