Posted on 07/14/2023 11:18:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
There was a time when I drove a 1966 Mustang, my buddy had a 1969 Cougar, a neighbor had a 1973 Vega, my father drove a 1969 Corvair and my oldest brother had the coolest car of all: 1969 El Camino with 396 engine, Cragar wheels and forest green paint. Gas was .40 cents in 1970 and going to a restaurant was a special event we did four times a year.
My current go fast car: CT5-V.” Wow. Please drive responsibliiy.
Yes and the SS super sport.
RICH corinthian Leather!
Why does that Cordova look like a cross between a New Yorker and a Monte Carlo?
Rich Corinthian leather.
My dad bought my mom a used 1962 or 1963 Dodge Dart. She let me drive it to school. One morning as I shifted into 3rd gear the entire gear shift just came apart in my hand. I had to coast to the curb and the tow truck came and got it. What a POS. 😆
We had the first 1970 Plymouth Duster in Europe. Our landlord saw it parked in front of out house and said, “Kapitalist!”
Funny guy!
1984 Buick Grand National. My VIN is still out there.
Lot of mistakes in that article. Had quite a few of those cars mentioned in the article back in the day between the 60s to 80s.Good memories.
Well played!
With the oval rear window! I bought my first car in 1966, a very used 1960 VW Bug with a 36 hp engine and no gas gauge. It did about 20 mph tops up steep grades. If you ran out of gas you flipped the lever on the floorboard to go to the reserve tank.
***The problem was that these iconic cars handled poorly and usually had terrible brakes.***
Exactly right. Which is why the earliest remedy available was not headers and pipes, but upgraded brake pads and eventually front disk brakes. There was a flood of aftermarket parts dealing with suspension that were also coming into play.
The only remedy for apex was lightening everything fore and aft with an emphasis on aft. The 67-69 Camaro/Firebird was a classic example of all head no tail. Very hard to control apex.
Dodge Dart was exactly that, no more than a street drag racer.
Best design of the era was the Charger IMO. A little heavy OEM, but well remedied later.
Comet Caliente.
I bought a 69 GTO in 1978 for $250 bucks. It was worn out though, it had 50,000 miles on it. No rips, no tears in the upholstery. Someone had put the spark plug wires on wrong, and it ran rough. It was a fun car.
My 55 Pontiac had a special and unbelievable history, staying with me without fail, with as little maintenance I could adford, for a v8 automatic it had better gas mileage than some friends better cars, made long trips back and forth between southern and northern California as well as trips to the beach and the mountains, and daily driver to school and work, and taking my fiancee out on dates, and not a single major issue with the engibe or drive train - all through college.
Then when I was in the military and decided to sell the car and was driving it for the last time, on erranda around towm, when upon leaving my very last stop, suddenly I could not any gear from the transmission - none.
The next day an AAMCO shop thought at I had it towed my last stop, because they said I should not have been able to drive it for some considerable time.
There was not single band left inside the transmissio - just metal powder in the dirty transmission fluid.
True story.
Apparently when I was ready to give up the car and had compeleted all I needed to do with it, it finally gave up.
Why did the writer have to repeat himself so much? Why did the writer have to repeat himself so much?
Great minds. Only 13 seconds apart!
You both deserve the finest rich Corinthian leather!
I inherited a 73 Pinto Wagon. It finally decided to commit assisted suicide in the driveway ala engine fire.
I did have a good time with it though.
I was born in 1947, finished high school in ‘65
The favorite car for my classmates was a ‘55 Chevy.
I bought my first car two years later, a ‘65 VW beetle. It was two years old and used. Not many of us looked at new cars for our 1st and/or 2nd cars.
I learned to drive in a 1953 Studebaker 1 ton truck on the farm.
My first car was a 65 American Motors Classic Rambler. I have great memories of that car, faster than it looked but didn’t hog gas if you kept your foot off the GO pedal.
Over the years I had a 1968 Camaro with a sweet 327, a 1970 Chevelle SS with a 396-375 that guzzled gas because I COULDN’T keep a light foot on the pedal. :,-)
I wish I still had every one of those cars. :’(
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