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Old 04-14-2024, 1:55pm   #1
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Default Back in early 70s when cars were cool..or so they claim
Nice rims /wheels.
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The only vehicles I saw painted like that in the 70's were vans.
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Old 04-14-2024, 2:11pm   #3
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Cragers are cool, but not on that car.
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The 70's were wild times. Lots of psychedelics. Hippy chicks with huge bushes. Leaded gasoline. Classic rock.
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The 70's were wild times. Lots of psychedelics. Hippy chicks with huge bushes. Leaded gasoline. Classic rock.
It was considered new back then.
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MMMMMMmmmmmmmm----Leaded gasoline.........
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The only vehicles I saw painted like that in the 70's were vans.
Or Matchbox
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MMMMMMmmmmmmmm----Leaded gasoline.........

You know it, brother. The sweet, sweet smell of unburned hydrocarbons coming from an idling 440 wedge with a purple cam would bring tears to your eyes. Next to Hoppe's, it's one of my favorite smells.
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You know it, brother. The sweet, sweet smell of unburned hydrocarbons coming from an idling 440 wedge with a purple cam would bring tears to your eyes. Next to Hoppe's, it's one of my favorite smells.
Ah yes. The old Hoppe's #9. Have some in the cabinet.
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Old 04-15-2024, 6:53am   #10
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Not a big fan of the 70's cars with a very few exceptions, by mid-decade muscle cars got bigger, uglier, had more beta male amenities and less performant. Asinine paint schemes not withstanding.

There will never be another era like the 60's...

My 1975 LeMans-GT - affectionately known as "The Battlestar"... Rebuilt the old Quadrajet more times than I can count and it had plugged mixture screws and "fixed" linkage to hit emission requirements. I had to get very creative to get it to be less of a pig on the move. Passed off to my Mom and then my mechanic brother. He still has the car and has turned into a ground-pounding beast...

Now if somebody offered me a '72 Barracuda Hemi convertible...
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Old 04-15-2024, 7:32am   #11
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...mild but
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...mild but gay
Hmm, I agree!
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Badazz, but not a 70's car...
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Did you read what Rickles wrote about it?
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I think this style was more 80's.
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* Cragars
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