Sunshine Yellow is a great, cheery color for a Pacer. It would be a shame not to be able to find this car in a sea of silver, black, white, and gray SUVs in a parking lot, so the yellow helps (cough). This sunny 1977 AMC Pacer D/L Wagon is listed here on Facebook Marketplace in beautiful Idaho Falls, Idaho, and the seller is asking $10,500. Here is the original listing.
Even though the Brady Bunch TV show had been gone for a year by the time AMC debuted its Pacer for the 1975 model year, I can’t get their song “It’s a Sunshine Day” out of my head, seeing this Sunshine Yellow Pacer D/L wagon. It would have been tough to fit all nine Bradys (including Alice, of course) into a Pacer, even a wagon, which came out two years after the two-door hatchback coupe.
We’ve seen a few Pacer wagons here on Barn Finds, including this nice yellow one back in 2023, but I don’t remember too many showing the rear wing windows open. That had to help a little bit for the back seat passengers. We don’t know if this car has air-conditioning or not, the seller’s description is pretty short, saying it’s a two-owner car. They show a photo of the gauges, and the odometer reads 82,244.7 miles, but sadly, they don’t show the engine. Otherwise, they give a nice range of photos, including an underside photo. I prefer AMC’s styled road wheels much better than their slotted mags. These always look like aftermarket wheels to me, not that it’s a bad thing.
That steering wheel cover would have gone great with the “Basketry Print Fabric” (sometimes called Aztec pattern) seats, but I can’t pin down this seat fabric or pattern. It isn’t shown in two brochures: here and here. The seats look nice, however, with no rips or anything major going on for the upcoming owner #3 to worry about. This car has the optional floor-shifted three-speed automatic
The rear seat looks great, other than what I’m guessing is an unfortunate feature of this fabric, where it looks dirty depending on which way the nap is brushed. I can’t imagine that’s dirt shown in the photo above. The rear cargo area also looks fantatsic, but speaking for a lot of the Barn Finds and used vehicle fans, in general, we want to see the engine! Why would anyone not pop the hood to include an engine photo when they showed everything else? This one is said to have a 258-cu.in. OHV inline-six, which was rated at 114 horsepower and 192 lb-ft of torque. It’s backed by that floor-shifted TorqueFlite automatic sending power to the rear wheels. Oddly, they don’t say one word on how this car runs, but I have to believe it runs as well as it looks. Any thoughts on this Pacer wagon?
Another chick magnet!!