Unwanted cars of the 70's. Post yours!

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My parents bought a new 1976 Mercury Monarch 2 door coupe in March '76 .
351 Windsor ; silver with cranberry red interior and a silver landau top .

The paint faded within a couple of years ( 70's 2-stage paint + silver + harsh southwest U.S. climate = disaster ) , but that's only because it was garaged for the most part .

All of the shitty plastic nobs and switches broke .

The transmission was garbage ( C5 ? not sure ... ) .

The final blow was when the steering coupler gave-out . It was discontinued ...
... as early as 1982 !!
Smooth move there , FoMoCo !
A safety item was discontinued !!

Now , I'm NOT anti-Ford by any means , but I AM anti-cheap assed business practises !!

Ostensibly , the 1970's were truly the dark ages .
Energy crises .
Fuel shortages ( TWICE !! ) .
Droughts .
Inflation .
Jerry Brown .
Jimmy Carter .
Emissions standards .

I like that '73 Cutlass in the thread's opening topic !
I've always liked the so-called "Colonade" [sp?] body styles of '73 - '77 . There's a super clean '73 442 in my town .
 
I had a 4 door Volare with a 318,owned for 2 weeks,it pissed me off so much,I dragged it to the scrappers for a case of beer.:munky2:
 
NukeSec1 said:
Most of you here have owned one at one point in your life (and may still have it). That unwanted 70's car that no one wants. Here is mine. 1973 Olds Cutlass Supreme, 32K original miles. Yes, I still have it.
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A friend of mine has a 73 Olds Cutlass S, (Supreme?) with a 455 auto. How rare are they to have a big block? It looks just like yours, but its maroon coloured.
 
I had a pinto can't rember what year body was in good shape but slowwww also had a 74 toyota corolla body in good shape but slowwwww. So i thru a 400 small block in the toyota and a 351 in the pinto problem solved. Also had a 69 olds cutlass paid 50 bucks for it never finished it. Had a ford ranger pickup decent shape but slowwww did not throw a v8 in this one lost them all in a divorce years ago.
 
Mine was a 75 Olds 442. It was my daily driver for 11 years and I raced it in street tire class at my local 1/4 mile track on the weekends. The car was bone stock with a 350/T-350 combo. It weighed a bit over 4100 lbs with me in it and it ran consistant 15.8's @ 85 MPH all day long. Not bad for a factory HP rating of 160. Best damn car I ever had and still regret selling to buy my 55 Chevy project which is long gone now.

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A website devoted to the 7.8:1 compression, tape stripe and spoilered econo-box, decal muscle car and land barge era.....

Behold, Smog-Era.com......

http://smog-era.com/
 
'75 Mustang II. It was such a POS, I didn't even take a pic of it. Rust colored, 2.3L 4 banger w/4 speed. Such a piece of crap, had no compression at all. I could start that damn thing in gear w/o the clutch. I still give my mother **** about it to this day. (came home from H.S to find it in the driveway, asked who's POS it was, Yours she says! Then I had to pay her back for it).
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You too? I was taken and shown a 74 Mustang and told I was going to buy it from a girlfriend of my mothers. The damn thing couldn't get out of it's own way. It was a whooping 3 months later when the head gasket blew.
At the time I wanted to buy a 68 Chevy 2 from an old lady up the street. She told me $200 and it was mine.
Mom's girlfriend needed some cash, sooooooooo.
 
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