7/19 - WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR - [SPOILERS]
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7/19 - WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR - [SPOILERS]
This was a category on the Wednesday, July 19 show that has generated a lot of discussion, so I thought it was a good opportunity to make a special poll.
WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR
$400: Its safe-ish Corvair was discontinued in 1969
$800: In the early ‘70s it was farewell to its Fairlane
$1200: Neo, in 2014, you can no longer choose a new red nor blue Matrix from this company
$1600: Thanks for the Thing from this company
$2000: Its Pacer no longer sets the pace & we are not bullish on new Matadors
WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR
$400: Its safe-ish Corvair was discontinued in 1969
$800: In the early ‘70s it was farewell to its Fairlane
$1200: Neo, in 2014, you can no longer choose a new red nor blue Matrix from this company
$1600: Thanks for the Thing from this company
$2000: Its Pacer no longer sets the pace & we are not bullish on new Matadors
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Re: 7/19 - WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR - [SPOILERS]
Never across the board and I can only swear to have seen a Pacer in person. Matador meant nothing to me for getting AMC.
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Re: 7/19 - WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR - [SPOILERS]
There was also the Hornet & the Gremlin, maybe built at the old AMC plant in Toledo. Also watch the scene in "The Man With the Golden Gun" where James Bond literally drives an AMC Pacer (?) off the showroom floor in Bangkok in pursuit of Scaramanga.
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Corvair is the only thing that kept me from getting skunked. I don't think I've even heard of the others.
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Got 'em all. Easy peasy. I think I sat in a Matrix once, but it wasn't moving.
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We owned a Fairlane when I was a kid. 5/5 for me.
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Re: 7/19 - WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR - [SPOILERS]
I got everything except the Matrix. I well remember the Pacer and the Thing, and have certainly heard about the Corvair and the Fairlane.
The Pacer may not have been much of a car, but it was visually very memorable, plus if I remember correctly, it had a commercial that was famously parodied on SNL with a rabbi performing a circumcision in the back seat. I'm not even sure what the original ad was, maybe someone making a long hero sandwich???
The Pacer may not have been much of a car, but it was visually very memorable, plus if I remember correctly, it had a commercial that was famously parodied on SNL with a rabbi performing a circumcision in the back seat. I'm not even sure what the original ad was, maybe someone making a long hero sandwich???
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Re: 7/19 - WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR - [SPOILERS]
Never owned, driven, or ridden in any of them.
To me the big surprise so far is that as I write this the recent Toyota (admittedly, one that I clammed on) is polling no higher than the Volkswagen Thing. We do have some evidence now that the valuation of the clues in this category was mis-ordered -- that the AMC clue was easier than the 2 immediately above it, and certainly than the VW one.
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Chevy and Toyota were guesses. Ford Fairlane I knew.
Never driven/etc. any of them, at least AFAIK.
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Re: 7/19 - WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR - [SPOILERS]
When I was in the Boy Scout Drum & Bugle Corps I had a scout master who always drove second hand Corvairs and owned probably a dozen of them. I had a ride home from practice more than once. About ten years later, my younger brother had a '67. Rode with him a few times. Ten years after that, I helped restore a Corvair ramp side pick-up for my boss at the bodyshop, so I got to drive that one a lot.
I got to drive a Pacer when I worked at a Firestone store in the late seventies. Took the owner to their house and then drove it back to the shop to have some work done on it. I was pretty surprised at how fun it was to drive with the 3-speed stick. It drove and handled really nice and I remember thinking; "I could see myself driving one of these back and forth to work". Ever since then I've not piled on when others make fun of the model.
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Re: 7/19 - WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR - [SPOILERS]
5 for 5, and I remember commercials, print ads, etc. for all of them.
Of the five, the only one I have first-hand experience with is the Toyota Matrix. Drove one for a couple years on a delivery job. Extremely well-designed and built, maybe one of the best cars of that ilk (larger-than average hatchback, almost a baby SUV) ever made. I'm surprised they stopped making them.
Of the five, the only one I have first-hand experience with is the Toyota Matrix. Drove one for a couple years on a delivery job. Extremely well-designed and built, maybe one of the best cars of that ilk (larger-than average hatchback, almost a baby SUV) ever made. I'm surprised they stopped making them.
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I may have ridden in a VW thing with the same buddy that owned a lime green pacer. I can't remember if he followed up this whopper with a Microbus, or a Thing, but I think it was the latter. Then he went to an Opel Manta, just to complete the loser trifecta. But I had an Opel Kadette for 30 years and a newspaper article showing Neil Armstrong with one in his driveway. He was a brave sunof'bitch.
