You AMC guys,12.2 orig mile survivor!!!!!!

[69 OUR/TEA]

 Will we see this at Carlisle in the Survivor tent?



            http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pacer-12-2-miles-original-barn-find-survivor-new-/110700428420?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item19c6427c84

[elacruze]

Cool!

[Manfred318]

Nice I want one

[Tilar]

It is interesting, but there is probably a reason it only has 12 miles on it.  

I had a little Hornet that had that engine in it and for a 6 banger it ran really strong. Matter of fact all the AMC's that I drove, the engines ran pretty strong.

[bull]

This affirms a theory I developed about cars back about 10 years ago. You can put ANY car with low miles in a garage for 20-30 years and it will ALWAYS sell for a lot more than you paid for it as long as it's in decent, original condition. In this case a '77 Pacer is selling for close to three times what it cost new.

[TK73]

Factored in any inflation in that theory?

[69 OUR/TEA]

I bid $20k and still did'nt hit the reserve!!!!

[SFRT]

awesome

[tan top]

  , would of thought the  market for something like that is very small ,  although  have know idea what the AMC mob are into !!  think it should go to some kind of museum though , as its a time capsule from days gone by  

[bull]

Factored in any inflation in that theory?

Do they figure inflation for any other type of investment? Not sure how it's relevant. You spend $3k in 1977 and 30 years later get a 66% return (currently). We're talking a Pacer here, not a Ferrari. People hated these cars, loathed them, and many still do and yet the thing is selling for $10k with three days to go.

[TK73]

Not sure a '77 Pacer is an "investment"   

[John_Kunkel]

Wayne and Garth rejoice!!!

[daveco]

This is nuts!

[bull]

Not sure a '77 Pacer is an "investment"  

Well, it's selling for three times what the original owner paid for it. If it's not an "investment" what is it? It wasn't used for transportation unless you count the 1/3 of a mile per year it moved since 1977. This is the point of my aforementioned theory, really. Who would have thought a "new" Pacer would sell for this much in 2011? Would you have thought that?

[daveco]

What makes this one such a wild card is the total lack of comparables. And I really doubt there will be another one discovered.
Consider Anniversary Edition Corvettes, a bunch of those got put up on blocks so low mileage examples are relatively common.

But this is still just a Pacer and this is still just nuts!

[68X426]

Oh if it could only have been a '68 AMX.  

News flash: I have a microwave oven from college days in 1977. It only heated up 1 hotdog and 2 cups o' ramen. Stored away since '77. It'll be on ebay soon!.

[Drache]

Person drove it off the lot and got it home. That counts for 4 miles. Person drove it back to the dealership to try and get their money back. 4 miles. Dealer refused so the person had to take it back home. 4 miles.

Then .2 miles just moving it around the garage

[bull]

Oh if it could only have been a '68 AMX.  

News flash: I have a microwave oven from college days in 1977. It only heated up 1 hotdog and 2 cups o' ramen. Stored away since '77. It'll be on ebay soon!.

If I had one of those I would be selling it on Ebay too. I bet they're worth some decent cash now.

[69rtse4spd]

Wayne and Garth rejoice!!!

Were not worthy.

[RallyeMike]

So if you want the bragging rites to say you have the lowest mile survivor Pacer in the world, bid to buy.

I'm not sure you can call owning any Pacer bragging rights.


11.8 miles. Sure it was cheap, but then I guess she was too embarrassed to drive it.

[tan top]

Person drove it off the lot and got it home. That counts for 4 miles. Person drove it back to the dealership to try and get their money back. 4 miles. Dealer refused so the person had to take it back home. 4 miles.

Then .2 miles just moving it around the garage

thats funny

[Tilar]

Person drove it off the lot and got it home. That counts for 4 miles. Person drove it back to the dealership to try and get their money back. 4 miles. Dealer refused so the person had to take it back home. 4 miles.

Then .2 miles just moving it around the garage

thats funny

And probably true. Those things were a piece of crap back then, I doubt age helped the situation any.

[Bob T]

And probably true. Those things were a piece of crap back then, I doubt age helped the situation any.
[/quote]

So a turd is still a Classic Turd then 

[Laxy]

You can't polish a turd, but it looks like the guy made an attempt on the RH front guard.

[Aero426]

My thoughts on collecting low mileage Pacers:

"What was special then is special now.   What was ordinary then, might be rare now.  But it's still not special."   

[BrianShaughnessy]

I didn't like brussel sprouts in 1977....    I still don't like them now.     I bet they cost at least 3X what they did back then also.

[bull]

I didn't like brussel sprouts in 1977....    I still don't like them now.     I bet they cost at least 3X what they did back then also.

But if you could make more than $6k on 34-year-old brussel sprouts you'd probably sell them, right?

[Aero426]

This affirms a theory I developed about cars back about 10 years ago. You can put ANY car with low miles in a garage for 20-30 years and it will ALWAYS sell for a lot more than you paid for it as long as it's in decent, original condition. In this case a '77 Pacer is selling for close to three times what it cost new.

A $4000 investment untouched for 30 years at 5% would yield just shy of $18,000.    Usually I would say the car is still more fun, but I don't know about if I could say that about a Pacer.   

[daveco]

This car has not actually sold yet. Could be a ruse, put a ridiculous reserve on it then have a group of shill bidders create a false sense of value.

This is a $5000 car, max. ...Unless of course you lost your virginity in the back seat of a blue "77 Pacer and now own a software empire.

[Budnicks]

Oh if it could only have been a '68 AMX.  

News flash: I have a microwave oven from college days in 1977. It only heated up 1 hotdog and 2 cups o' ramen. Stored away since '77. It'll be on ebay soon!.

I agree if it was a AMX or Javelin or something along those lines but a Pacer??? You went to College??...LOL...Sorry I had to do that.

[bull]

This car has not actually sold yet. Could be a ruse, put a ridiculous reserve on it then have a group of shill bidders create a false sense of value.

This is a $5000 car, max. ...Unless of course you lost your virginity in the back seat of a blue "77 Pacer and now own a software empire.

I would think it's a $3,500-$4,000 car to someone with unbiased, unsentimental judgement since that's what it cost new. How do you account for the extra $1,000 of value? And seriously, who could ever lost their virginity in a Pacer?

FYI, adjusted for inflation it's actually a $14,222 car since inflation was brought up earlier. But if the investment numbers posted above are correct, a 4.4%-5% return is really pretty good on a Pacer of all things. I wonder if a Gremlin would do as well?

[daveco]

... How do you account for the extra $1,000 of value? ...

I give 'em a thousand dollars worth of insanity before institutionalization.

[nh_mopar_fan]

Came standard with the "pride delete" option.

[daveco]

Came standard with the "pride delete" option.