Top 10 Longest American Cars of the 1970s (land yachts) 

Thank you for this comment man. I hope more people read it.

@@GreenHawkDrive Wow, awesome, although notoriety from u is the best! You put together gr8 videos! I bet u wish u could've lived back then but it wasn't so dif from the '90s!

Wait a min, Odessa is also a city/town in Texas?

@@Average_Car_Lover Yes just down a spell from Midland. Big Springs a ways a little further NE

"...the fuzz." Ain't heard THAT word in awhile.😁😁

My 69 Fury was so smooth. As my brother said the first time he drove it. 'It's like gliding down the highway on a sofa'

That the Christine year ?

@@jadeddragon4254 Christine was a 1958 Fury.

One of the reasons I like to watch the 70s Cop shows. So many cool cars.

How did ppl park these cars in the garage? Or street parking?

@@Wasabi9111 Pretty easy - you park it just like any other car - assuming the garage is wide enough and long enough!

@kevinw1554 : Grew up with Chryslers. Had a 59 Windsor ( Canadian version of the Newport), a '62 Newport, a 65 New Yorker, a 66 Imperial LeBaron, a 72 Imperial, then a 66 Imperial again. The original 66 Imperial was a WAY better car than the 72,( it has the 440 with twin 4 bbls, dual AC, dual heat, 6-way power front bucket seats, real wood trim and a host of other rare features) which is why my Dad bough the second 66 when it became available (it didn't have all the extras, though).. Lastly was a smaller 76 Imperial ( it was OK, but not great). All of these cars were fantastic, and way better quality that anything that GM and Ford produced ( except for some of the Lincolns). Wish I could afford another 66 Lebaron!

@@richardpare3538 both my in laws and I have houses built in the 50s and the garage doors are so so narrow they barely fit modern compact cars, let along the land yachts from the 50s. I frequently have to deal w competitive street parking in Manhattan. I usually drive my compact car vs my bigger car into the city bc of the tight parking space. So I don’t know how ppl were able to do it in the past w the land yachts. But I also guess the streets weren’t congested back then.

Love them my parents had 72 Cadillac couple de ville 72 eldorado 1958 continental

Yes...My Grandparents purchased a White 1968 Cadillac Coup DeVille ...it was the First year Cadillac went to the huge 472 V8 and the Switch Pitch Torque converter on the Caddys special Turbo 400 transmission.....what a car.

472 v8 in a Cadillac coupe.. those were the days.

Was your mother’s husband not your father or stepfather?

​@@hesseldijkstra5327 lol!

Does size matter 😊

My Dad's '69 Ninety-eight: get in it on a three day weekend Friday afternoon, drive 270+ miles to Vegas and get there more rested and relaxed than when you got in. A two door with doors that weighed more than my MG Midget.

Right?!? Pull the front seat of my 75' Impala 4-door all the way forward and the back seat became a small living room!

Hahah...True. My parents had a 1969 225 Electra 4 door. I remember that car, as a kid - it was HUGE; so big in fact, it would not fit in (the very big/deep) garage. True LAND YACHT

Hahaha Hahaha yeah right ✅️ 🤣 big bad Buick love em .OUT OF THE WAY EVERYBODY HERE'S COMES THE BUICK

You must have been hot 😊

I had a 1971 Electra 225

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i also put 7 girls in the back of my Buik lesabre and inside on the seats put more 8 ,when the city i live become a big university campus, normally at 4.30 in the morning to travel to a 200 meters up road to the main market café´s that opened at 5 in the morning, to drink more and eat, to wake up or coke or genebra if not gin a express cofee a slice of the lemon´s peel yellow ,cinamon and sugar lot´s of it,then mix it well , try it it´s perfect to end a night of drinking

That is so insane I love it.

Had 20 people in my 65 New Yorker once (talk bout everyone being squished!), by thankfully never tried that with the bigger 66 LeBaron!

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The famous "Deuce and a Quarter" Electra 225.

