Lots of fatalities with these.
Posted on 02/14/2014 11:09:59 AM PST by EveningStar
It's hard to picture what today's teenagers will wax nostalgic about 30 years from now when they reminisce about their first car. (It still required gasoline, perhaps?) Who knows how automobiles will change in the future; what we do know is how different they are today from 30 or more years ago. If you fondly remember being surrounded by two or three tons of solid Detroit steel with a whip antenna on the front from which you could tie a raccoon tail or adorn with an orange Union 76 ball, and enough leg room that you didn't suffer from phlebitis on long road trips, then you might also miss a few of these.
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drove nothing but Dodge Darts (slant 6 first, then a V8) in the 80s and 90s...
loved those bench seats and vent windows!! used to take my kids to the last remaining Drive In Movie theater here in the Valley in Los Angeles....
just loved it... I could change the plugs on those cars in 10 minutes and the car would run like new..
Back in the day you could not lock your keys in the car, you had to physically use the key to lock a door. I missed that feature more than once.
You need a bumper to use a bumper jack ;)
Lots of fatalities with these.
I used to refer to the trunk of my 72 Lincoln as the Ocho Amigo trunk.
Slopers. I call them slopers. The roof line slopes very sharply down and the beltine slopes up resulting in much less glass and less outward visibility. And what was a fine looking classic look...
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has been reduced to this.
Those cool tinting corner vent windows that were on my ‘71 Pontiac.
In almost every case, I think they’d call that progress moving away from those “features”.
My plow truck is a 1980 Bronco. Minnesota has claimed 50% of the body (more rust then metal) but it’s an XLT ranger and I’ll be damned, ALL the options work.
Even the evil R12 filled AC works.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m5lmzsu9y6dz86n/13676794_1X.JPG
best 700 bucks I ever spent. Bought the plow, truck was free.
Station wagons! Growing up we always had a station wagon. After college I bought a pickup truck. Then with a family I wanted the features of a full-size truck, but also with a full back seat. But no station wagons around. A Suburban was an option, but I really needed a pickup. That was when the Chevy Avalanche came out - and it fits my needs perfectly! Except this year is its last year in production!
It was amazing how easy it was to work on some of those older cars. We had a number of AMC vehicles in my family during the 70s and early 80s. A few wrenches and a sunny afternoon was about all you needed to handle most maintenance or minor repairs in those guys.
Rear windows that- heaven forbid - went all the way down! And what is with the ones that go down almost all the way but leave 3 inches to go just so you can’t put your arm down.
Epic:
I had a Mazda RX8 that had suicide doors.
I always liked the “gutters” that ran above the front and
rear doors - and channeled light rain away if you wanted to
crack your window an inch or two.
Had to get a new one, so it was a big outlay but it felt justified. Of course the punchline is I’ve never had a flat since, got a slow leak once but spotted it and got to the tire store in time. Proof my mother’s axiom of “what you’re prepared for never happens” has some validity.
We lived in Seattle and it was always garaged, both at our home and at work. It was just starting to get a bit fogged when we moved to KY, but within two years I had to polish them. Worked beautifully. We sold it at 185k because the ac went out, the transmission was throwing a fault code (though it still worked fine) and a large buck had run headlong into the front fender, spinning around and trashing the entire driver side of the car, right after we cancelled comprehensive insurance. It was time to retire it.
We never loved a car as much as we did that Chrysler. I had it to 142 on I-94 in Montana and the car was a dream to drive all over the US. We still love the styling of that car.
I bought an ‘81 Low Rider because that model had a kick start.
All black. Damn I loved that bike!
2003 Ford Crown Vic w/ factory P71 police package - has full spare inside the huge trunk.
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