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Hmmm. I drive an all-original 76 pacer d/l. No drooping headliner. It was some kind of hard paper based material. The only issue with that material is that after 30 years the paint is flaking away and it should be redone.
And it is silly to flat out compare two cars of different times. Market pressures and technology advances put them in separate categories. Emissions laws were different. needs of a customer were different and the methods of a car company were different. Let the pacer stand among the peers of its own decade, not against a modern car, let alone against a 1949 buick. Different animals, all of them.