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Reminds of the period British car magazine that road tested a newly-imported Pacer, complete with dodgy RHD conversion.

They were not impressed.

3 hours ago, Rob Hall said:
4 hours ago, Atmobil said:

I wonder how that has ended up here in Norway.?

In a container on a ship, probably.

It didn't rust out completely on its ocean cruise?

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36 minutes ago, Brian Austin said:

Reminds of the period British car magazine that road tested a newly-imported Pacer, complete with dodgy RHD conversion.

They were not impressed.

It didn't rust out completely on its ocean cruise?

Interesting...googling turned up pics from that article and a RHD car (maybe the same car...custom RHD dash).

http://www.smcars.net/threads/amc-pacer-circa-1975-rhd.24572/

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7 hours ago, Atmobil said:

 

I wonder how that has ended up here in Norway.?

The true question is "why" it ended up in Norway.  An economy car so underpowered that they had to add a V-8 to move it off the dealer lot.  An "economy" car with a 1975 American V-8.  Then again I understand they eat lutefisk up there.  How bad is the fish that they have to soak it in lye to make it palatable?  ?  Hey, we may have lost our minds here but not our sense of humor.

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9 hours ago, The Junkman said:

The true question is "why" it ended up in Norway.  An economy car so underpowered that they had to add a V-8 to move it off the dealer lot.  An "economy" car with a 1975 American V-8.  Then again I understand they eat lutefisk up there.  How bad is the fish that they have to soak it in lye to make it palatable?  ?  Hey, we may have lost our minds here but not our sense of humor.

somebody in Norway liked Wayne's World!  ?   It's a recent import, still wearing US plates, so someone imported it on purpose!  

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8 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

somebody in Norway liked Wayne's World!  ?   It's a recent import, still wearing US plates, so someone imported it on purpose!  

Personally, I'd have imported Tia Carrere or Lara Flynn Boyle but they probably weren't available for export. ☹️

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On 8/22/2019 at 10:55 PM, Tom Geiger said:

Followed his GPS without challenging it?  ?

In that case they are probably heading for New Zealand now as the GPS is showing them the shortest route too a McDonalds.

9 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

somebody in Norway liked Wayne's World!  ?   It's a recent import, still wearing US plates, so someone imported it on purpose!  

Quite possibly so, if one imports a car to the country one can legally drive with foregin plates for one month I belive.

18 hours ago, The Junkman said:

The true question is "why" it ended up in Norway.  An economy car so underpowered that they had to add a V-8 to move it off the dealer lot.  An "economy" car with a 1975 American V-8.  Then again I understand they eat lutefisk up there.  How bad is the fish that they have to soak it in lye to make it palatable?  ?  Hey, we may have lost our minds here but not our sense of humor.

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I google TRUPACE and Pacer and found this:
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7186509-v5-concours-dlemons-amc-pacer-19

http://photos.montereyherald.com/2017/08/19/photos-concours-dlemons-in-seaside/#2
https://driving.ca/ford/auto-news/entertainment/behold-the-auto-freak-show-that-is-concours-dlemons
https://www.blick.ch/auto/abgefahren/schrott-ist-hot-concours-dlemons-zitronen-auflauf-id7186542.html

This looks to be the same car?

 

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On 8/22/2019 at 9:16 PM, Rob Hall said:

Interesting...googling turned up pics from that article and a RHD car (maybe the same car...custom RHD dash).

http://www.smcars.net/threads/amc-pacer-circa-1975-rhd.24572/

 

 

Interesting...it was I who posted that article on the SMCars site.  ? I have now posted the complete article in a new thread. in the 1:1 Reference section of this forum

 

I don't recall seeing the silver/grey RHD car before though, so I find that one of interest.

Note that the registrations on the cars shown in the RHD car above, the one reviewed in the article, and  a third one in the ad I posted with it are all different.  So how many were there?

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On 8/24/2019 at 12:51 AM, Atmobil said:

In that case they are probably heading for New Zealand now as the GPS is showing them the shortest route too a McDonalds.

Quite possibly so, if one imports a car to the country one can legally drive with foregin plates for one month I belive.

?

 

I google TRUPACE and Pacer and found this:
img_9360-1.jpg

7186509-v5-concours-dlemons-amc-pacer-19

http://photos.montereyherald.com/2017/08/19/photos-concours-dlemons-in-seaside/#2
https://driving.ca/ford/auto-news/entertainment/behold-the-auto-freak-show-that-is-concours-dlemons
https://www.blick.ch/auto/abgefahren/schrott-ist-hot-concours-dlemons-zitronen-auflauf-id7186542.html

This looks to be the same car?

 

I once again spotted this car just a couple of hours ago going north (southbound last time) this time on the same road. Quite possible that someone here has imported it.

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