I had a piss yellow version of that car. It ran well with a 6 cylinder motor.

Looking back, the 70s beat the shit out of the 80s for cars, fashion, music and movies.

But cool 60's cars were just "used cars" in the 70's and priced accordingly.

True. We were poor. When the cans turned aluminum my little Daisy would rip them to shreds quickly. No fun.

Gross?  OP what are you 12

Four if you count the last real hurrah known as the SD 455 Trans Am.

The end of the muscle car started in 1970 with the clean air act and the newly minted EPA as well as insurance companies. Add the OPEC oil crisis a few years later. The government also mandated catalytic converters in 1975 along with the all new C.A.F.E. standards. The C.A.F.E. standards wouldn't take effect until 1978 but would make for automakers to scramble to put something together because it would require a fleet fuel economy average of 27.5 miles per gallon by 1985. Pretty much double from 1975.

Followed by Big Hair rock bands. It was the inevitable turn of decline for the US. Hippie communists settling into those Academic teaching jobs. Hairy-legged feminists screaming patriarchy getting all of the local government jobs. SkyNet coming into being. The K-Car.


80's car styling was uggghhhh!!!

You forgot about the goldfish bowl on wheels, the AMC Pacer.

In the big cities. Liberal policies just made places like NYC and Chicago complete shitholes during the 70's, a byproduct of the New Left and the '68 revolution. Hippies!

It got worse in the 80's with cocaine and then crack cocaine.

He redeemed us with Ronald Reagan.

Grad hs 1970,  enjoyed this trip down memory lane.  What's cool after 8 pages is obviously many of us while pushing 70 if not there already still dig guns, cars, rock, hot babes, etc.  Never too old to rock & roll...

Damn skippy!

Skinny women as far as the eye could see…..

That wasn’t gross at all.

I went to great rock concerts in the 70's! Drugs everywhere. As for fashion, daisy dukes, halter tops and Jesus sandals were pretty damn comfy. I can't complain.

And how have these cities improved now?

Hell, my friends and I would catch Red Sox games at Fenway and sit in the bleacher seats.

Tickets cost $1.50 and it was always a huge party out there with joints passed left and right the entire game.

Girls in short cotton dresses would walk by the bullpen giving the pitchers out there beaver shots all game long. Great fun.

You could walk out of Walmart, Kmart, whatever mart you liked with all the .22LR you wanted for about two cents a round and not give a tinker's damn about finding more later. It was always there.  I shit you not!

NYC made leaps and bounds better improvements with Guilliani.
Made the place livable again.

Chicago is just gangsta.

I used to think that until I started watching shows from the 70s-80s, we watched the old Wonder Woman TV shows from the 1970s, and I believe that woman were hotter then. They were more feminine and their outfits were nice. Same with Star Trek women, much more attractive then woman today. Society valued beauty more then obesity.

Not back when guilliani was there -now.

You know, now, where people get raped in the street. Where thugs walk past white people, punch them, and keep on walking. Where people get pushed onto subway tracks. Where mobs steal everything in the store. Etc and so on.

There were four carry-outs in my 6000ish pop hometown in West Central Ohio.  All four carried .22LR.  I and a couple of friends would do summer plinking just outside of town.  We'd walk across town carrying our rifles to go buy a box of ammo.  Nobody cared.   Did this a lot from about age 12 to 15 when hanging out at the pool with girls got a lot more interesting than shooting.

I can dig it.

Peace.

I was born in 69. I'll take it. I had a wonderful childhood.

The decor for me was the worst.  Avocado green and brown all over the place.  Not sure what they were thinking with that but we all saw it as normal lol.  The neon pastels of the eighties were a welcome change.  In all, though, the seventies (and eighties) were the last truly free decades and I cherish every memory from back then.  In fact, I would be willing to give up just about everything in the modern era to go back. The younger people will never believe me but it was a far better time.

I was a teenager in the 70s.  It was great.  

It wasn’t so much the 70s……….but it was being a teenager.  

Being a teenager is a great time of life.

Being 19 is fun……….no matter what decade it is.  

those can be useful in fights.

Totally digging Paul Rodgers is a freak of nature. Every time I have seen him, his voice sounds just like it did in this video. He is quite the front man.

