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Posted by MickeyG on Wed Feb 9 14:24:17 2011, in response to Re: The (Not So Good) Old Days, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Feb 8 11:07:48 2011. Absolutely!The cars of the 70s get a bad wrap from all you "muscle car only" guys. Don't get me wrong, I love a good muscle car, but the cars of the 70s take a lot of heat because they were the 1st cars post muscle car era. Everything is too qualified by hp....There's much more to a car than that....(unless you are one of those types who makes up for a decent sized male appendage with hp--usually, the bigger the engine, the smaller the appendage...lol) Look at the cars of the 50s.....dripping with character, chrome,and a whopping 180-200 hp under the hood...yet most people revere them....Why, their style...and the 70s was the last decade for style to be maiunstream vs an exception. Cars of the 70s were the last to be a machine out of Detroit vs a plastic laden appliance like what is pumped out now.... Yes, there were insurance issues, fuel issues, emissions issues.....Detroit had to fall back on styling because it could not keep up with government standards changing so fast. GM actually scrapped cars waiting on the assembly line for finishing because they did not meet, yet again, changed emissions from the time the assembly started to the time the cars would have rolled off the line!! Washington was not giving any grace period for Detroit to figure out how to make it all work. So they turned to styling and luxury....A Granada from the 70s had a more luxurious interior than today's Lincolns and Cadillacs! As for muscle cars of the 60s..yes they were fast....but they didn't stop, turn, handle. They rusted as quickly as anything else Detroit might have built that people complain about..They were plain and began to defeat the purpose... If you need to delete radios, heaters, make bumpers aluminum, change the front end to fiberglass, remove rear seats, etc..all to go faster, then by a Maserati and forget it... Bumpers in the 60s on muscle cars were ornaments...heaven help you if you wrrecked in a 1st gen Camaro or Mustang.....The bumpers on those things were jokes... Give me a 76 Lincoln Town Coupe or Cadillac Coupe DeVille anyday over a 1st gen Camaro.... Get ready, the people who grew up with 70s cars are just now getting to a point where they can afford to pay for classics and the demand for them is rising as well as prices..... Did anyone ever expect a 76 Eldorado to go for $30k or a 77 Trans Am? Well, watch the auction houses...they are..... I'd give plenty to see real chrome bumpers and fender skirts again.....and whitewall tires...... |
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