Everything Old Is New Again

Those of you who know me know I’m definitely not a “car guy”, but this amused me. On my commute in this morning, I was driving behind a Volvo C30:

It reminded me for all the world of one of these:

Mmm, gotta love those AMC Pacers…

13 thoughts on “Everything Old Is New Again”

  1. stormdog

    I definitely see the reseblance, yeah. Of course, I’d take that AMC over the Volvo any day. The Volvo is way too new. Now, choosing between one of the great, boxy ’80s Volvos and the Pacer? That would be hard….

    1. stormdog

      Woohoo!

      My mate and I stopped to look at one of those that was for sale on the side of the road between Racine and Kenosha. As we were looking, this guy drove up alongside in a truck, stopped, and rolled down his window to call to us. “Hey! I used to put the dashboards into those things!” he said with this huge grin on his face. That was pretty cool.

      I so love AMCs….

  3. aeto

    The important thing, though isn’t that it’s a Pacer.

    It’s a Pacer, driven in reverse!

    (To me, it almost seems like a front-to-back mirror of the Pacer.)

  4. atara

    You know, I was just reading an article yesterday about how Pacers in good condition are selling for large amounts of cash to collectors these days. “Geek” cars are in. 🙂

    1. awfulhorrid

      When I worked at Envirotest Systems, testing car emissions for the state of Wisconsin, I saw at least two Pacers coming in to get their “final test” as they applied for their collectors plates. One was in pretty good shape and passed fairly easily, but the other was really worn out and the owners wanted to argue about the results when it failed really badly.

      So, when do we see the return of the Ford Pinto?

  6. girtygrin

    I’d like to comment that the primary difference between these two cars is the C30 is an amazing vehical while the AMC pacer was not 😉

    /Volvo Bias

    1. jmaynard

      Too bad Volvo is owned by Ford. While Volvos may well be good cars (although, once upon a time, they had a reputation of being either 400K mile workhorses or absolute lemons, and you couldn’t tell which until you’d owned it a while), the Ford Motor Company should go the way of Enron.

  7. typographer

    That’s barely a resemblance…

    There’s someone in our part of town who still drives a tan Pacer. I’ve never seen it actually moving, I keep encountering it parked in the parking lot of the supermarket, or the large drug store, that sort of thing.

    One night I was driving somewhere in our neighborhood, and a car pulled out in front of me, and I was absolutely certain I was finally seeing the old Pacer actually being driven.

    Then as we approached a lighted intersection, I realized it was the wrong color.

    The sad thing is, I have three friends who drive Impreza Wagons, and I had never noticed that the back end is so close to the Pacer…

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