Buik was my family prefered brand all had Buiks, i love the coupés

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Had a '66 Monaco, 383 factory 4 spd manual. Burgundy with probably one of the most beautiful interiors I've ever seen in my 72 years and estimated 50+ cars I've owned. Only thing close was a '69 Caprice Classic, 350, 300 horse factory 4 spd that had a greenish color that's indescribable.

My first car was 1969 Chrysler Newport. It was a huge but well built car. 😊😅

We Boomers HAD to be good drivers. I can still parallel park with the best of them. Why not? I grew up putting a 20-foot car in its space with ease. These 70s cars were once familiar-looking, but I do have to laugh at them now. Wish all people could experience those velvet rides, though.

I figured, thank you

And Oldsmobile and Pontiac are gone. I can only imagine what their cars would have looked like today.

I always thought the the Olds were a better quality car than the Buicks.

@@richardpare3538 Oldsmobile was slightly below Buick. You can look back at the options available and trim levels, usually Oldsmobile's highest trim level was about equivalent to Buicks second highest tier.

Yep! I said the same thing.

Wow, that means a lot. Thank you both for watching.

@@GreenHawkDrive Memory lane is always a nice drive.

You're right about the prices at the time. In today's money, they would be very high.

More than that in the 70s man, at least the Mark V😂

I think you would be clear that it meant in today's money but you're right he probably should state "in today's money" that would be hundreds of thousands of dollars.

One day back in 1975, Dad flew over to Atlanta from Charleston and drove back with a used silver Cartier edition Mark IV. It had a red interior and was loaded. I remember him telling me it had about 3000 miles on it, and he wrote a check for $15,500.00. He even ordered two small metal plates that were about an inch and a half square with his initials embossed in ceramic that we stuck on the doors. I was a goofy teen, and I put them on too quickly and one side was about an inch lower than the other side. He was excited to have the car and told me he didn’t care about the misplacement. I thought the initials were tacky, but he liked them. He had a Mark III before this car and also had about 4 or 5 Mercedes. The Lincoln was his road car while the Mercedes were better around town with their balanced handling. Across the street, my schoolmate’s dad had a New Yorker. I rode in the back and enjoyed the stereophonic sound. Another classmate had a Continental. Later on, mom had several Volvos. Carwise, we were spoiled.

When I started driving around 1969, gas was around 35 cents per gallon (3.7854 liters), so it didn't matter if these guzzled gas. But surprisingly, the Cadillac De Ville could get 19 MPG with a 472 cubic inch engine (later bumped up to ~502 cubic inches), with conservative highway driving, as could the large Ford/Mercury cars with the more economical 390 cu in. engine.. They were fun to drive, but not exactly sporty, like the early BMWs I used to drive. The intermediate size muscle cars were my favorite - handling was pretty good, and the power was kick ass. The brakes were their biggest shortcoming, as they continued using drum brakes for WAY too long. Race modified 1963 427 Ford Galaxie ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p-dl1_V8yds.html funny as hell to see a land yacht racing with imports and doing well. (There's nothing like cubic inches to make up for a shortfall in braking and nimble handling :)

I own a 1965 Imperial Crown Coupe. Couldn't agree more!

Thank you as always man

My maternal grandddad's next to last car was a 73 Polara. It remains one of only three Chrysler made products that I would ever own. His was an ugly light green color but rode very smoothly. The rear differential was going to need to be rebuilt and he decided the car was not worth the expense. He bought a two year old 1983 Chevrolet Malibu and the Dodge sat in the yard with a For Sale sign in the windshield for a brief time until it sold. I remember many early summer morning trips to the lake in that old Dodge to spend as much of the day fishing as we could until the south west Georgia heat just became unbearable.

Vw bus was the original minivan

Those big station wagons were fantastic for hauling just about everything you owned! No one makes real wagons anymore, unfortunately.

Thank you man😎

i use to have lunch while driving some turns my right seat company made them

Yeah, "Bertha Butt--she was one of the Butt sisters." Love it. We lived in great times.

Looks are subjective. I think they look ridiculous. I have been in and driven some of these yachts. The legroom is poor for something so big, and they ride like a waterbed in an earthquake. As for the handling, well it's laughable.

