09/01/07
Numero Uno is AMC's Pacer: "0 to 60 in four-and-a-half hours. AMC's only conceivable excuse for this stylistic horror would be if their design crew was tripping on massive quantities of acid...and even then...it wouldn't be a good excuse."
We had a Pacer when I was a teenager -- I drove it to school for several years. I believe my parents still owned it when I went off to college in 1982. It was a disaster of a car, especially in cold Michigan winters. Since it was mostly glass, I spent an inordinate amount of time in the mornings scraping ice off the darn thing.
My parents were morons when it came to cars -- actually, I think it was mostly my father's fault. He had terrible taste in everything, from gaudy, crystal-laden chandeliers to olive green shag carpeting to pushy Korean mistresses. He purchased and owned, at various times, a baby blue Ford Pinto, a maroon AMC Pacer, a mint green Mercury Montego and a sunny yellow Ford LTD . . . and those are only the ones that I can remember!
Is there anything in the 70's that wasn't ugly?
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