Cars of the 70s
Teu...@webtv.net
in the 70s. My dad had an ugly pea-green AMC Ambassador sedan that
always needed "fixing". It was a source of embarassment until my mom
"had enough" with it and bought a new '77 Pontiac Grand Prix with an
Olds 403 V-8! Our annoying neighbors had a Buick Electra and a Ford
Pinto wagon w/ ugly brown side panels AND a CB radio.
rob
James C. Dobrovicz
1. A '71 Ford LTD -- silver.
2. A '75 Century -- it was fire-engine red -- when we got that the LTD
became my dad's work car. My dad sold this one in '85 or '86 to a guy who
restored it and made it look better than it did when it was new. I think
that guy still has it.
3. A '75 Buick Electra -- it was silver originally but my parents had it
painted maroon. When we got this car in '78, my dad sold the LTD and took
over the Century as his work car.
4. A '78 Buick Electra -- powder blue. This car was a piece of crap. My
grandmother moved in with us in 1980 and she didn't drive much (she stopped
driving altogether in about '83 or '84) so we inherited this car. It was the
first car I drove when I got my license in '86. They got rid of it in '91.
5. An '82 Suburban -- black and silver. This was my regular car in high
school and college. They got rid of this one in '92.
6. An '86 Chevy Van. My parents bought this one when I was a junior in high
school and gave it to my sister in '98 when she moved out.
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Marie Crandall
"family car" portended the future divorce??? but i digress... anyway, my
mom had a cute lime green beetle and my dad had a mustang (NOT the
fastback, however).
THE FURBY KING
My top 10 favorite cars of the 70's would be as follows :
1. 1972 Hurst Olds 442 Official Pace Car (455 CID)
2. 1970 Chevy Chevelle SS LS6 (454 CID)
3. 1970 Chevy Chevelle SS (396/402 CID)
4. 1970 Dodge Hemi Challenger (426 CID)
5. 1970 Plymouth Barracuda {CUDA} Hemi (426 CID)
6. 1970 Buick GSX (455 CID)
7. 1970 Olds 442 W-30 (455 CID)
8. 1970 AMC SST Javelin (Mark Donohue Edition) (390 CID)
9. 1970 Ford Torino GT Fastback (429 CID)
10. 1970 Pontiac Tempest GT-37 (400 CID)
I am partial to the 72 Hurst Olds because I had a neighbor who was
lucly enough to have one of the original convertables... I fell in awe
of that car way back in '72... so much so that my first car was a '72
442 .
These are my favorite 70's cars... although technically # 2- 10 were
introduced new in 1969 !!!
I have lots of favorite 60's cars like the Superbirds and GTO Judge as
well as the very first Hurst Olds in 1969... but thats off topic !!!
So critisize if you will my list of favorites.... as you can tell i am
a bit of a muscle car guy !!! I tend to think it's a mid life crisis
dwelling on the cars that I listed. Remember Kevin Spacey's character
in American Beuty... he traded the family Camry for a 1970 Firebird !
As for my least favorite... maybe I'll start with the '75 Vega and
work my way around to the 1977 Mustang II !!
FK
Jason LeBouef
> Im curious to know what the "family car" was for most of us growing up
> in the 70s. My dad had an ugly pea-green AMC Ambassador sedan that
> always needed "fixing". It was a source of embarassment until my mom
> "had enough" with it and bought a new '77 Pontiac Grand Prix with an
> Olds 403 V-8! Our annoying neighbors had a Buick Electra and a Ford
> Pinto wagon w/ ugly brown side panels AND a CB radio.
>
> rob
The LeBouef "family car" throught the years
1970-1977: 1968 Pontiac Executive (AM radio)
1977-1980: 1977 Dodge Royal Monaco (CB Radio & 8 track)
1980-1985: 1978 Caddilac Coupe DeVile (CB Radio & 8 track)
Naz Reyes
>Im curious to know what the "family car" was for most of us
growing up
>in the 70s. My dad had an ugly pea-green AMC Ambassador sedan
that
>always needed "fixing". It was a source of embarassment until my
mom
>"had enough" with it and bought a new '77 Pontiac Grand Prix
with an
>Olds 403 V-8! Our annoying neighbors had a Buick Electra and a
Ford
>Pinto wagon w/ ugly brown side panels AND a CB radio.
>
>rob
LOL, that's a step up from an AMC Ambassador to a Pontiac Grand
Prix!!! :)
My dad had a '75 Chevy Nova, which I inherited in 1983 and became
my first car :)
My favorite back in the 70s was a Monte Carlo (my dad's friend
had one). It was smooth and classy for that time.
-Naz
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>
> I am partial to the 72 Hurst Olds because I had a neighbor who was
> lucly enough to have one of the original convertables... I fell in awe
> of that car way back in '72... so much so that my first car was a '72
> 442 .
