What a time to be alive. Cars in 2023 suck. Yes we have a handful of rippers, but now we have more SUV than cars. And cars we do have, got NO style. All look the same. Back when ANYONE could afford a car, home, life. Men were men, women were women and we cared more about manners, respect than gender pronouns.
Walk to the school bus would see 70 rs ss camaro 7 months later it's park at mom and dad's house same car he dated and married my sister. Now I own the car. Awesome Camaro
WiSH new cars and trucks was still cool😮 But Realty is there Not. Cause times changing technology is improving a different generation everybody expects confuse 🤬 technology to do the work foR tHeM different GENeRation computer dorks better known AS Millennials
Had my share of 60's and 70's muscle cars...'66 Malibu, 69 Javelin SST, '70 Charger 500, '70 Torino GT and still have a '70 AMX...all which I could simply pop the hood and change spark plugs and adjust points with a Sears dwell meter and a screwdriver...the '70 Dodge Challenger commercial was always my favorite..."Boy you in a heap of trouble...racing tires, racing stripes and I suppose that is a reconverted lawnmower motor"....thanks for sharing.
I owned a '70 Chally RT440, also an IROC Camaro, Mustang GT, '68 Buick GS400, and a real sleeper; a '64 Rambler Ambassador GT that had a Packard 327, duals, posi, 3.73 etc. Running these cars in the late 60's early 70's was so much fun, very little traffic or cops. Nobody wanted their muscle cars any more and sold them dirt cheap to ius kids. It was a great time to be young, these cars are hugely priced now!
These adds would cause a woman's modern day protest movement in 2024 lol. These are great, I wish we still had adds like these. You don't see American car ads on TV anymore, just local dealership ads
I had a few of the 1960's model that were my favorites though, I never had them in my years. Dodge Charger - 1969; Olds 4-4-2 for 1966; Chevy's 1969 Camaro "Indy 500" pace car; and the Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am of 1969. 1969 Dodge Super Bee was a favorite too. All these models were my "hot cars" I wish I had back then...even now. Of course...I was a teen back then and my folks had only American Motors Ramblers. (Not a "hot car" back then) "Okay boy...out of the car." ..."Now look boy...I know a race car when I see one!" "Elliot!?" These "boys" back then didn't like the girls like they "supposedly" like the "hot cars". Humm...something is wrong here.
Hey, don't feel bad, In the summer of 1969, I bought my first car when I was 15, being a minor Dad didn't approve of my first few picks, so I too wound up with a used '64 Rambler for $385. I shopped carefully, it had a 327 4bbl Packard engine, dual exhaust, GM posi rear end, a Ford Motocraft distributot. It really was an American Motor! Being a Rambler, it had some odd options including a strange spring reverb factory radio, bucket seats that folded into beds and, of cousr, Weather Eye.
Not everyone had the hot cars but the body styles were there with 4s, 6s, and V8s as well as some had the bigger blocks. I remember as a kid playing the game of guess the model and year and listening to hear the motor to guess what it was. If you were lucky you spotted a badge and got all excited and claim out loud what you just seen. Seat belts were tucked down into the bottom of the seats while the kids were standing or kneeling on the seats and being screamed at to sit and calm down at times. Fastbacks with big windows were a place to lay down and be warmed by the sun or sleep under and no one bothered you. Miss the station wagons with the reverse seating as well. Style was important but now not many children can identify what they are riding in or care.
anyone else remember a late 60's early 70's commercial, might of been a Javalin or AMX, where father and son are looking at all the performance/racing upgrades the son did to his car?
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Mobile animated indicators in the late '60s? Mercury beat Audi by 50 years. There was also a couple of themes in folding rear seats and concealed headlights. A bit like when Opera windows first appeared on the Monte Carlo. The next thing you know they all had them.
This mussel car trend was targeting the World War 2 generation. The cars were designed to travel the Eisenhower highway system. The availability of these cars to the average American was emphasized during the Cold War when Communists would never contemplate owning such personal possessions. This was nostalgic for me as my first two vehicles were; Ford 1971 sedan 351 engine, and a 1973 Chevy Nova SS 350 small block.
They were aimed at baby boomers, the children of the World War II generation. You might be thinking of hot rods. Also, it's muscle. Mussels are shellfish.
As a General, Eisenhower saw the already existing Autobahn while in Germany during WWII and realized the USA needed similar quality highways for moving ICBMs (InterContinental Ballistic Missiles) around quickly... and the public also loved them... of course, in the USA, nuclear ICBMs are now considered obsolete technology... replaced by smaller missiles on planes, ships, and submarines... many located closer to their targets... Back in those days, any high school kid with an after school or weekend job could afford the payments on a muscle car if his parents would sign for the loan... Democrat/Carter/Biden inflation of car prices killed off that dream...
Those were great looking cars back then, but the performance is no match for today. Hell, my cargo van handles better than those did then and I owned a few, starting with a 62 impala Great collection 👍TY❕️
new cars rust on the lot. Yes they are better in speed, handling and keeping urr tush warm in winter but then we could all afford them, modify them, and most things about owning was cheaper. Now 1200 water pump replacement like a equinox. No cab off to fix engine like ford diesel, no we can't get that trans like a 15 ram 2500, no computer got a bug in its butt so cars won't start or will but on limp mode, and now if u punch it and spin tires it'll cut gas. Yes there's a few like demon, stang, Tesla but style sucks. I mean BMW, Tesla u gotta pay to keep standard features. Like can u imagine in 1970 if 6 months after buying urr chevelle they said were taking 4 spark plugs from u and we need 15$ a month for you tge owner to have them back. I love cars. My 1st real true love was looking at books and traders at all the classics in 80s. It's either in urr blood or not. But today's cars just don't do it for me. Like watching a muck bang, or looking a playboy back then. I'll take the playboy. Now morbidly obese is sexy, and gender is on a spectrum. Wtf happened? Did the world end and common sense is gone? When our Gov asks professional women what is a woman and most can't answer, we effed up somewhere. Ask any 4 yr old back then what is a girl and I bet they know. Today were lost. Thought tech would make us so much smarter. Made us fat, dumb and on the retarded spectrum. I feel bad for ppl 60 or over. I thought life's changed so much since early 80s. Really changed since early 60s. holy catshit batman.
You must love in a snow belt state. By 1976, a lot of mid, and early 1960s cars were already rotted out by being driven in the snow, so yeah, understandable why you don't remember these!
incredible how in the American commercials they always break down european imported cars. But when selling homegrown American musclecars they point out they are designed after European ideas and standards. They actually say European cars suck and are horrible but we design our own cars after European technical standards.
How odd that GM would have an Oklahoma centric commercial - why ? implying you want to get out of OK and get to CA ASAP ? Obviously in the creator of the commercials mind the 'horizon' is CA and you want to get there ASAP - how racist