Did you have an AMC Gremlin back in the day ? Did you like it, love it, hate it ?

[steve2470]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Gremlin

I never did. No offense to anyone, but I thought it was the most unusual car design EVER. The gullwing design of the DeLorean was right up there also.

[hunter]

1. My brother had the over-inflated version, the AMC Pacer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Pacer

None of these old cars handle as well as modern vehicles; they have some bad quirks you'll only discover by driving them hard, or worse, when you want them to go one way in an emergency and they go the other. I'm always hyper-aware that they're not as safe in accidents.

[NJCher]

3. The Pacer!

That's the one I loved! I thought the wraparound rear window and the huge front window was so revolutionary.

I never had one, but I wanted one.

Cher

[PasadenaTrudy]

2. We loved ours! n/t

[Phentex]

4. My sister had a brown one...

Drove it for years and passed it down to 2 other brothers. I'm not sure whatever happened to it.

[femmocrat]

5. I really wanted one!

But we got a VW Rabbit instead. Had all kinds of problems with it. Husband didn't listen to me...... as usual.

[Zorro]

6. Yes. Purple. Bought it from my brother when he went into the Navy

It was about the cheapest car out there at that time.

3 speed on the floor, and built like a tank. Drove it from San Diego to Florida through a few Arizona dust storms, and it kept plowing through the haze at 50MPH while lesser vehicles pulled off to the side of the road.

Never did understand why people considered it fugly -- The Honda Civic that came out about 10 years later took a lot of the Gremlin's styling cues.

[progressoid]

7. I drove a Hornet for a couple years.

After my siblings had already driving the piss out of it. Still, it was a sturdy car. It was grey with a burgundy interior.

[cloudbase]

8. My wife had one when we began dating

back in 1973. It handled okay when it had a full tank of gas, but wasn't all that balanced with a near-empty tank.