@@rasichap LOL. Which Imperials did you drive and what year?

@@BillMcDevitt-yg8yr never drove one but still awesome

@@petestaint8312 I have been in a '73 an happily own a '65. Great cars!

That’s hilarious😂😂😂 Thank you as always man:)

@GreenHawkDrive You are quite welcome! I recall seeing many of what you showed as a kid in the 80s...Mainly parked where Seniors frequent. Didn't really see those Imperials though.

The Imperials were fantastic cars, but their quality really went down when they went to the "fuselage" shaping in 69.

In the late 80's, I was stationed with a guy who had one of these. Easily fit 7 people in this with room to spare. Since it was front wheel drive, it actually was great in the snow.

I appreciate your bringing this to my attention

@@GreenHawkDrive Pontiac also had its own unique 455 🤓

The V8 engines may have been different but the platform was the same.

@@GreenHawkDrive And Cadillac had a 500 ci. Engine. [ that’s basically an 8.2 Liter.😮

Good point here, the platform and basic designs though were basically identical. Worth noting is the fact that later on GM pulled the plug on just what you mentioned with their badge swapping program in an effort to improve profits and competitiveness. It angered customers who discovered for example their Buick had an engine that was shared with Pontiac, Chevrolet and Oldsmodile.

Wave at him for me!

Loved the ones we had!

There is no American made car with the designation of MK anything prior to 2007. Lincoln started using that MK designation until 2007.

@@styldsteel1 I believe they used "MK" as an abbreviation for "Mark" as in Mark 5.

@@styldsteel1 You ever heard of just abbreviating without a mandate from an OEM? You are reading way too much into this. Go relax and get off other peoples backs for an insignificant comment on RU-vid.

@@styldsteel1 Dude it's not laziness, just admit that your overhyping this shit. I think I know why to. You just trolling and you think it's funny when actually it makes you look like a huge AH! Stop your BS and relax!

i was also a american car fan and in 78 me and a dutch friend started to buy cars in L.A. where we have a friend and at start we were afraid of not selling any but a day before returning to europe a friend who did the office work told us if we could get more because the ones bought and listed were all sold and we bought more and stayed there two weeks more, mainly at the time all wanted camaro´s or firebirds like in smokey and the bandit or similar name with burt reynolds and sara field(not surer of her name)also the three dukes car the dodge charger ,i remenberb having a 7.0L or around it in black that kept it two years before selling and was a nice car with manual gears ,the main problem when buying cars was the dificultie of finding them with manual gears but the only problem were the turns ,also kept a white camaro ,split bumpers all in white with blue windows and the rearview mirrors on the doors were sporty and also white as the body and it´s almost the same as the firebird or trans am from the same year , one that i still own is a mercury cougar manual from 1969 with a 7.0L engine ,not sure but i think it was a RX 7 all black with inside in dark red suede or similar material seats ,the shape by the sides made remenber the coupé of the 65 mustang but bigger, the one i bought to myself ,still have 3 coupés from 67 pontiacs ,the lemans ,the grandprix convertible(with automatic gears), and the boneville ,who have a lot of similar parts and i think the same chassi , the Le mans is golden brown with white vinil top, the grandprix is white with black top and the boneville blue(sea blue, not sure what is called in english) with black vinil top,from Buik i have a lesabre 71 with black hardtop in vinil ,manual and the colour is a dry shade of green metalic Paint not sure what is called in english or maybe soft green and gold metalized paint, most of the cars i have are from 59 to 74 this U.S. cars i have a lot others mainly mercedes, bmw´s ,alfa-romeus , lancias and porshes(who were in late 80´s hated ,don´t know why ,have 7 that costed me in mint condition around what today is 500€ except a 911 turbo from 83 that cost me in 91 what today is 2.500€ also have some fords but european models till 91, this was cars that i paid almost next to nothing or what today is almost 100€ ,the cars were given to me or sold by families friends of my family as their sons didn´t want old cars and they didn´t had a place to store them, also have some separates that are one from it´s brand like the inocenti detomaso or the fiat 131 coupé or the peugeot 504 coupé from 1972 ,also a citroen DS21 with 2.273 cc´s(or close) engine like in the DS 19 GT model, also have a more modern 3.0L V6 of the citroen XM ,early 90´s, this last car was one of those everybody should try it, it lights up at night like a christmas tree and it starts to lift of but doesn´t fly only extremelly confortable, and off road capable as it as several heights positions (it as the same hidraulic system as the DS),my main hobby either than hi-fi components and music, some colect stamps and coins ,i have them also but were from my father and they sure are big

