1970s cars suck?

Blasphemy!



My 1970 beast.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
The car I learned to drive on:
1961 Chevrolet Biscayne. 6 cylinder. 3 on the tree. No power brakes. No power steering.

That Ford in my last post was my family's first with power steering - a full four turns lock-to-lock. But no power brakes. And drums all around. I don't remember having any trouble stopping it, though.

‘68 RoadRunner. I would have liked a ‘68 Charger. God I miss that RR.

recoatlift - That is some awesome Mopar muscle! I'd trade almost all modern comfort & convenience options for old school side vent windows.

So many choices!! But as a sixth grader, and to this day if I had the money my pick would be: 1971 AMC Javelin AMX. The school library had extra copies of magazines, to include the long defunct Sports Car Graphic. They gave me a copy of it with their review of the AMX. Love at first sight, even more so than I'd had with Daytonas and Superbirds.

As nice as those old cars were for their time they were pretty sad to drive and maintain compared to what we have now.

mid 60's goat
my all time favorite

I learned to drive on a 57 Chevy. I was 11 years old and had to set on a box to see over the giant steering wheel. My first car was a 67 Chevelle. I still miss that car.
Rod

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… angular garbage from today

Then proceeds to post the most angular car in history.

Barring the Aztek and Qube, I wouldn’t say today’s cars are more angular. But what do I know? My favorite car is a 1970 Superbee.

While an epochmaking car for it's time, I think the new ones look better.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
This one (in my garage right now).
Trip2005F 018.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr
000_0070.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

flashguy

Again how do I post a photo here?

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Originally posted by 12131:
Oh no, cars from the 70s are eyesore to me. Just like 70s music. They mostly sucked.

Thank FMVSS and it’s 5 mph crash and no body damage requirements starting in 1973.

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Originally posted by PASig:
My biggest issue with modern cars is the sameness of most of them, they all look so similar to each other anymore and there’s no more “look” of a certain make that really stands out like in the past.

Case in point: was leaving baseball practice one evening and started checking out the vehicle next to me: “Oh nice, it’s one of the new generation Honda HR-V’s” I thought. Nope, it was a Toyota C-HR.

They may as all come from the same designer and manufacturer

Yes. So many cars look like 'crossover' amorphous blobs now. Bland, no style. All the angles are gone.

I always felt that by 1973 the muscle car era was over.
Between impact bumpers and the drop in engine compression ratios, smog equipment, add in the CRAP metal that was used that guaranteed the whole car would rust away and horrible styling choices the industry was dead at least till the very late 80's.

armored,

Yes, the lousy steel that GM used in 73-74 for body stamping, how well I remember that.

My 73 Chevy rusted through at the outside mirror reinforcement on the door skin, car was two years old. By 1977 they got better but then from 75-78 small block Chevrolets had a propensity for flattening camshaft lobes, mine went at two years from the purchase date and 36k miles. Chevy tried to blame everything and anything but themselves for the problem.

I was working in a Chevy dealership parts department at the time and the factory rep tried to tell me it was because I was not taking care of my El Camino. Sure, I bought over the counter and installed factory tilt steering column, cruise control, a tonneau cover and a set of 78-79 Corvette aluminum wheels for it just to not change the oil! Made perfect sense to me.

And let’s not forget the Roger Smith era at GM, I still hand him part of the bankruptcy blame.

First of all, cars that I owned: two ‘65 Chevelle SS, and a ‘67 Camaro. All great cars.

This list of cars I would like to own from that era is long:
Of the tri-5s, a ‘55,
‘61 Chevy, doesn’t have to be an Impala,
I love ‘63 Ford Galaxies,
C1 and C2 Corvettes,
‘67 and ‘68 Mustang fastbacks,
‘66 and ‘67 Chevelles…
‘69 Camaro, especially Z-28
There are some Mopars I’d like to own as well, mid-60s Belvederes
‘66 and ‘67 GTO

Not quite considered a "classic" by many and not all that fast either, but here's my 1973 Lincoln Continental...

Super nice ride! Say that trunk could easily fit Jimmmy Hoffa after a 4 course meal at Sparks Steak House.

Does a GT40 count?

We had this, a 1966 Chrysler Newport when I was a kid.