until 1987 when Chrysler bought it out from Renault.
Back around 1978 I wanted an AMC Pacer in the worst way. So, when the company my partner worked for, bought a fleet of them, I was tickled blue. They would drive their fleet cars for a year or two, then sell them off at a discount used car price. Employees would be the first to know when this sale was happening, and we could put in a bid and score one for our very own. This plan might have worked if the cars did. But they didn't. "His" Pacer was constantly in the shop for repairs. I figured he had just gotten a bad one, and we had enough inside information to put a bid on one of the good ones. But there were no good ones. The entire fleet seemed to spend as much time in the shop for repair as on the road. When my parents got rid of their AMC Hornet for basically the same problem, at the same time, my plans for buying a used Pacer were placed on the scrap heap. If they didn't work when brand new, they sure weren't going to become more reliable cars as they got more used. So, I never got "my" Pacer to go with my Edsel (two cars that were rejected by the public, supposedly for styling). These drawings are as close as I am ever going to get. (file w104c2-ch, #5388288)