Oh yeah, concert tix were $5 +/- for advance or at the door. Except for the Stones in '75, they were $10... but it was for J. Geils, Rufus, Atlanta Rhythm Section and The Stones. Talk about drugs everywhere...

Commies. Commies tooki it back over.

*cough* Deblasio *cough*

A completely normal and expected transformation. As you age and hopefully learn more, at some point you will become conservative and realize what is actually important. You will, for example, realize that 'law and order' is a very desirable state.

Yep.

I voted for Mondale.

Yep, in the late 70's young people could afford all that 60's muscle cars, at the time most were just used cars. David0858, owner of '70 Challenger with a 440 out of a race car, a '67 400 Firebird, a '69 Firebird and briefly a '68 Super Bee.

Then why are the teenagers now depressed anxious and sullen?

QUUAAAALLLLLUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDEEEESSS

I grew up in the 70's, would trade it for the current shit show in a heartbeat.

Depressed, anxious, sullen adults polling them ?

In my not so valued opinion, Carter and Disco, and cars built after 1972 were the main things that sucked about the 70's.

The 70’s were a great time to be a kid. The 80’s were the motherfucking best time to be a teen.  God I truly loved that time.

Me too, but if i could scrounge up a $20, i could get a decent, used starter at Bowie's junk yard to get the car running right again. I recall driving a whole week with a bad starter, but it was a three on the tree manual tranny. You don't really need a starter if you park on hill tops.

My girlfriend lived on a hill. Roll off starting also afforded a qiet, stealthy egress if you snuck out way after you were supposed to.

The Red Rider was the "iconic" BB of America, but they sucked balls. The 760 was was pure business with a pellet and at least ten pumps. I cannot count how many rats mine has killed. Still have mine.

Question for all the ones that think the 70's and 80's were so much worse than now:

Why are we here? Why is practically every thread bitching about some current issue that is so unbelievable and illogical it defies all sense of reality?

Why are we not singing the praises of this glorious new normal, this new unthinkable reality we live in? Why aren't we happy?

Even the music of that era was happy, unless you were a dirty hippie living in the past wailing Neil young songs. You might not have liked disco but it was happy.

Why are we complaining about the likes of Gavin  Newsom and trying to get him recalled? Why is Cuomo so bad.  Why are we obsessed with "bugging out"? We should be happy things have improved so much, that there is so much opportunity now. Why do we constantly move from neighborhood to neighborhood fleeing this awesome modern greatness?

As far as the music, all I read about here is how bad current music is. When was it good? You don't like old music, you don't like new music, you don't like the 70's and 80's, you don't seem to be able to find any redeeming features now either, every thread is bitching.

Do you like the current dating scene? Do you like the current acceptance of obesity? Judging from the pics it seems like you do. I just read a thread by a hambeast trying to get into shape. Part of the "exercise" is walking 30 min a few times a week. Do you realize how little that is? People used to play tennis for hours. Remember tennis?

And litter is the big hallmark of the era? There isn't litter now? Maybe if you got out of your basement you would see it.

Ugly decor? Really? Are you unable to slop some paint on the walls? We had a few bad years of Carter but at least we were "allowed" to speak out about them, it was only a few years. How long have we been hearing about racism racism racism sexism genders trannies, and now have come to the point we have a president that falls asleep, poops himself, and refuses to answer questions. We are censored from commenting.  We have an open border with turd worlders from all over the world come as citizens live in the streets.

Do you think this is going to go away in a few years?  Our country is 30 something in math and science, china is first. Maybe it's a good thing they are making the world's supplies, we sure aren't able to do it anymore. Look at how many college grads don't know how many stars are on the flag, how many states there are, the Berlin wall.

Fortunately we took down all those pesky historical monuments, it's not like anyone remembers their significance.

I've noticed as the membership gets younger the topics get stupider. Why does ice float?  Really?

Is it the black national anthem you like so much? The "diversity" hiring? The awesome technology that can account for where people were at any given time and arrest them if where they were is not approved even though it was a perfectly legal place to be?

Of course this only goes so far, for some reason this technology can't be used to solve actual crime.

Oh I forgot, there is no crime anymore. As it turns out diversity really was our strength.

It wasn't a thing when I was a teen but then I was actually alive during the era everyone seems to think they know so much about.