1978 AMC Pacer Wagon - Jay Leno’s Garage

in the window right here my little model, yes, there you have it, but there is no ls3. Where did you get an MTS and is it an AMT? In fact, I just finished building it last night, oh wow, well there you go, so you're really living the pace of life again, yes, absolutely, and this heat drops, obviously, that's right and you have little lockable compartments here, right, that's a lockable one there, yeah, right on that side, yeah, and two speakers in the back, yeah, well, I'm not sure what music you use. I would play in a

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what Queen may be Queen may be too new.

I think more like the Archies. Okay, yeah, very cool. I don't think it was a huge hit, but it wasn't a bomb when it came out. Well no they're fine, they were extremely popular for the first two years, yes the problem was the car was heavier than the engine could really handle and you know in the mid seventies the fuel crisis hit and these did not get very good gasoline. mileage so their sales plummeted towards the yYears later, yeah, and of course all the Japanese stuff came with high revving engines and all that kind of stuff, this is just an American workhorse, it really had the big Reliable six-cylinder with carburetor and all that, yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty cool. cool, well we should take it for a ride, we spin it, look with that, sure, come on and maybe weave in a couple of Porsche owners, okay, that's cool, yeah, the bad thing is I might find some portions eleven, sir. three-speed automatic or four-speed automatic, so of course the right and we still have the AMC 20, maybe oh yeah, but we popped it from 273 open to 373 positions right and replaced the two-piece axle shafts with one-piece axle shafts single piece. so that was the weak point was the action, yes, yes, well, 373, the good ratio, yes, that's right and of course the fuel tank had holes in it, so everything was repaired and repainted, which in your cannon just put in a new fuel bank, we were naked.

There's no fuel for the fuel tanks, it's not really anything generic, a little bit thinner, no, because it's really strange because the fuel tank wraps around the spare tire, but the other nice thing is that a lot of the parts, like the brakes, they get them from gyah, it's just know what or use the sliding heart so the brake pads, rotors, things like that are still available, but there are also a couple of companies like Galvans in Klamath Falls, yeah, and Kennedy American , to name a couple, who sell vintage AMC parts, that's all they do well.

That's my favorite thing, you know, it's like remembering those Fahrenheit 451 books, yeah, wait, everyone memorized the book and walked. I know the car guys, that's all they have. I have a friend of mine who only knows his Hemi. He can tell you the date. Hemi became Larry was sick that day Bob reported if Bob was in the lane and they know everything he came to my

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what kind of cars they come out Duesenberg was that German no, it's American no, no, these things you never heard of, no I don't know, holy knows, I'm not happy that it's a Japan we have, so I imagine you visited the Nether Cut Museum how many times I love that place, right, it just amazes me everything in that place works and that was part of it. of inspiration here, yes. was that I wanted everything to be right, it still has it with the very good insulation for the rear, I'm afraid you like the red, white and the valve, so the story behind that is due to the heater box on the side of the passenger so we relocated the frame rail and then decided to do the same on the driver's side the bug was sticking out of them so I bought a pair and he brought them with them and then we painted over you.

You should be all over AMC Magazine. Yes, I am the seed you like. 50 is too small for me, small, tiny, I like it, she's a fool, yes, converted, we can go in, I have a great one, thanks for my rating, it will explode now, when you are a kid, would your family love the cars? I deal with my family for the most part before the police, yes my sister had a Datsun 510 when she was in high school. I bought a 60 cent for 75 dollars, it was always little here, road map. Remember, I mean 56, oh, that's good, yeah, I got it. a fast and good Roadmaster.

I'm like the first one, but when they got to California, three and 50 dollars had the Pennysaver. Yeah, the things I like about it are the cars I have for the modern cars. My hair goes away, yes, before I put everything inside that works very well. You know, it's fun to have different types of cars. I mean, I joke with the painter, but I love it because it's something you don't see. Everyone does the Lamborghinis and an upcoming episode of my NBC show. Jay Leno's Garage we have a race where we need a

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and a gremlin and I think we'll settle that old grudge once we're dizzy.

Have you thought about dropping my addition of a yes, yes, you know? I did it with a v8, the stick was actually pretty fast, it was the response of a dealer and Kenosha and I think that's where they were right, but you could buy it. I think it was called XR 401, yes, and that will be a gremlin with a factory 401. Wow. I love it because you know everything about the car was off, even the logo, the gremlin, it looked like that character from That's Bad, I Eat, member of Lucky Charms, that movie was bad, but the bad movie, you know, with a bad elf, remember that movie.

Terrible, where is the chance for luck? And he killed everyone in one moment and is so evil that he looks a little low. You know they were easy to fix. They were reliable. They were not particularly sophisticated or well designed. They were just solid and reliable. Well, Phil, thanks for bringing us along, I mean, I've been joking with you and having a good time doing it. I really like it. I think it's great. You've restored it and put this engine in it, but kept it looking completely original. I mean, that's the fun thing. The thing is that the old car jumps around with a limited number of Mustangs and Camaros that you can look at and it's fun to see what else was out there and what else got passed to a different drum.

This was a revolutionary car with different sized doors. and the terrarium aspect and everything I mean, it wasn't quite, they didn't hit, they thought it would be, but it's fun to look back on history and see what else is out there, thanks for being a good sport, thanks Mike , Yeah. Yes, I have to take a photo of his family, this is the family car, your son is here and your wife was there. I'm going to take all three of them and we'll finish with their photo, there you go, a family and a pacemaker, there you go.

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