I may have posted this photo before, but never as a “CPotD”. I ran into this machine at a local car show. One of those oddities that you have put out of your mind and then when it reappears gives you a chuckle and a shrug. Care to guess the car’s identity?
AMC Gremlin?
Although I prefered the Pacer aka “The Guppie”
well… that was quick. Yes. It is a Gremlin.
Certainly odd to see one at a car show.
I had a buddy that had 3 of them. Last I saw in 1991 he was trying to mod one with the 2.3L turbo motor out of a ’89 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe…. Not sure if he ever suceeded.
Here is the rest of the car:
I was too slow on the uptake, and got here at comment Nu. funf, but I *was* going to post my SWAG which really was going to be a SWAG since I hadn’t a clue what it was:
“Grrrrrrrr emlin?” Grrrrr nada?”
🙂
I’m better than I give myself credit for!
Side story: The Gremiln’s designer, Dick Teague, was a kinda-sorta wartime buddy of my dad’s. Dad ran into him at the 1972 SCCA convention and AMC was all giddy in their recent introduction of the ‘Gremmie.”
Dick was *exceedingly* proud of the car’s design, but Dad was….*less than amazed*.
Dick asked Dad what he thought of the Gremlin and Dad, always at the ready with a pithy non sequiter, popped off this question: “Well, Dick….all I wanna know is, where did all the trunks go, you cut off the Hornets?”
Reportdely, Dick was *not* ‘tres amuse’ with Dad’s…..observations.
>:)