What's not to like I remember it was a real pain doing the valve cover gasket with half that engine under the dash because the Wankel wasn't ready and they had to squeeze the 258 in there. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/910858072983821/?ref=saved&referral_code=null
My mom had a pacer, very futuristic! Not. What's the Wankel story? I never heard anything about AMC working on one...
Wankel motors were to be suppled by GM... GM failed to make the Wankel work to EPA standard (That was GMs BS claim) and failed on their contract to AMC... AMC designed the Pacer around the Wankel...
That's not nice, to talk about her like that... Anyway: the passenger door on a Pacer was longer than the driver's door. Also unique was that the passenger door was four inches (101 mm) longer than the driver's on the left side. This made passenger loading easier, particularly from the rear seats; and they would also tend to use the safer curbside in countries that drive on the right. 25 years ago I had a 1978 Pacer with a Buick 455 in it, kept ripping off the mounting points for the leaf spring shackles
I hated working on them, but I have very distinct memories of seeing them at the Car shows and it was the first car that looked anything like an artists conception of "Cars of the future". Crap cans for sure, but still a slice of automotive history at least for me.
My parents had one. Question from childhood that mystified me as a 12 year old: what is the purpose of that black dong-looking thing that is attached to the underside of the hood? (Funny replies anticipated.) I assumed it was meant to somehow cushion the closing of the hood, but it seemed kinda ridiculous...
Steve it's simple buddy, that black dong thing goes into that black vagina thing and makes baby pacers. Just see my birds and the bees illustrated pic
