On one of my social timelines a guy regularly posts old automobile ads which I enjoy a lot. Strange thing is, I’m actually starting to miss AMC (American Motors Corporation.)
@odd My father said the Pacer looked like the ball turret of a B-29 bomber. It was not one of AMC's better designs.
@bradenslen Agree on both accounts. But at least it looked original. The cars of today look almost identical to me.
@bradenslen @odd My mom had a Gremlin at one point when I was a kid. A cat jumped down onto it from the very low roof of the neighbor's garage next to our driveway and left a dent in the sheet metal.
@petebrown Oh, not nice, kitty! I found this article when looking it up.
Funny-looking and developed on the cheap, the Gremlin was pure corporate brilliance.
@ddanielson I had the Javelin too, but only as a Matchbox toy car. It was a nice looking car, the original that is.
@ddanielson @odd @petebrown The Javelin was a good looking car. My father had a couple of Rambler sedans in the early 1960's which were very nice. AMC sold a heck of a lot of Gremlins. It was a good small car and priced lower than it's competitors the Ford Pinto and the Chevy Vega. And as it turned out, the Gremlin was safer than those two as well.
Even though I joke about it, that's what I miss about AMC: you could get a car that that served your needs at a more affordable price than the other American cars. We seem to have lost that since AMC got gobbled up.
Same holds true for Studebaker cars. My first car was a used 1960 Studebaker Lark.
@odd @ddanielson we still have an AMC Javelin Matchbox car in the house. I think it was my sister’s then it made its way into my collection, now my kids have it.