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Thank you man. What an interesting slogan, at least from my age, it’s so fascinating learning about yalls past

Im 65 years old. My uncle was an old car daddy, long deceased...but he owned many buick lasabres.

One of their slogans also used to be "Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick"

The 5 mph bumper standard was subsequently dropped as the 2.5 mph front and rear was permitted in the 1990s and continues into the 2024 models.

I wish they had continued to this day, then we wouldn't be driving cars capped with plastic at both ends that shatters at the slightest impact... I saw a rerun of Rockford the other night, and a mid-70s LTD smacked into a dumpster hard enough to push it back 10 ft, and the front end had no apparent damage.

The bumper requirements were reduced to 2.5 front and rear in 1982.

⁠@@marko7843 One nice thing about the old chrome bumpers, especially with the rubber bumperettes, was that you could push a stalled vehicle out of the road. Nowadays nobody will risk cracking/scratching their plastic bumper.

@@AFTER_MIDNITE My oldest sister t-boned a cop cruiser who slid thru an intersection in the middle of a snow storm. Totaled the cop car, but only tweaked sideways one of the bumperetts, which I straightened out easily by hand.

Excellent car at that time!

I had a 73 two door and man were those doors long

There were no 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood 2 doors, the Fleetwood coupe didn't come out until 1980 - 84.

Do you know all of the GM hierarchy? The Buick was referred to as the doctor's car🩺

Thank you, me too!

Same. Love the cars and the videos!

Thank you brother😎

Thank you

My experience too as I saw them new!

I'm not from the states, but wasn't caddy pure luxury, Buick kind of a performance luxury brand, Pontiac more sporty and performance orientated than Buick and chevy a blue collar marque? Buick was more of a Mercedes and Pontiac more like BMW, although those brands have drifted away from their old images.

Till you try turning a bend at speed never mind the hilarious mpg

Yes luxury and STYLE not like modern crap

Thank you man, glad you liked it:)

Thank you man😎

Thank you for the insight, I appreciate it man

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That was my mistake, I couldn’t tell the difference

​@@GreenHawkDrivesurely u jest! The U. S. version has hidden headlamps, bloated body with rear "skirts" and a baroque applique in between the taillights! I much preferred the other makes to Ford back then as their style was too formal. I mean, have u seen the Mustang II?😅

I appreciate that man, thank you! When I said 100,000 and 85,000, those numbers are adjusted for inflation😅

@@GreenHawkDrive Ye$, that make$ more $en$e ...

Good suggestion, we shall see!

The series 75 was the limousine cadillac so it wouldn't have counted in this list

@@chrislong8986 I'm seeing it be classified as a "formal sedan" whatever that is

What’s the difference?

It’s not an American car; the title of the video. Additionally, it appears in a segment about Mercurys

Made by Ford's Australian division. With 302 or 351 Cleveland engines. Aussie cars from the big 3 usually had us styling traits, but were different cars

Right on man😂

I appreciate that man. Thank you for posting that out.

Thank you man! I agree

I appreciate that man, thank you

Correction : it was EXACTLY 20 feet long , I had the identical car and measured it with a buddy and tape measure to both ends .

Blinkers on top of the front fenders?

@@russrichards6685 yes , the shape of a house , lol .

My parents inherited what I believe was a 68 Chrysler New Yorker in the early 80s. Completely cherry. Could have played ping pong in the back seat. I was so embarrassed to go anywhere in it. When we sold it we got a Toyota Tercel. Quite the difference. lol.

I appreciate that man