Quit saying that. We never would have had Wayne's World!
Or was that a pacer ? If it was, then nevermind!
Oh now, American Motors' Gremlin wasn't all that bad.
My first car was a Gremlin, 1974, six years old when I got it.
The only mishap I ever had with it was one time when the roommates and I were going to throw a party, and we used the Gremlin to pick up the 32-gallon keg of Falstaff beer. Once the keg was slipped in the back, I slammed down the rear window, shattering it to pieces on the edge of the not-quite-in-far-enough keg.
It was one of those rear windows that also had the heating-wires embedded in it, for winter, and replacement would've been expensive. I had a guy take a thick piece of plexiglass and cut it to fit inside the frame, and problem solved; it looked good as new.
Among routine problems, the oil valve cover gasket had only four bolts, which meant the oil valve cover gasket was always blowing out, spewing oil all over the engine. I had to have that replaced, I dunno, maybe eight times the four years I owned the vehicle.
Another of the routine problems was that the clutch always went out after circa 2000 miles; I'd learned to drive using a clutch, and can handle a clutch very adeptly, thank you, but the problem was some "figure 8" thingamajig through which two rods of the clutch passed, was made of cheap plastic, instead of metal, and so it broke frequently.
If I'd been older and wiser, I probably would've had someone fashion the "figure 8" thingamajig out of metal, but I was young and green yet, and had the means then, to pay the circa $150 (in early 1980s dollars) every time.
No motor vehicle is maintenance-free.
I rather enjoyed that Gremlin; it always got me to where I wanted to go.
The American Motors's Pacer, on the other hand, looked silly, like a pregnant egg or something.