>
> These are my favorite 70's cars... although technically # 2- 10 were
> introduced new in 1969 !!!
>
> I have lots of favorite 60's cars like the Superbirds and GTO Judge as
> well as the very first Hurst Olds in 1969... but thats off topic !!!
> So critisize if you will my list of favorites.... as you can tell i am
> a bit of a muscle car guy !!! I tend to think it's a mid life crisis
> dwelling on the cars that I listed. Remember Kevin Spacey's character
> in American Beuty... he traded the family Camry for a 1970 Firebird !
>
> As for my least favorite... maybe I'll start with the '75 Vega and
> work my way around to the 1977 Mustang II !!
>
>
> FK
This is great. I love old cars!
The first car I remember us having was an old white shitbox- we got rid of
it when I was six. A ford, I think. Then we got a valiant, 1966. Great
car- but it got damaged in a freak hailstorm in 1969 - hailstones the size
of golfballs with spikes, like a mace!
Then we got a pontiac cheiftain, a two door, olive green. Later, we got a
used Volvo for my mother and that was the car we learned to drive in. This
was actually after my father got the great idea to buy a Chevy Citation as
the second car, and it was the lemon of all time. My father was very
chintzy and had a great nose for lemons because he always wanted to buy
old or cheap cars. The valiant was new, but all the cars we got after taht
were used. After the Pontiac, the car he got for the FAMILY was a huge
Buick, I think it was. I hated it and never wanted to drive it. Not long
after that my parents divorced! For a while we lived with my mother and
drove a leased Chevy celebrity. I loved it! It drove great and had a nice
roomy trunk. It was the 8os by this time and then I moved out on my own-
no more family car!
WLFan00
go in the shop. It borke down constantly.
We also had a great green and white van. We nicknamed it Bobby Van.
(seriously) I loved that van. I don't know the model of it. All I remember
is the sliding door to get in sometimes stuck.
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remember we had a country squire once with the fake wood panel on the sides.
Yecccch! I remember the year we got the station wagon with the extra seats in
the back. My mother or father would be driving and us three kids would be
waaaay in the back!
Lorrie
Dixon Hayes
one and a 1977 gray one, both with wood on the sides. The 1977 car was
especially notable for the "clank" we heard from the driver's side rear panel
whenever we made a sharp left turn; turned out to be a beer can that got
manufactured into the car somehow.
People younger than me laugh when I mention these cars, and say "You guys were
the Griswolds?" referring to the family in "National Lampoon's Vacation." They
have no idea there were as many of these cars on the road in those days as
there are mini-vans now.
Dixon
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Let's see,
We had a bitchin' 69' Impala.....3 kids in the backseat all the way to
California from Ohio.
72' Ford Torino wagon...490c.i...a real sleeper,with a rear facing "rumble
seat."
72' Monte Carlo....puke green.
73' Chevy Vega...my Dad won it in a raffle.
76' Chevy Country Squire wagon...great for reverse burnouts.
77' Ford Mustang Cobra 2.......a total piece of crap,3 trannys in 6 months.
79' Chevy Monza.....V-6 with a 4 speed,very quick,I learned how to drive a
stick in this car.
-Doug
PaigeTurner
was always able to resurrect ours from the dead and keep 'em
running endlessly. The two main cars I remember we had when I
was growing up were a 65 Checker Marathon sedan, and a 63 Dodge
of some sort. It had a push button transmission. When the
Checker eventually got demolished by a drunk driver (he
broadsided us), we got an Ambassador. My very first car was a
76 AMC Matador.
Dick Long
bought a new Cougar in 1968, I was ten at the time and thought
that would be great, but he ended up with a nondescript chevy
sedan.
In 1976, when I went off to college, I got my dream car, which I
wish I still had - a '68 Olds 442. Bright red with black vinyl
top, Cragers, and Goodrich Belted TA's. This was one fine
machine. I like the Accord I have now, but NOTHING could ever
match that 442. '68 was the year they did the radical body
style change from the long and flat thing to a more rounded
style and I have always liked that year the best. There are
some good pictures of 442s here:
http://www.glorene.com/auto/99picnic/photos.htm
Looks like a neat club.
DL
JEfferies Sucks!
Zep77
blue Volvo sedan.i hated both of them! by the end of the 70's my dad had a
diesel VW rabbitt.
mike
THE FURBY KING
<dicklong1...@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:
> '68 was the year they did the radical body
>style change from the long and flat thing to a more rounded
>style and I have always liked that year the best. There are
>some good pictures of 442s here:
>http://www.glorene.com/auto/99picnic/photos.htm
>
>Looks like a neat club.
and speaking of Vista Cruisers... I understand that somewhere there
are 2 1972 Vista Cruisers with 442 Pace Car treatments still in
existance... With 455s and Hurst Dual Gate shifters...
