Vintage Cars

You Can Buy the AMC Pacer From Wayne’s World

The car that was launched into the ’90s pop culture firmament by Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, and Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody is up for sale.

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By Brett Berk

October 12, 2016 at 11:00 AM UTC

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Comb out your mullet, grab a red licorice rope, and cue up Bohemian Rhapsody, the 1976 American Motors Corp. (AMC) Pacer from Wayne’s World is for sale.

The bubble-shaped oddball, which was produced from 1975-1980, had its supporters prior to Dana Carvey’s “Garth” taking the wheel in the 1992 film and its 1993 sequel. Country star Conway Twitty owned one back in the day, as did former presidential candidate Mitt Romney (whose father once ran AMC). Iconoclastic fashion designer and stylist Patricia Field used to drive one around the streets of New York, and French bombshell Brigitte Bardot had one, likely given to her after she appeared in an advertisement for the curvaceous compact. There was even a family of animated Pacers in Pixar’s Cars film franchise.