Does anybody know if there is a manufacturer out therre that makes a 1976 AMC Pacer in HO scale? My dad still has his (200,000+ miles), and I want one, or maybe a couple...even though my main pursuit is the late steam era. Thank You
Funny you say that...I went to high school with a kid who wants to turn one into a fish tank...that would definatly turn heads on the freeway! Great idea, but I'm looking for something a little more prototypical, although for all we know it just may have been a fish tank in the planning stages!!! Thank You for the response.
Your best bet would be to go to your local hobby shop and look in the plastic model department. Find their smallest space ship and add wheels. It'll be about as perfect a match as you'll ever find. ------------------ Union Pacific - Hawaii sounds nice until you realize there are no trains.
This is getting even better!!! No, I don't think My dad's car could ever make it into orbit...much less off the ground(those glass windows really add alot of wieght). However, right now the hole in the manifold is slowly getting larger. Last time I rode in it in the cabin it sounded like a biplane or WWII bomber!!! There are trains in Hawaii...Sugar trains. See Garden Railways, I am not sure which issue, between 1994 and 1999. The author says his wife was thrilled on the prospect of a Hawaiian vacation without train sightings until they got there and discovered the museum...another vacation lost to train escapades!!! [This message has been edited by Benny (edited 01 February 2001).]
Looked around on the web today for manufacturers, and I don't know any Websites for any companies that produce vehicles. Perhaps I should go the way of a piece of carved block and a piece of vaccuum formed plastic. Thnanks to all of those that have contributed! [ 03 February 2001: Message edited by: Benny ]
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Benny: This is getting even better!!! No, I don't think My dad's car could ever make it into orbit...much less off the ground(those glass windows really add alot of wieght). <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Hey no offense - my parents had a pacer too. If I can still remember piling the whole family in, my parents and seven kids! <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Benny: There are trains in Hawaii...Sugar trains. See Garden Railways, I am not sure which issue, between 1994 and 1999. The author says his wife was thrilled on the prospect of a Hawaiian vacation without train sightings until they got there and discovered the museum...another vacation lost to train escapades!!! [This message has been edited by Benny (edited 01 February 2001).]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Yes I know. In fact I am a member of a club here on Oahu that has a layout in a restored narrow gauge box car that is parked next to the Hawaiian Railway Society. The HRS runs excursion trains every weekend. Unfortunately there are no working steam locomotives but they do have some in various stages of neglect/restoration.
You got SEVEN in ??!!!! Actually, I find that almost as funny as the orbit around the sun!!! I can remember packing six people in at one time as well as three train boxes during a visitation move not long after the divorce! Once we all grew up into young teens, however, it became a real crunch. I still cannot figure out how we got four people into that bench! I still remember when my dad first saw a promotional video for the Durango and Silverton RR. Imagine my surprie the next Friday, in which my dad drove eight hours to deliver honey, then announced as soon as I got home that afternoon that 1)we were picking up siblings for a visitation and 2) we were headed straight for Durango right after that(roughly a ten hour trip from Prescott, Arizona). One of the greatest weekends I have ever had. We went in the winter, and had a great time. A little tired on Monday, but happy. Great little car, the pacer. Had problems in the first 60,000 miles, but after that reliable as anything that ever came. Thanks for the response.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Benny: You got SEVEN in ??!!!! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Actually nine - parents plus seven kids. I have to admit though that my two youngest siblings were twins and they were on my mother's lap. (Days before car seats) Three in the back seat and two toddlers(+) in the cargo space. I don't blame you for laughing - I still am too.
I actually saw a Pacer once that looked nice...... It took me 10 minutes to realize it was a Pacer!!! The guy had chopped the front, raised the back with some big wide tires, stuck a small-block V-8 in it with the carb sticking through the hood, large chrome side pipes, tinted the windows and painted it jet black. It took a LOT of work to make that aquarium look like a car! Mark