I.M. Late
>in the 70s. My dad had an ugly pea-green AMC Ambassador sedan that
>always needed "fixing". It was a source of embarassment until my mom
>"had enough" with it and bought a new '77 Pontiac Grand Prix with an
>Olds 403 V-8! Our annoying neighbors had a Buick Electra and a Ford
>Pinto wagon w/ ugly brown side panels AND a CB radio.
>
>rob
before I was born, my parents had a jag XKE convertible. Later, i remember an
impala due to the round headlights. then...
1968 chrysler town and country with woodgrain sides.
1971 plymouth satellite sebring. (wish i had it now)
1976 monte carlo with half vinyl top.
dad had a little white (typical) fiat and other assorted cheap and broken down
cars
later, mother and her new husband got a 1981 diesel cadillac with all the
problems and my stepdad also had a ragged out and very rusty 1975 camaro type
LT.
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ALS 62
couple of VW Beetles. He had a Green Hornet and a Yellow Gremlin and a
Matador. I wonder if he was trying to make a statement about his personality
with those vehicles! Also, he had a 1959 VW Beetle with pull out flashers on
the door rims and a 1964 1/2 Mustang....always was asked if he wanted to sell
them, but he never did. The VW ended up in the junkyard and my husband got the
Mustang after we got married. He restored it with hopes of saving it for our
daughter but life intervened and we had to sell it unfortunately. My Dad
always had several cars at the same time and I never knew just which vehicle my
parents would be cruising in that day. It always stunk for me because the
other kids parents had one car and they always had a heads up when the saw it
coming down the street. If they were doing something wrong they manage to duck
out of the way to avoid parental prosecution at home......not me.....I was
always caught by that element of surprise by virtue of not remembering what the
vehicle du jour was! Believe it or not.....Gremlins and Hornets were at one
time quite popular and a regular sight on the road!
Anne
8/62
Class of 1980
Tim
>
> My dad had an assortment of AMC vehicles throughout the 70's along with a
> couple of VW Beetles. He had a Green Hornet and a Yellow Gremlin and a
> Matador.
There's some guys I went to school with here that run a salvage yard.
They love AMC Javelins and AMX's. They have several restored cars, and
even have a couple built for drag racing.
Tim
Tom
...1969 Chrysler Newport convertible (with big FLY NAVY sign on side).
...New 1973 Lincoln Continental.
...New 1974 Lincoln Continental Mark IV.
...New 1975 Chrysler Cordoba.
...New 1976 Chrysler New Yorker.
...New 1977 Lincoln Continental Mark V.
Joy910
aqua-ish blue Ford Falcon they got in the sixties and we had for years!!! In
1973 my dad got a used (I am sure from the late 60's) white Ford Galaxie 500.
They had that until 1985. They got rid of the Falcon in 1974 and got a brand
spankin new red Ford Mustang 2, with, like most cars at the time, absolutely no
extras. Air conditioning was an extreme luxury. My mom drove that car until
1988, I think. I can still hear it squeak as it pulls onto our street and into
the driveway. Thats how we knew mom was home. My parents paid $3,200.00 for
that car.
Joy
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LizzieZ
to that a brown Oldsmobile Omega hatchback shortly thereafter. The Omega had
an 8-track player in it. That was eventually replaced by another brown Olds (a
two-door Cutlass), and later a blue Olds Cutlass Supreme, followed in
succession by 2 Cutlass Cieras. (My dad always said he bought Oldsmobiles
because it was the dealership closest to the house - he could walk back home if
he needed to drop the car off for service!) The Catalina was replaced by a
sky-blue Buick Century that lasted until 1982, when it was replaced by a light
sea-foamy green Olds Cutlass Supreme. So I learned to drive in the green
Cutlass and the charcoal Ciera.
Liz
Sandy
>aqua-ish blue Ford Falcon they got in the sixties and we had for years!!!
Hey Joy, we had a Ford Falcon too! Ours was a blue station wagon. I named it
Blue Bird. That was in the 60s. Then in 1968 we got a brand spankin' new Ford
Galaxy Custom 500 that was dark green. I named that one Greeny (oh, and we had
a black cat named Blacky and a rabbit named Bunny....such original names, huh?
lol!!)
We had the Galaxy right through till 1983, I think it was, when it finally fell
apart *sniff, sniff*. My Dad saved me the manuel, keys and the name off the
side of the car before he junked it....so I'll always have a piece of it <3
Sandy
2-60
Class of 78
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had a moon roof (long before I had ever heard of a sun roof) and we kids
loved sitting in the back seat so we could stare up through the glass in the
roof.
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1974 Purple Gremlin. It had a big ol' white hockey stripe on each side
and it had white leather bucket seats and black carpet. We had it up to
1985 til it died. I miss that car because it had a speedometer that
went all the way up to 120 MPH and NO METRIC!