My original in 1978

Below is the magazine of Carl Greens Pick Up that started it all for me and the reason I built mine.

My original in 2008 In Kansas with my new friend Otto Rolla the one who saved it from being crushed.

The New Look no chrome bumpers V-8 version drawn by Hot Rod Magazine's famed Steve Stanford
This is a true story about a simple car that I saw in a magazine and wanted to build back in 1977, finished it in 1978 when I was 18 years old, and then sold it in 84. The car I saw was 1977 Pacer wagon chopped by one of the most talented unsung custom car builders around Carl Green. He tried to sell the idea to AMC back in 77-78 just before their demise. The story goes like this I contact Carl to build the exact car he built just after seeing it in the magazine in 77. So I go and buy a brand new 1977 Pacer wagon off the showroom floor bring it home and began to cut it up. Carl kindly sent me some 35mm pictures and some direction that I returned to him with a thank you (He never saw the car finished until 30 years later) never to talk to Carl again until 30 years later. I drove the car for several years put it in car shows and had a blast with it. Going into business for myself and needing money I sold it around 1984. The person who bought it owed me some money for the repair to the passenger seat. So I held on to the title until he paid me… he never came back, so I still had the title and that is also what sparked the search for this car.
Carl and I at the same time without knowing (2007-2008) started looking for the same car (the one I built) for different reasons .For sentimental reasons I wanted to see if I could find it due to my Dads passing and his help putting the rear of the car together (he being a sheet metal man made it possible) After chasing leads from web sites, photographers, police buddies, Car clubs, Motor Vehicle records to no avail. My cell phone rings one night and a voice from the past (30 years ago). Carl Green on my phone telling me he knows where my car is. Carl gives me all the info on where the car is and that it's in Colby
I call the gentleman who ended up with the car and offer to take the car off his hands to no avail. After several calls and some pleading he says if you want the car you have to come out here and see it. That’s right I have to go to Colby
It doesn’t end there the car is so badly rusted I can’t use anything on the car but the bed my Dad and I made. So the hunt is on for another Pacer wagon but it’s 30 years later not an easy item to find especially one with out rust! Back to the internet a few weeks after leaving Colby and hunting the internet I find a 1979 V-8 wagon. It’s in