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!
**The first was a brand new 1970 Maverick with a 170 ci six banger and three on the tree.**
Me, in the spring of 72, a farmboy with livestock money to burn, bought a 69 baby blue 2dr falcon from my neighbor. He had bought it new the fall of 68. It had the 170 ci and three on the tree. I envisioned putting a 302 in it, but hadn’t by the summer of 73, when I spied a 71 Mach 1 I wanted.
The original owner of the falcon, a farmer and optometrist, worked a job in a city. He would drive 46 miles round trip, 5 days a week: 6 miles of limestone gravel, and the rest paved. So it got the double whammy when precip came along: lime mud and road salt. He was tight, and wouldn’t ever wash the under side.
Sold it, bought the 71 Mach 1, ... and went through the same disappointment. Only this time the mustang owner drove almost 90 miles a day for his job at John Deere. He didn’t like to wash the underside of a car either.
It was rotting out underneath, in the trunk, and around the tailights by 76.