American Motors Corporation (AMC) produced the Pacer from model year ... V-8 engine and two-door station wagon model in 1977 didn’t generate enough interest. Sales continued to slide until ...

It's even more rare to find a collector who concentrates on the not-so-glamorous AMCs built between 1979 and 1983, when the Spirit, Pacer ... station wagon body, with its peculiar, high stance ...

Pacer is a name used by both Edsel and American Motors, which is probably why it hasn't been used again. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe wagon harkens back to the days when AMC was still a going ...

Others, like the AMC Pacer, virtually forced drivers to accept it. It wasn’t necessarily that wood paneling died out. It was that the station wagon collapsed and took out everything associated ...

AMC gave the Hornet a sporty AMX model, and the Matador Coupe got some "opera-windowed gimmickry," to make its sleek shape more formal. But the big news was a new Pacer station wagon, and-after ...

Steve Bashford decided that maybe a Pacer, dorky as it is, could be more than merely a running gag in the Wayne's World movies. He saw potential. Starting with a pristine '78 wagon with only 9,000 ...

Did you know that the AMC Pacer was originally designed around a GM engine? The mill in today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Pacer wagon is from the General, but not the Wankel originally envisioned.

Established in 1954 following a merger between the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and the Hudson Motor Car Company, American Motors Corporation (AMC ... door sedan, station wagon, and two-door ...

There's no rule that says a car has to be beautiful to be eligible for Collectible Classic status. The AMC Pacer isn't beautiful. It's definitely different, though, and people notice it.

A compact station wagon won't surprise anyone these days, but when it debuted the AMC Concord ticked a lot of the right boxes. Released at the height of the Malaise era, the Concord lineup ...

When my co-producers and I first announced that we were making a documentary about the history of American Motors Corporation, a few of our fellow AMC enthusiasts voiced a surprising complaint: Once ...