Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Pacer brakes fit 74 gremlin?

["Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxx>]

Yes, the Pacer was well ahead of it's time and now a slew of vehicles ont he
road have copied it's bodystyle from Toyota, Lexus, GM, Ford, everything
looks like fat Pacers. Next time you see a butt end of a Lexus SUV, or
Infinity SUV, look at the lines of it, take off the emblems and it could
pass for a 2004 Pacer wagon. The Mercedes E series stole, literally, the
front look off the 78-80 Pacer. Someone here find me a front shot of a 78-80
Pacer and a 98-up Mercedes E series and compare them, it is striking. And
Mercedes touted it was 'a bold new design' Bold new design my ass, but I
guess since we are, uh, 'related' to Mercedes via Chrysler via AMC, that is
ok.

Some of the slogans too chap my butt, a few years ago Honda was using 'built
for the human race' which AMC was using in 64-65 (very similiar!); Suburu
was using more recently 'the beauty of all whell drive' stolen from the 80
Eagle 'the beauty of four wheel drive'; and Pontiac was using 'wider is
better' no, not talking about my ex wife, but AMC used a almost identical
slogan in 1974-75 to intro the Pacer! amazing how some of these high paid
goons sitting around getting paid to come of with slogans simply go diggin
in old AMC literature I guess.

As for the front end, what is mostly desirable is the rack and pinion of the
Pacer, hot rodders love them. I have sold 3 pacers to people to butcher only
for the rack and pinions. Granted, I got tired of running ads and no one
wanted a Pacer, like that yellow 76 X in 1998 for $250, or the gold 79 in
1999 for $450. Ads ran for months locally and nationally, and all I did was
put together a list of people who called wanting the front end, and not the
rest. One guy beat my own deadline by 2 days, as I had a little yellow Pacer
in my garage with blown 258, but it had tons of new stuff like exhaust,
tach, waterpump, carpet, and I kept the $1400 of new rims/tires on it
however, that is all I wanted. But I tried to sell this thing for months
and had to move it and set a deadline to have it towed to the scrapyard.
Complete. And this fellow saw my ad and called and I told him come by, he
came by with truck and gave me $150 for it, hauled the compelte car to
Hempstead, TX, and promptly yanked off the R&P for his 50 Ford Truck. But I
get calls all the time from rodders wanting Pacer rack and pinions, I'm told
it is the best out there.
Sadly, on the other hand the R&P might be more desirable thant the whole
car, at least a few Pacers mentioned above!

I also wish to comment that in my humble opinion, there are only two cars
AMC produced that people remember. Pacer & Gremlin. Yes, some goons add
those to their 'most ugly lists' but again, they never would dare add ANY of
those newer models mentioned above that stole AMC design lines to their most
ugly lists, imagine advertisers bailing out right and left......
Eddie Stakes'
Planet Houston aMX
www.planethoustonamx.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <AMC74HORNET@xxxx>
To: <BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 5:25 AM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Pacer brakes fit 74 gremlin?


I have heard people on the AMX Files saying that they have used Pacer
brakes in conversions on other AMC's. I would imagine if the spindles
unbolted you cold swap the setup in a Gremlin. We need Eddie to chime in
here and I believe he has sold complete Pacer front ends to the street
rodder boys in the past. The Pacer was a car way ahead of it's time and
would fit in right now if it was made with a rotary engine.
"Doc"





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