AMC pitched the Pacer as "The First Wide Small Car", and they made a series of chuckle-worthy ads extolling the virtues of the rolling fishbowl's plus-size cabin. This is one of our favorites ...

1975 AMC Pacer “Sandwich King” commercial. Episode 5: 1978 Jeep Cherokee commercial. Tapes for the Memories.

SEASIDE, Calif. -- When it comes to cars that get no respect, the AMC Pacer has to be at the top of the list. But with a V-8 engine out of Chevrolet Corvette, this one certainly commands attention ...

Of course, we're talking about the blue 1976 AMC Pacer from Wayne's World.The breakout film for Mike Myers starred fellow Saturday Night Live alum Dana Carvey as Wayne's best bud Garth, owner of ...

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".

The AMC Pacer, meanwhile, was to be AMC’s breakout success all-new compact car, but it never happened. Produced from 1975 through 1980, the Pacer was built around a spacious, ...

As for AMC ownership, I also owned a new 1974 Hornet X 258, a new 1976 Gremlin X 258, along with the aforementioned ’73 Matador and low-mileage ’79 Spirit.