But this largely-unknown half-assed attempted re-purposing of the AMC Pacer into a sort of baby Cherokee ... Really, this sort of predicts the coming of small 4x4 SUVs and crossovers like the ...

The ’77 AMC Pacer was nothing short of quirky. ... Carl Green took the Pacer into his shop where he planned to turn the wonky wagon into a 4x4 pickup.

There's a little Pacer up front and some Gremlin out back. Now, remember that AMC's vision of the future was that of small cars. So while this was a van, access to the rear was awkward.

Perhaps most notably, the headlights of the concept crib heavily from the AMC Pacer, one of Teague’s earlier works. Four-wheel drive was also an AMC hallmark, too. The later AMC Eagle and SX4 ...

The custom 1976 AMC Pacer from "Wayne's World" is being auctioned at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale event ahead of the film's 30th anniversary.

The AMC Pacer is really America's Austin Allegro, a Seventies car that was so uniformly inept in almost all respects that it has passed into folklore and become perversely "cool".

Ah, the AMC Pacer. At a time when American vehicles had football fields for hoods, the Pacer was a bulbous little runabout with distinct 1970s charm. And now, the most famous Pacer of them all is ...