This is a Custom 1977 AMC Pacer X. Designed by Dick Teague, the Pacer was a two-door compact car produced by the American Motors Corporation from 1975 to 1979.
Design work on the Pacer commenced in 1971 with Teague anticipating an increase in demand for smaller vehicles throughout the decade; known internally as "Project Amigo", it featured "a fresh design" with the interior room and feel of a big vehicle in a much smaller exterior package, with magazines describing the car as being "designed from the inside out". The Pacer was noted as the second American production car with rack and pinion steering, mounted low at the front of the crossmember.
Manufactured at AMC's Kenosha plant, the Pacer was offered with an AMC 232 ci (3.8L) inline-6 as standard, optimized for emissions regulations. Sales began on 28 February 1975, with the Pacer intended to attract buyers of larger cars to a smaller packaging when gasoline prices were projected to rise; although initially well-received due to its apparent futuristic styling and lack of direct competitors, the car's limited cargo space, low-powered engines and a number of other factors would translate to lower demand down the line. The car was also sold in Mexico under the VAM branding; it was also sold in Europe using promiscuous advertising. A number of Pacers were also converted to electric vehicles. In 1978 the car received a facelift in the form of a new grille before it was discontinued on 3 December 1979. 280,858 were produced.
Now this casting was designed by Larry Wood and introduced in 1978 as a mainline. It was retooled in 2011 to reintroduce the model into the lineup. It has seen twelve releases in total, the last one being this one, apparently replicating some car of this sort in Beavis and Butt-Head.
