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These AMC Pacers Aren't Just Ugly - They're Electric

Posted November 11, 2008 12:02 AM by dstrohl
Pathfinder Tags: AMC pacer amcpacer.com american motors electric vehicles EVs

This is why we should cry for the decline of vocational programs in our schools. According to Dennis Eichenberg, writing at amcpacer.com, a group of Cleveland-area high school vocational teachers got together once the AMC Pacer came out to form Electric Vehicle Associates specifically to convert Pacers to electric power. They then sold the Pacers to fleet buyers, and apparently built more than 100 such Pacers (they called it the Change of Pace) before AMC discontinued the Pacer in 1980. Are any of these still around?

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11/12/2008 8:47 AM

Well, at least they found something useful to do with them.
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11/12/2008 8:51 AM

That looks a bit nose heavy...still it's better than having an exploding gas tank in the back...or was that another vehicle I'm thinking of...?

Is that a particulary big Pacer or just a diminutive old dear?

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11/12/2008 12:56 PM

You're thinking of the Ford Pinto.

That is (or was) an ordinary Pacer. The US's initial attempts at small cars were not all that small compared to the VW Bugs and Jap imports of the 70s and 80s I recall driving in college.

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11/14/2008 5:29 PM

"..still it's better than having an exploding gas tank in the back...or was that another vehicle I'm thinking of...?"

...I believe you were thinking of the Ford PINTO?

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11/12/2008 11:23 AM

too bad the comments posted are about the vehicles appearance, at risk of ridicule i support the words cry about the decline of vocational programs etc. ever consider associating the decline of such programs with the decline in the ability of AMERICA to supply its people with readily available WELL made RELIABLE in USE products?

could it have something to do with politics and the influence of the the legal professionals attached to it. who knows, replies to that bizzare thought?

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11/12/2008 11:41 AM

Certainly you mean "cry at" (lament), rather than "cry for" (encourage).

Sheesh, schools nowadays.
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11/14/2008 5:38 PM

Thanks guys... mmmm Ford pinto....

How do you make a cat go woof?

Put him in a Ford Pintp <crump whoooooof>

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