What Are Your Favorite 70's Cars?

[skb12172]

Yeah, nostalgia is powerful. I was born in 1972. The first cars I can remember us owning are my dad's 1970 F-150 truck and my mom's 1969 Pontiac LeMans. Over my first ten years, that changed to a 1974 LTD (best family car we ever owned), a 1972 Plymouth Valiant, and a 1978 Ranger. My first car was a hand-me down from my brother. In 1988, he gave me his 1978 Dodge Magnum. Lemon yellow with leather seats and all the options. As a nearly 6 footer, I could lay down in the back seat without my head or feet touching the sides...that never came in handy as a teenager, or anything.

So, yeah, especially towards the end of the decade many of the cars were shiite. Nostalgia for one's early years is still a powerful thing, though, and I just like 70's cars. Virtually ALL of them, even the Mustang II.

[HTRN]

That was a cool car -- the unibody was a little underbuilt for a Hemi, though. Thing developed so much torque that the roof cracked on both sides.

Here's a little secret - one of the things streetracers look for when looking to setup a race for money, is to look at the rear quarters of the other guys car - fast brutal cars tend to "ripple" the sheetmetal.

Darts are kinda light - which is why they were favorites for turning into track cars. Mopar went even further with the factory cars, acid dipping the bodies to remove even more weight.


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[HTRN]

You know what was popular here in the mid 80s?

Tweaked 360 Dusters. They were cheap, and if you knew what to keep an eye out for at the E-town swapmeets, can be made VERY FAST.


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[TheIrishman]

Since we're going for the seventies I would love to have back my '71 SS Camaro. 4 bolt 350 block with a large journal steel 327 crank, forged rods and TRW flat tops. Angle milled and ported a set of LT-1 (original, as in '70 Z-28) heads with Isky roller rockers. Solid lifter cam that made the engine idle like a paint mixer. Full length headers feeding 3" Stainlessworks chambered mufflers with dumps just to screw with the neighbors. Trans was a full manual reverse valve body TH350 with a brake and 3500 converter. Had a factory 12 bolt that I swapped 4.10s into spinning Weld draglites and BFG Radial TAs. When the loud pedal hit the floor board atmospheric pressure shove cubic feet of air through a 750 Holly carb and single plain intake.

Funny thing is before I got my license I wanted a stock jeep CJ or YJ but my father would have none of that because of sensationalized stories of them flipping easily. Instead he let his only son buy a Camaro that could more than double the speed limit (and that was before I got my hands under the hood). I hear people talk about how they are amazed they survived their drugs/alcohol/fighting (add vice of choice) but my friends and I are amazed we survived the cars we owned. All '70s muscle from second gen F bodies and cobrajet powered mustangs to an AMC Eagle with a 401 javelin motor in it.

[Fivetoes]

Starting in the early 70's, the old worn out Dodge police cars started coming on the city auction blocks, Belvederes, Polaras, other I can't recall. Not real sexy looking rides but under the hood would be a 440 Police Interceptor engine.

[Jeffro]

Starting in the early 70's, the old worn out Dodge police cars started coming on the city auction blocks, Belvederes, Polaras, other I can't recall. Not real sexy looking rides but under the hood would be a 440 Police Interceptor engine.

One of my classmates bought a '71 Satellite with a 383 that was supposedly an interceptor. It had some legs,for sure. Like you said, nothing fancy - heavy duty vinyl bench seat, column shifter, original AM radio only, but he slapped some headers, air shocks, rear lift kit and some wheels and tires on it, and voila, a decent street cruiser for a high school kid. I got a warning ticket in it from the local constabulary.

[Aegis]

Starting in the early 70's, the old worn out Dodge police cars started coming on the city auction blocks, Belvederes, Polaras, other I can't recall. Not real sexy looking rides but under the hood would be a 440 Police Interceptor engine.

1974 Dodge Monaco

[Rich Jordan]

The '71 Challenger sitting in my garage (even though its still incomplete); first car I bought, and fortune willing the last car I'll still have when I kick off. There are other early '70s that I like, but this one is mine.

[MiddleAgedKen]

Starting in the early 70's, the old worn out Dodge police cars started coming on the city auction blocks, Belvederes, Polaras, other I can't recall. Not real sexy looking rides but under the hood would be a 440 Police Interceptor engine.

1974 Dodge Monaco

It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.

[Lokidude]

Fix the cigarette lighter.