Preferably production modelsPost 'em b/o/ys
>>28197521Why were american cars so ugly in the 70s? 60s cars looked so good, what happened?
>>28197743Have people just collectively lost their good taste?
>>28197743(((Regulations)))Cars still looked good, the "car" as a fun and customizable thing for the everyman fully died around 1979-1986 and never truly recovered, we've been stuck with shitpods ever since...and now they're trying to take away the specialized fun options that do remain
>>28197753its just the transitional period between the 80s box and the 60s curve. That being said my favorite Charger is the 1975 Cordoba looking thing, it just works for me. It was also a time of peak visual aesthetic
GM designers were allowed to get a little nuts, after '70. Probably to take the sting out of the detuned/smoggified engines.
>>28197521This looks like missing link between 60s muscle cars and 80s landyachts
I think this is technically 80s, but it still fits with the aesthetic imo
>>28197541Twingos older uncle from the US.
>>28197521>those bumpershaha what? I can't take anything from that era seriously.
>>28198264I wonder if '72 monte bumpers could be made to fit itYou'd want to doll them up with rubber strips to keep the look but it could really use tighter bumpers for being such a special car, even the bumpers off a colonnade regal would've been better
>>28197851Malaise era GM is underrated as fuck.
>>28197743in the 70s they were allowed more headlamp combinations including square ones so they expected them to carry their designs to look not like the old onesin hindsight, they look more dated than the 60s models, but back then square lights were all the rage
>>28197951>Proudly advertising 4 speed manual as a feature in 76. How embarrassing. Even budget shitboxes like the corolla had a 5 speed since 1970.
>>28198442You shit your filthy whore mouth!
>>28197743>60s cars looked so good
>>28198552Every time period had bad looking cars. We could post exceptions all day long.
>>281977435mph bumper regulations American makes, especially Ford, thought that if they made the front ends of the cars fucking hideous with huge spring loaded bumpers the market would react. Unfortunately people didn't care and kept buying em. GM and Chrysler embraced it and designed their front ends to the regulations which is why everything got very "classy" and Baroque after being jet-inspired for 30 years.
>>28197521>1970's pseudo-futurismDelivered
>>28198687In the first half of sixties it was more challenging to find a good looking car.
>>28198761You meant to post this
>>28198761It's missing the required elements tho.
>>28198368NOT ANYMORE KEKPeople want 30 grand for some of these GM barges nowWhy would I pay that when I could pick up a '69 c3 4spd for less?
>>28197743Malaise era economics, over regulation, and cultural decline.
>>28198552the rear transition is a lil weird but i like it overall, never having seen one before
>>28198687early 60s still had influences from the 50s so they looked rather awful
>>28197743Niggers got the vote.
>>28201204Cordoba looks better.
>>28198442American cars didn't really need so many gears. You needed them in foreign cars because of the lower torque smaller engines but America has never taxed cars by engine displacement so there was never a desire to have a small engine that required so many gears to try and compensate.
>>28201415I still don't know what the driving procedure was before the 55 mph speed limitWhat's your game plan, turn 4k RPM all day long going down the freeway at 70?...and get 10 miles per gallon?Real nice on that non-synthetic motor oil tooAnd how about the bastards with 4:11 gearing?
>>28201444there's this 70s hotrod boomer guy I know and that's pretty much how he operates with his cars. I forget what car it was but he was saying he was constantly pedal to the floor at 6k rpm because the car maxed out at 80 mph. Eventually it started knocking and he had to get rid of it. I think back in those days there was an understanding (just as there is today) that the first owner was only going to keep the car for maybe 30k miles. Cars were simpler and just about everybody knew how to work on them. it wasn't out of the question for a regular guy to rebuild his own engine but could the average guy today rebuild a brand new engine with all the computers and stuff? it's possible but it's a much taller order.
