The Concours d'Lemons is a car show, "Celebrating the oddball, mundane and truly awful of the automotive world."
The Pacer was the last all-new car AMC ever built. It put a lot of money into the project, and although initial sales were strong, it seems everybody who thought it was cool bought one, then they couldn't sell any more. It also got a reputation as a not very well-built car.
So you may look at the Pacer and simply ask, "Why?!" Well, Americans were used to driving big cars, and there was a market in the 70s for small cars that were as wide as big cars and that drove the way big cars did. AMC had used this same idea for the Gremlin.
* This car is done up as a replica of the Mirth Mobile from Wayne's World.
* I've never seen a Pacer on the street in Washington, though I have seen a couple of Gremlins.
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