350 4bbl and all the cop stuff Elwood listed in The Blues Brothers.
Ex-P.G.County (MD) car. I had it for a few years in between overseas tours. I still miss it, looking for a same-year coupe.
Posted on 07/22/2023 6:14:14 PM PDT by DallasBiff
I still love vintage Blazers.
‘79 two door Cutlass here. Painted it Cadillac grey, the windows were very tinted and grandfathered in when the new tinting laws were enacted.
I was a 25-year-old White dude. The Chollos thought I was a gang banger when I rolled up. lol
Chicks seemed to like the car.
Really? Is that true? Or just a coincidence? Fascinating.
I do know the report that Nova meant No Go in Spanish and that’s the reason why Nova’s weren’t sold south of the border was a myth.
350 4bbl and all the cop stuff Elwood listed in The Blues Brothers.
Ex-P.G.County (MD) car. I had it for a few years in between overseas tours. I still miss it, looking for a same-year coupe.
Those were real vans. You could beat those Chevy customs into the ground. Great home conversion vehicles two. My Navy buddy ripped out the rear seats out of his Chevy custom, threw in a mattress, and built a cabinet and shelves with a small table that swung out for the Coleman stove. We hunted and fished the potholes in eastern Washington in that thing for years, beating the shit out of it exploring that massive preserve. Right before Washington State morphed into steaming pile of gun grabbing dung.
I worked at a gas station in the ‘70s. Every night just before closing the same guy would bring his Vega in for $2 of gas and a quart of oil.
I've always thought the vintage Mustangs peaked with the '69/'70 body style. Ford missed the boat on the retro-styled models in 2005 or so, when they offered a "California Special" model but not one with Mach 1 trim. The '69/'70 design was clearly the inspiration for that new car, but the company didn't fully exploit the idea.
I don't recall specifically disliking the '71-'73 cars, but I agree with your assessment. There was more to like in the Maverick, especially the 2-door Grabber model.
The Screaming Eagle. I plan to get one tattooed on me - My husband has the first generation logo tattoo, and I want the second. I grew up in a ‘78 Trans Am, and I miss it a lot. I got to drive it before my Dad sold it, but I was too short to reach the clutch. (Sigh)
Yep, my dad bought a new 74 chevy, 3/4 ton 4x4. The box was showing rust holes in 78.
I didn’t keep my Monza for very long.
I had a drivers side tie rod end break loose and almost had a head-on collision with a logging truck.
Still laugh at a car magazine summing up the wretched Cinnamon:
“Reminded us of a Honda Accord that did not run very well.”
How would you like to work at the factory, that put this out?
CEO?, shareholders?
All the best !
Nice. I bought a 1979 Mercury Zephyr for $300 in 1997.
We tried to put it on two wheels off of a ramp in a snowstorm.
It didn’t work, we crashed. Good times.
>>Big unreliable gas guzzling V8 American cars began to decline when the Accord was introduced.
The oil embargo in the mid/late ‘70s was the bigger influence on the death of the gas guzzlers. When you could only gas up every other day and had to wait 5 hours in line to do that, econo-boxes had greater appeal.
We owned several cars from the 1970’s, and miss all of them.
The first was a brand new 1970 Maverick with a 170 ci six banger and three on the tree. Paid just 2 grand for it. I wrecked it and bought a 1966 wrecked Mustang for parts, as all the front end, undercarriage and rear end parts bolted right on. I even put the 289 in the Maverick.
Also had a 1970 Torino, 1970 Chrysler Newport, 1976 Datsun B210 and a 76 Chevy wagon. I miss every one of them!
My ‘73 Cutlass replaced my ‘60 Gran Torino.
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