Re: Dearth of Pacers

["Joe Fulton" <jfulton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Welcome back. I have a 75 Pacer which is one of my project cars.  Pacers do
turn up in the junkyards on occassion here in CA.  There is supposedly a
Pacer in a junkyard in San Jose at the present.

There is a Pacer mail list on the Yahoo groups organization.  Just go to
Yahoo.com and search under groups for Pacer and you should find it.  There
are several knowledgeable people on it, including Glen Hoag who is also on
this list and John Elle who used to post frequently on this list.  Post your
list of parts needs when you get it, and you may get some help.

Joe Fulton
Salinas, CA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brothers, Robert TQT" <rbrothers@xxxxxxxx>
To: <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 1:17 PM
Subject: Dearth of Pacers


After being away from the list while my 76 Pacer sat in the barn for the
last four (nearly five!) years, I'm now ready to get to work on it (the
Pacer... Not the list!).

After browsing the archive I'm struck by the scarcity of Pacer postings.
Have all the Pacers go on to the happy hunting ground? Or have I just
gotten worn out wading through  the "administrative" postings?

Anyway, I'm ready to get back to "restoring" the 76 Pacer D/L that I
bought at the Berlin, Germany Army PX back in... 1976(duh).

About 10 years ago I bought stripping rights to a junk-yard Pacer. Texas
wouldn't allow me to buy a junk-titled car for some reason, so I spent a
month in the mud taking it apart an hauling anything salvageable back
home. My major find was the factory air that my Pacer was lacking
(didn't need it in Germany).

Up until about 5 years ago the Pacer was a daily driver. Then I had a
problem with the A/C blower motor and in the process of removing the
blower assembly (what a pain) the plastic pieces that hold the bolts
that pass through the firewall disintegrated. So I decided I didn't have
the time to fix that and drove the Pacer to the barn and parked it next
to the 1975 MGB. There it sat.

Now my current daily driver (89 Lincoln TC) has acquired a knock (piston
or wrist pin, don't know yet, but I don't trust it driving the 75 miles
to Dallas every day. So now I'm "stuck" driving my 1971 Firebird 350
Espirit. Actually, it is fun, but at nearly $2.00 a gallon, it's getting
tight. I know the Pacer doesn't get good gas mileage, but it's GOT to be
better than the Firebird.

So... (yes I'm going to finally shut up!) I'm back to the list and hope
to get all the help that I used to back in 1999 and 2000.

As soon as I determine what parts I'm going to need, I'll post my
"begging" list.

Thanks to all for keeping the list going, and just remember the words
made famous by Rodney King.... Hahn...D*^^@, I forgot them!

Regards
Bob Brothers
Lone Oak, Texas