I figured the pacer clue was valued on the basis that people would know it as the mirthmobile from Wayne's World - complete with licorice dispenser. However, knowledge of American Motors existence is a lot more YEKIOYD. It was the last rival to the Big Three (Ford, GM, Chrysler) before the foreign invasion. Unlike the Studebaker, there is no evidence that AMC was ahead of it's time. The Corvair actually was a sensible car until the hit job by a young Ralph Nader.
Went 4/5, did not know the Matrix, and I assume it was made in the US plant for the category.
I figured the pacer clue was valued on the basis that people would know it as the mirthmobile from Wayne's World - complete with licorice dispenser. However, knowledge of American Motors existence is a lot more YEKIOYD. It was the last rival to the Big Three (Ford, GM, Chrysler) before the foreign invasion. Unlike the Studebaker, there is no evidence that AMC was ahead of it's time. The Corvair actually was a sensible car until the hit job by a young Ralph Nader.
Went 4/5, did not know the Matrix, and I assume it was made in the US plant for the category.
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Re: 7/19 - WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR - [SPOILERS]
The Matrix is also the only one I've driven, if for only the +/- 500 miles from Long Beach CA to Tucson AZ. I drove my brother's Matrix and his neurotic dog to Tucson.
Before leaving for AZ, I smashed a finger helping to load furniture into the van. I ended up losing a nail. $#%*!!
The other big event from that was stopping just past the CA-AZ stateline after my brother saw a car go off I-10. He and his vanmate, both being EMTs, checked on the occupants, while I was parked at the side of the road with the dog. I took the dog out to find a comfortable spot for us to wait it out, 'tho the dog would have been more at ease in the car.
I thought the Matrix was a good vehicle. When it came time to get a new car, I was surprised my wife rejected it out of hand without a test drive, even though we were replacing an early year Rav4.
Before leaving for AZ, I smashed a finger helping to load furniture into the van. I ended up losing a nail. $#%*!!
The other big event from that was stopping just past the CA-AZ stateline after my brother saw a car go off I-10. He and his vanmate, both being EMTs, checked on the occupants, while I was parked at the side of the road with the dog. I took the dog out to find a comfortable spot for us to wait it out, 'tho the dog would have been more at ease in the car.
I thought the Matrix was a good vehicle. When it came time to get a new car, I was surprised my wife rejected it out of hand without a test drive, even though we were replacing an early year Rav4.
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Foreign invasion didn't kill AMC, Chrysler owned them and killed the division in the early 90s.twelvefootboy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2017 12:16 am I may have ridden in a VW thing with the same buddy that owned a lime green pacer. I can't remember if he followed up this whopper with a Microbus, or a Thing, but I think it was the latter. Then he went to an Opel Manta, just to complete the loser trifecta. But I had an Opel Kadette for 30 years and a newspaper article showing Neil Armstrong with one in his driveway. He was a brave sunof'bitch.
I figured the pacer clue was valued on the basis that people would know it as the mirthmobile from Wayne's World - complete with licorice dispenser. However, knowledge of American Motors existence is a lot more YEKIOYD. It was the last rival to the Big Three (Ford, GM, Chrysler) before the foreign invasion. Unlike the Studebaker, there is no evidence that AMC was ahead of it's time. The Corvair actually was a sensible car until the hit job by a young Ralph Nader.
Went 4/5, did not know the Matrix, and I assume it was made in the US plant for the category.
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Re: 7/19 - WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR - [SPOILERS]
5/5 for me. We had a Matrix for a few years and thats the only one I've ever been in. Someone in my hometown was a VW freak and owned a thing, beetles, karman ghias, etc. so that was a no brainer. I'm a car nut so I thought this was a pretty easy category for me, probably how others feel when there is a bible fill in the blank category and I clam all five clues...
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Re: 7/19 - WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR - [SPOILERS]
Only one person has said they have owned/driven/ridden in a Thing. Since we can't see who is voting in the polls (hopefully still a temporary condition), and we know Alex said he had one, we can delude ourselves into thinking Alex voted in the poll.
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Re: 7/19 - WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR - [SPOILERS]
Did anyone who got "Pacer" get it only as a rebound (ie clammed at first then when GMC was negged for some reason tried AMC)? (This is not me (knew AMC outright), but the possibility exists.
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I only missed $1,200. I know the Matrix is or was a Toyota model, but I was confused and thought the clue was saying the car was the Neo.
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From '69 to '71, spent three hours every weekday in a '66 Corvair doing deliveries for the family business, a photo lab that did developing for a host of camera shops. It was big at the time as the only rear-engine American car. Resulted in a flat floor and very light steering in the non-power-steering era. Ours had a two-speed Powerglide transmission operated with a small thumb lever underneath the front edge of the dash board. Many other interesting engineering features -- air-cooled flat six among them. Fun car to drive, but I wouldn't want to take it out on the interstate.
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